Skrevet af RAIZMAN
Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to
the present day, this book explores 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 signs for desires that have little to do
with need or function. The book also explores the impact of a wealth of
new man-made industrial materials and tools on the course of modern
design - from steel to titanium, plywood to plastic, cotton to nylon,
wire to transistors,and 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. Reviews of the first edition:
"..Raizmans book awakens you to examples of design that surround us
everywhere, all the time. By the end, the History of Modern Design
manages the rare trick of being an authoritative textbook that fuels the
imagination.."
