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Wear Your Chair: When Fashion Meets Interior Design
by Judith Griffin, Penny Collins

List Price: $62.00
©2007, 240 pp., illustrated, full color, hardcover, 8.5 x 11 (978-1-56367-581-2)

Book category: Design Foundations
Meet the authors: Judith Griffin • Penny Collins

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Design has become our means of personal expression, whether we're buying Martha Stewart sheets at Kmart, lining up for the latest Air Jordan sneakers or Manolo Blahnik pumps, or driving a Mini Cooper to our Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house. Wear Your Chair is dedicated to the proposition that all design disciplines are created equal--and all of them should be fun. They also overlap. The authors examine design history, trends, and ideas about creativity with the goal of expanding our understanding about how these overlaps work. We learn how influential designers work across many mediums and possess a design "tool kit": a respect for the past, an understanding of technology, the pursuit of creative and collaborative solutions, and a willingness to keep learning. We see how design, function, and form--from light fixtures to packaging to shoes--is grounded in innovation as well as a respect for the past. Aimed at design and fashion students as well as aficionados, this is a book about looking at the world without strict definitions--and about thinking outside of the box.

Instructor's Guide (PDF)

• CONTENTS

  • Wear Your What?
  • Where It All Starts: References and Influences
  • Sources of Design Inspiration
  • The Vocabulary of Design
  • More Than Meets the Eye: Surface Design, Pattern, and Motifs
  • Furniture and Fashion: How to Wear Your Chair
  • Inspiration from Textiles: Everything Old Is New Again
  • Trend Forecasting: Seeing What's Not There . . . Yet
  • Design and the Shopping Experience
  • When Life Became Style
  

  
  
• TEXT FEATURES

• Illustrations emphasizing the unification of design and fashion, from clothing and textiles to magazine ads, perfume bottles, furniture, and architecture
• Boxed features with articles and interviews with designers about their work
• Hundreds of additional sources
• Instructor's Guide provides general suggestions for teaching the course, including possible schedules for semester and quarter courses and advice about team teaching; discussion questions and activities are offered for each chapter
• Instructor's CD-ROM, contains articles for each chapter from professional and general interest publications to supplement the readings in the text