Robin Roy (UK Open University)

Broschiertes Buch

Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design

The Evolution and Impacts of Successful Products

Beschreibung

Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design will be a resource for design professionals, design students and all practitioners of sustainabilty in this arena. It creates a new understanding of the theories behind product evolution and shows the possible future of product design to acheive a more sustainable consumer system.

Autor

Robin Roy is Emeritus Professor of Design and Environment at the Open University. Since joining the OU in 1971 as one of the first lecturers in Design, he has chaired and contributed to many OU courses on design, innovation, energy and environment, most recently Design Essentials; Innovation: Designing for change; and Environment: Journeys through a changing world. In 1979, he founded the Design Innovation Group to research design and innovation management and sustainable design. He has published many books, book chapters, papers and articles on topics ranging from design creativity and the successful management of new product development to environmentally sustainable education systems and consumer adoption of low and zero carbon technologies. He is a Fellow and Council member of the Design Research Society, a former Director of Carbon Connections Ltd. and a Trustee of Powerful Information, a local international development charity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415869980
• ISBN-10: 0415869986
• Artikelnr.: 42741270