Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Clive DilnotI. Key Themes -- Introduction -- 1. What is Design? -- 2. Commerce or Culture? Industrialization and Design -- 3. Design from the Standpoint of Economics/Economics -- from the Standpoint of DesignII. Design in History & the History of Design -- Introduction -- (A) Designing and Making in the Pre-Industrial World -- 4. Some Lessons of Design History -- 5. Crafts, Commerce, Industry -- 6. Chinese Design: What Can We Learn from the Past? -- 7. Three moments in the History of Making: Nomads, Traders, Slaves -- (B) Designing in the Industrial World -- 8. The 'American System' and Mass Production -- 9. Writing the History of Design in the Industrial World -- 10. The Growth of Industrial Design in Japan -- (C) Design in Germany 1870-1945 -- 11. Government Policy & German Design 1870-1918 -- 12. The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel -- 13. Modernism and Archaism in Design in the Third Reich III. Design, Business, Economics -- Introduction -- (A) Corporate design strategies -- Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl: Design between Economics and Practice -- 14. GM: The Price of Corporate Arrogance -- 15. Everything Changes, Nothing Alters -- 16. Design Management in Phillips in the 1980s -- 17. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: How RCA is using -- Design as a Strategic Tool -- 18. Current and Future Demands on Hong Kong Designers -- (B) National Design Policies -- Carlos Texeiria: John Heskett and design policy -- 19. National Design Policy and Economic Change -- 20. Learning from Germany's Integrated Design Policy -- 21. Design and Industry in China -- 22. A Design Policy for the UK: Three Suggestions -- (C) Creating Value by Design -- Tore Kristensen: John Heskett's contribution to the business -- and economics of design -- 23. Creative Destruction: The Nature and Consequences -- of Change through Design -- 24. Product Integrity -- 25. Cultural Human Factors -- 26: Creating Economic Value by DesignIV. Reflections -- Introduction -- 27. Past, Present and Future in Design -- 28. Reflections on Design and Hong Kong -- 29. On WritingV. Last Words -- 30. Can the Centre Hold?List of acronyms -- Contributors -- Permissions and Acknowledgments -- Appendix: A first bibliography of John Heskett's published work -- Index.

"A John Heskett Reader brings together key selected writings from the work of the design historian John Heskett. It will be edited and introduced by Clive Dilnot. John Heskett was a pioneering design historian whose work was foundational for the study of industrial design and the relationship between design, design policy, and economic value. Heskett was British but lived and taught in the United States and Hong Kong for a number of years. The Reader represents the range of Heskett's contribution to the field of design history and key concerns in his work: the relationship between design and economic value; design in history and the history of design; design policy, and design and economics. The anthology includes unpublished, hard to access and out-of-print material as well as extracts from classic and foundational works by Heskett. Included are major extracts from two unpublished books: 'Crafts, Commerce and Industry' and 'Economic Value of Design', which show Heskett's interest in exploring design and making and their relationship to economic value across the entirety of human history. Extracts are grouped into thematic sections with editorial introductions written by Clive Dilnott and other leading design historians"--