TY  - GEN
AU  - Boradkar, Prasad 
TI  - Designing things: a critical introduction to the culture of objects
SN  - 9781845204273
U1  - 745.401 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Berg
N2  - CONTENT
List of Illustrations	vii
Introduction	1
1    Theorizing Things: Disciplinary Diversity in Thinking about Objects	17
2    Valued Possessions: The Worth of Things	45
3    Making Things: Labor in Production	75
4    Producing Things: A History of Systems of Manufacture	103
5    Beautiful Things: The Aesthetics of Surfaces	127
6   The Greed Imperative: User Needs in Product Design	159
7    Planned Obsolescence: Unsustainable Consumption	179
8    Objects as Signs: What do Things Mean?	211
9    The Obsession of Possession: Fetish Objects	249
Conclusion	263
Notes	273
Bibliography                           	279
Acknowledgements	296
Index	298

ER  -