# Design for the Real World

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- Book: [Design for the Real World](https://www.bookquiver.com/victor-papanek/design-for-the-real-world) ([Design for the Real World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/victor-papanek/design-for-the-real-world.md))
- Authors: [Victor Papanek](https://www.bookquiver.com/victor-papanek)
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0027-358-6
- Pages: 418
- Published: 1985-02-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Victor Papanek's lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from 'fetish objects for a wasteful society' towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design. Professor Papanek was a highly distinguished designer, educator, lecturer and writer, widely acknowledged for his visionary ideas on design theory. He was Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas at the time of his death in 1998.