Markus Caspers

Hochschule Neu-Ulm · Department of Information Management (1)

Introduction to Project "Transformation Design – Creating Futures by Design as a Social Practice"

For a long time, car design was considered to be anonymous, the designers stood in the shadow of the perception of the design. This richly illustrated book captures the origin of a profession and maps the development of car design based on the career biographies of over 200 selected designers who contributed to the design of cars and many different...

History and theory of automotive Design are underdeveloped. And that though cars are the most produced, talked about and photographed consumer products since the early 1950ies. This book interrogates the struggle between design ethics and doctrines in contrast to the production and marketing induced doctrine of "styling". It draws the historic line...

Das Automobildesign gehört zu den wenig bearbeiteten Feldern innerhalb der Designgeschichte und der Designtheorie. Das ist umso eklatanter, als die Prozesse moderner, industrialisierter Gestaltung im Automobildesign zuerst entwickelt und perfektioniert werden und damit ein Designverständnis vorweg nehmen, das erst gegen Ende der 1960er Jahre in der...