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Terms and conditions applyTransport Design: A Travel History
Gregory Votolato
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Format: Book
Pages: 239
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Date Published: Sep 2007
Stock Code: 60891
Binding: Paperback
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Transport Design is the first design history to investigate the experience of travel, analysing the vehicle from the passengers' and drivers' points of view. The book takes us inside a wide range of vehicles, from buses and limousines, to dugout canoes and superferries, to aircraft such as the Graf Zeppelin and the Apollo space craft. Organised in three parts - air, land, and sea - Transport Design shows how the design of a vehicle shapes our experience of the journey, from home to work, or from the earth to the stars. In an authoritative yet accessible style, it explores the relationship between mass transportation and the travel experience, taking into account the pressures of global commerce and global warming, and argues for a radical reappraisal of how and why we travel.
Themes explored include comfort, safety, technology, style, economics, customisation and entertainment, acknowledging along the way the contributions of important individuals. Apparent banalities, such as the travel seat, are revealed as having great significance. From Theodore Woodruff's 19th century patented sleeping couch for railway passengers and Marc Newson's sleeping pods for long-haul flyers to today's ergonomically contoured and electronically adjustable car seats, furniture designed for transportation has consistently led the furnishings of homes and offices in the technology they employ to provide personally tailored comfort, the Holy Grail of transport design. This book provides an insightful, readable, and entertaining account of two centuries of travel design, as well as speculation on its future direction.
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