Bruce Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Stephanie Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. He is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.Stephanie Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Bruce Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. She is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

• Series Foreword viiiAcknowledgments xiiPart I: Discursive Design: In TheoryIntroductionBackgroundFoundationTheorizing PracticeConclusionPart II: Discursive Design: In PracticeIntroductionDiscursive Designing: Nine FacetsCase StudiesGlossary 545Interviewees and Interlocutors 557Image Credits 561Bibliography 581Index 603

Bruce Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Stephanie Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. He is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.Stephanie Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Bruce Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. She is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

• Series Foreword viiiAcknowledgments xiiPart I: Discursive Design: In TheoryIntroductionBackgroundFoundationTheorizing PracticeConclusionPart II: Discursive Design: In PracticeIntroductionDiscursive Designing: Nine FacetsCase StudiesGlossary 545Interviewees and Interlocutors 557Image Credits 561Bibliography 581Index 603

Bruce Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Stephanie Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. He is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.Stephanie Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Bruce Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. She is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

• Series Foreword viiiAcknowledgments xiiPart I: Discursive Design: In TheoryIntroductionBackgroundFoundationTheorizing PracticeConclusionPart II: Discursive Design: In PracticeIntroductionDiscursive Designing: Nine FacetsCase StudiesGlossary 545Interviewees and Interlocutors 557Image Credits 561Bibliography 581Index 603