Product Description: This visually stunning collection features more than 370 iconic works from the modern age. Showcasing creations by Frank Lloyd Wright, Philippe Starck, Christian Dior, Saul Bass, Rem Koolhaus, Vivienne Westwood, and many others, Modern Design is a celebration of artistic diversity that covers everything from advertising and architecture to fashion and furniture to communication devices and film...read more

Product Description: Contemporary Design presents a collection of the most important and influential pieces of design produced in modern times. With a selection of nearly 400 of the best and most enduring examples of modern design and fully updated to include the very latest examples from the twenty-first century, Contemporary Design is an informative and colorful survey of the entire genre, from advertising and architecture, to fashion and furniture, and transport and type, via communications, interiors, lighting, household items and products...read more

This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design – from Europe to Africa design history – from Art Nouveau to punk sustainable design, recycling and green design design theory – from semiotics to gender, to postcolonialism design technology, graphic design and the web. Fully cross-referenced, with up-to-date guides for further reading, Design: The Key Concepts is an indispensable reference for students of design, design history, fashion, art and visual culture.

A compact handbook to twentieth century design features a visual tour of the most impressive and groundbreaking architecture, furniture, graphics, advertising, fashion, and interiors of the modern era, covering Frank Lloyd Wright, Rem Koolhaas, Gio Ponti, Eileen Gray, Helmut Newton, Saul Bass, and many others. Original.

Product Description: This is the first book to concentrate less on Westwood as a personality than on the extraordinary and intricate clothes which have won her the respect of the international fashion community. It breaks new ground by presenting the views of Londoners who collect, wear and make her garments, as well as by exploring Westwood's genius for tailoring and witty manipulation of traditional fabrics and styles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume discusses Matthew Hilton's avant-garde furniture in the context of contemporary furniture design and looks at his manufacturing processes. Hilton himself contributes texts which explain the inspiration behind the objects. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: After receiving numerous accolades, including the prestigious Designer of the Year award, Vivienne Westwood is now acknowledged as one of the most influential names in the fashion design world.

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Product Description: Providing a guide to the history and development of design since the Industrial Revolution, this book has an introductory essay and more than 200 entries - from "Creative Chaos" to "Wiener Werkstatte" - on the movements, terminology, writers and philosophy of design...read more

Explores design from the Industrial Revolution to the present, discussing high Victorian design, arts and crafts ideals, the modern movement, post-war design, 1960s pop and op art, postmodernism, and contemporary design