Product Description: For more than 30 years, Susan S. Szenasy’s voice has resonated as an editor-in-chief, writer, teacher, moderator, filmmaker and lecturer. In all of these roles, her advocacy for ethical, sustainable, human-centered design has been her guiding light...read more

What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly revised, this new edition: explores the iPhone digs deep into the digital with a new chapter on networks and mobile technologies provides a new chapter on studying design culture explores the relationship of design to management and the creative industries supports students with a revamped website and all new exercises This is an essential companion for students of design, the creative industries, visual culture, material culture and sociology.

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

The dawn of the 21st century has witnessed an explosion of creativity in just about every field of design. This updated new edition of the popular 21st Century Design guides the reader through an often bewildering array of contemporary movements, styles, and trends.Intelligently and provocatively written, this large and attractive volume places the current scene in a historic framework, explores the cultural and economic forces shaping design now and for the future, identifies top designers and trends, and explains the vigorous artistic debates going on among the innovators in architecture, fashion, interiors, and product design.From the avant-garde to mass-market, 21st Century Design provides an accessible and engaging look at what’s happening today.  

Product Description: An abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key movements and design traditions.A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century...read more

Judith Miller takes on the 20th century with this new, expansive handbook for both beginning and established collectors.Modern design is beautiful, functional, idiosyncratic, increasing in value, and still relatively affordable. Now, Judith Miller introduces a extensive sourcebook, written specifically for the 20th century collector. From the birth of modern design, through modernism, art deco, mid-century modern, and the post-modern and contemporary years, 20th CENTURY takes a close look all the most important design and collectible categories, including ceramics, glass, furniture, lamps and lighting, clocks, silver and metalwares, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, domestic wares and posters.Including 5,000 photographs and in-depth analysis, collectors will get the inside track on which designs are the true classics and how to make the smartest purchases for the future.

Presents guidelines on etiquette for every social and business situation, including telephone and table manners and wedding etiquette

An indispensable reference for anyone planning a vacation in London gives tips on every aspect of visiting one of Europe's most popular destinations, from where to eat and stay to where to find great shopping and tour bargains. Original.

Product Description: This absorbing study surveys the developments in decorative design from the 1830s to the 1950s, showing how the modern age has affected the status of decoration and examining the role of ornament in a rapidly changing industrial society...read more

Product Description: Front Cover: (Main image--flower) Walter. A vase from the Still Life series designed for Parenthesis Ltd., London, 1984. Design by Daniel Weil Photograph by Richard Waite Courtesy of Pentagram Ltd. Smaller images from left to right Phonebook...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers advice on finding bargains in London and surveys stores selling such items as clothes, perfume, and china

An indispensable reference for anyone planning a vacation in London gives tips on every aspect of visiting one of Europe's most popular destinations, from where to eat and stay to where to find great shopping and tour bargains. Original.

Offers advice on finding bargains in London and surveys stores selling such items as clothes, perfume, and china

A varied group of travelers aboard a stagecoach bound from the southern Wyoming Territory to Buffalo, a town in the north, discovers that one of their number is an outlaw who is part of a scheme to steal the money cargo

Product Description: Andrea Branzi is one of Italy's leading design critics and practitioners. Learning from Milan begins where his previous discourses on the sources and traditions of Italian design leave off and draws on the Italian experience to address issues of international significance...read more