Visual impact: Culture and the meaning of images

honing the discursive heritage of design studies. It leaves space for future scholarship to bring these social-material investments into investigations of other objects and practices. Though it lacks direct discussion of branded objects and spaces, which arguably play as great a role in everyday life as their unbranded counterparts, its avoidance of these topics allows it to construct design culture as a unique paradigm more likely to encompass corporate practices than supplement them. Most notably, this reader succeeds in its aggregation of a cohesive political, historical and scholarly programme from a diverse interdisciplinary pool.