Design · Craft & Applied Design
A topic within Craft & Applied Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
2 works
William Morris
Argues across a series of lectures that the decorative arts of ordinary life are as serious a concern as painting and sculpture, and that industrial production has degraded them by separating the maker's pleasure from the made object.
John Ruskin
Argues that decorative design applied to manufactured goods degrades whenever it imitates natural forms too literally, and that good design instead abstracts from nature while staying honest about its material and process.