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Design
Paying tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols, this title combines essential facts with authoritative opinions on the history of design, on everything, as the industrial designer Raymond Loewy once said, from a lipstick to a steamship.
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336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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August 31, 2013
A great slab of a book which at first made me suspect this was made to adorn an expensive coffee table in leafy Surrey.
Potentially I was wrong, certainly the authors need no introduction and the concise manner in which their views are expressed is wonderful. The size of book gives the illustrations space to breathe. Some of the typographical elements strike a little tricksy but it is a minor issue.
I much prefer Bayley and Conrad in book form rather than on TV.
Fortunately my views on design chime naturally with those of the book (that is neither good nor bad but makes the self assured statements in the book readable) otherwise the manner the arts and crafts movement is dismissed, indeed derided, would annoy. Philippe Starck is cut off at the knees in one sentence.
The breadth of knowledge on display is fabulous and I found myself continually seeking out the references via the Internet and a whole list of future reading material was quickly assembled.
The bulk of this bulky book is devoted to an A to Z listing of people, publications, industries, brands prominent in the field of design. Each entry having a description and often illustrated. It is a book to dip into rather than slog through at this point.
It is a jumping off point for potentially endless study of this most interesting of subjects. A book you can never really "finish".
Potentially I was wrong, certainly the authors need no introduction and the concise manner in which their views are expressed is wonderful. The size of book gives the illustrations space to breathe. Some of the typographical elements strike a little tricksy but it is a minor issue.
I much prefer Bayley and Conrad in book form rather than on TV.
Fortunately my views on design chime naturally with those of the book (that is neither good nor bad but makes the self assured statements in the book readable) otherwise the manner the arts and crafts movement is dismissed, indeed derided, would annoy. Philippe Starck is cut off at the knees in one sentence.
The breadth of knowledge on display is fabulous and I found myself continually seeking out the references via the Internet and a whole list of future reading material was quickly assembled.
The bulk of this bulky book is devoted to an A to Z listing of people, publications, industries, brands prominent in the field of design. Each entry having a description and often illustrated. It is a book to dip into rather than slog through at this point.
It is a jumping off point for potentially endless study of this most interesting of subjects. A book you can never really "finish".
July 18, 2009
Seeing as one of its Korean-edition translator, I was a bit disappointed in reading some articles in which the writer's view is too biased though the book aims to be a dictionary-type book.
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