Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Its focus is on contemporary designed objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design and the role of the designer as key components and key challenges of the modern world.Featuring an impressive range of international case studies, ranging from examples of everyday design such as IKEA furniture and amateur graphic design, to the role of the design professional and the functioning of design within organisations, Design Culture interrogates what this emergent discipline is, its methodologies, its scope and its relationships with other fields of study. The volume's interdisciplinary approach brings fresh thinking to this fast-evolving field of study.

Includes a range of international case studies

Introducing Design CultureSection 1: Developing Design CultureIntroductionDesign Culturing: Making Design History Matter, Kjetil FallanTaste and Attunement: Design Culture as World Making, Ben HighmoreEmbedding Design in the Organisational Culture: Challenges and Perspectives, Alessandro Deserti and Francesca RizzoUse in Design Culture, Toke Riis EbbesenSection 2: Addressing Market and SocietyIntroductionA Brand for Everyone, Sara KristofferssonBuying into the Future: A Case Study of a Danish Brand of Fashionable Children's Clothing, Trine Brun PetersenThe Glowing Black of fritz-kola. Aestheticisation in Design Culture, Mads Nygaard FolkmannSection 3: Positioning Design ProfessionsIntroductionDesign Culture in the Sex Toy Industry: a new phenomenon, Judith GloverWorking from Home: Fashioning the Professional Designer in Britain, Leah ArmstrongOn the Professional and Everyday Design of Graphic Artifacts, Sarah OwensThe Fixing I: Repair as Prefigurative Politics, Gabriele OropalloSection 4: Locating Design CultureIntroductionSomething Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Relocating Kähler's brand heritage, Niels Peter SkouPerforming Turkish Design in Products, Collections and Exhibitions: Expanding the Archive, Seeking Depth, Harun KayganA Theoretical Straddle: Design Culture between National Structures and Transnational Networks, Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz and Katarina SerulusThe Challenges and Opportunities of introducing Design Culture in Jordan, Danah AbdullaEpilogue: Design Culture as PracticeIndex