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Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance

By Per Mollerup
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$32.95
By Per Mollerup
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How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.

Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defi...

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