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Design: Intelligence Made Visible
Essential facts, authoritative opinions and a provocative list of the most influential designers. The Definitive Directory of Modern Design is a dynamic and comprehensive guide to the subject. Global in scope, this book includes architecture, industrial design, furniture, fashion, cars, clothing, graphics, consumer products, signs and much more -- all complemented by 300 color photographs. There are also up-to-date profiles of the innovators and visionaries past and present whose achievements have forever changed the way we view ourselves and the world. A series of essays outlines the role of design in modern cultural history and includes Terence Conran's definition of design. The main section of the book is an A-Z directory of the most influential people, products and processes of the past and present centuries and includes biographies of leading designers. The authors also share their personal views on today's newest achievers. Among the topics Up to date, provocative and completely original, Design will be a sourcebook for professional designers, an essential guide for students of design, and a revelation for general readers hungry for information about design and designers. The featured subjects include, among many
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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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