{"product_id":"what-was-design","title":"What was design?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat was design?\u003c\/em\u003e is a quick starter to one of modernity’s most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, “design” has been subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile answers to the question “What is design?” are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective. This book looks back, presenting a century of design thinking in its most compact form: a collection of bold quotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest\u003c\/em\u003e pits 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists, and philosophers against one another. The result is a web of radical short-form definitions that remain strikingly contradictory in their references. This selection is accompanied by an essay from Florian Walzel, exploring the deeper reasons behind the conceptual ambiguity of design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Florian Walzel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Paul Jürgens \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Slanted Publishers, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 152 pages, offset with spot colors, 4.72 × 7.48 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-3-69-202005-1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48605899391230,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/Whatwasdesign.jpg?v=1784922583","url":"https:\/\/draw-down.com\/products\/what-was-design","provider":"Draw Down","version":"1.0","type":"link"}