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Schneider, Samantha Raye.

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Reading design: Exploring the skin of the product.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading design: Exploring the skin of the product./
Author:	Schneider, Samantha Raye.
Description:	166 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, page: 1866.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International43-06.
Subject:	Design and Decorative Arts. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1426637
ISBN:	0542103966

Reading design: Exploring the skin of the product.
Schneider, Samantha Raye.

Reading design: Exploring the skin of the product. - 166 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, page: 1866.

Thesis (M.S.D.)--Arizona State University, 2005.

Interaction typically starts with an inspection of the surface. This thesis contemplates abject surfaces as human skins, and provides a novel means of understanding their meanings. Physically, both product and human skins protect, conceal, and envelop the body. Theoretically, these skins act as communicative media for the expression of meaning. When modified through techniques of scarification, tattooing, or adornment, the human skin is thought to become an artifact. These techniques and the resulting skin-artifacts can be compared to the designs and surfaces of objects.

ISBN: 0542103966Subjects--Topical Terms:

1024640
Design and Decorative Arts.

Reading design: Exploring the skin of the product.
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520 $a Like modified human skin, the product-skin is used and displayed to express meanings of subcultural identity, values, and affiliation. Just as modifications are performed on the skin to illustrate and portray personal meanings and affiliations, product-skins are used as indicators of personal and group identity. In this process, aesthetic surfaces become second skins that communicate connotative and symbolic information to viewers.
520 $a Information transmitted from the product-skin can be analyzed and explored by designers to better understand issues of product use, adaptation, impact, and consumer behavior prior to the actual design process. This research has shown that although deeper meanings exist within the product-skin, consumers may not read these meanings without reference to the human skin, which in this study is considered to be the environmental context. Further study and documentation of how products are used to express elements of identity, values, and affiliation can contribute theoretical foundations to the production of useful, user-friendly, and desirable objects. This study is founded on an extensive literature review, a survey, case studies, and critical analysis. It demonstrates that in considering object surfaces in human terms, designers and critics may gain critical and useful information about their social and cultural significance.
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