Design Meets Disability - Table of Contents

April 2009
5 3/8 x 8, 336 pp., 114 color illus.
$29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-16255-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-16255-5

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Design Meets Disability
Graham Pullin

when the Eameses met leg splints		ix

thanks		xvii

introduction		1

initial tensions		11

	fashion meets discretion	13

	exploring means solving	39

	simple means universal	65

	identity means ability	87

	provocative meets sensitive	111

	feeling meets testing	135

	expression meets information	155

meetings with designers		181

	Tomoko Azumi meets step stools	184

	if Philippe Starck met bottom wipers	198

	if Jasper Morrison met wheelchairs	200

	Michael Marriott meets wheelchairs	202

	if Hussein Chalayan met robot arms	216

	Martin Bone meets prosthetic legs	218

	if Jonathan Ive met hearing aids	232

	if Paul Smith met hearing aids	234

	if Cutler and Gross met hearing aids	236

	Graphic Thought Facility meets braille	238

	if Tord Boontje met braille	252

	Crispin Jones meets watches for visually impaired people	254

	if Durrell Bishop met communication aids	268

	if Julius Popp met communication aids	268

	Andrew Cook meets communication aids	270

	if Dunne & Raby met memory aids	284

	if Stefan Sagmeister met accessibility signage	286

	Vexed meets wheelchair capes	288

conclusion		301

notes		309

photography credits		323

index		329

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