Download or read book Principia Designae - Pre-Design, Design, and Post-Design written by Toshiharu Taura and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad design purview within the framework of “pre-design, design, and post-design” by focusing on the “motive of design,” which implies an underlying reason for the design of a product. The chapters are comprised of papers based on discussions at the “Design Research Leading Workshop” held in Nara, Japan, in 2013. This book encourages readers to enhance and expand their thinking within a widened design perspective.