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History of Modern Design (Trade Version)
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by David Raizman and Laurence Pu King
Sales Rank: 72108
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List Price: $45.00
$35.41
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on 10-30-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 400 pages
Published by: Prentice Hall Art August 15, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0131842668
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0131842663
Book Dimensions:
11.3 x 9.8 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 4.7 pounds
Product Description
The first book of its kind, Raizman’s History of Modern Design offers a gorgeously illustrated survey of the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to present day, covering furniture, metal, glass, ceramics, fashion, appliances, transportation, and advertising.
Back Cover Copy
Design plays an integral part in our lives, surrounding us at home and in the office. The products of design-whether in the form of household products, packaging, fashion, software, industrial equipment, or promotional images in the mass media-can be seen both as objects of beauty and as the result of creative human endeavors.
This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social, and commercial context in which this relationship developed. The effects of a vastly enlarged audience for the products of modern design and the complex dynamic of mass consumption, are also discussed. Part of this dynamic reveals that products serve as symbols for desires that have little to do with need or function.
Wide-ranging examples of product and graphic design are shown-and their significance within the history of design explained-including vessels and other objects made from glass, ceramics, plastic, or metal, as well as tableware, furniture, textiles, lighting, housings for electric appliances, machines and equipment, cars, tools, books, posters, magazines, illustrations, advertisements, and digital information. The book also explores the impact of a wealth of new manmade industrial materials on the course of modern design-from steel to titanium, plywood to plastic, cotton to nylon, wire to transistors, and .from microprocessors to nanotubes. The research, development, and applications of these technologies are shown as depending upon far-reaching lines of communication, stretching across geographical and linguistic boundaries. In this way, David Raizman reveals the history of modern design as a "global" history.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: History of Modern Design (Paperback)
I purchased this book for my design history course. I was really excited about adding a comprehensive design book to my collection, that covered several fields, not just graphic design, but fashion,industrial design, posters, teapots, chairs, and architecture. Sadly, this book was a dissapointment. The organization of the book is hard and thus throughout my course I am constantly searching around the book like crazy for information about the pieces that weve talked about in class. The pictures are terribly few and most are black and white or of poor quality. The text is not very reader friendly either, it seems eroneous and muddled. I've suggested that we use a different book for our design course at my college. Unforunately there is a lot of writing on the comprehensive topic of design in the 20th Century. If anyone else cna suggest a single text for us to use please do.
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