Pretense Design : Surface over Substance.

Intro -- Contents -- Series foreword -- Appearance first -- Object language -- Objects talk -- Objects deceive -- Bending the truth -- Product semantics -- Design rhetoric -- Objectives -- Modes -- Perceptibility -- Setup -- Meanings -- A theory of deception -- Summing up -- Beautification -- Self-presentation -- Mother of deception -- A personal matter -- Body paint -- Tanning -- High heels -- Amusement -- Irrational otherness -- Architecture -- Columns -- Visual distortion -- Façadism -- Ha-ha -- Functionalism -- Trompe l'oeil -- Simulacrascapes -- Furniture reclaimed -- Intrepid chic -- Skeuomorphism -- Fauxthenticity -- Steampunk -- New patina -- Eloquent packaging -- Trophies -- Adventurous clothing -- Travels in time, space, and fantasy -- Substitution -- Second choice -- Surface surrogates -- Who cares? -- Placeholders -- Deception -- The truth suspended -- Masks -- Cartography -- Trojan horses -- Potemkin village -- Camouflage -- Emulation -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Figure credits -- Index.

How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.

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