Author : Bernd Polster
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Design
ISBN :
This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide available to international product design of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes 300 entries on influential designers and studios and the most important design-led manufacturers worldwide, both past and present.
Author : Deyan Sudjic
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0718199472
This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.
Author : Adam Stech
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3791386093
This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favorites. In 2006, architecture and design curator Adam Stech embarked on a photographic project to document the best Modernist architecture around the globe. More than thirty countries and more than a decade later, the fruits of that monumental project are gathered in this impressive collection covering nearly a century of architectural history. Driven by a passion for rediscovering forgotten or lesser known architectural treasures of Modernism, Stech took thousands of diverse photographs of exteriors and interiors. This survey features often overlooked details and hidden projects that Stech helps bring to light. His brief commentary on each featured building reveals insights into his vast collection of images that includes treasures of Italian Modernism, American mid-century classics, South American Art Deco, Belgian organic architecture, French Brutalism, forgotten Australian modern houses, and much more. This expansive and inspiring book is the definitive guide to architecture in the 20th century in all its different forms and tendencies from its strict rationalist to flamboyant decorative styles.
Author : Charlotte Fiell
Publisher : Goodman Fiell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781783130054
The official Design Museum guide to the world's leading designers and design studiosCovers all aspects of design from architecture and products to graphics and 3D computer environmentsIntroduction by Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design MuseumFull of insightful and rare factual information making it an invaluable resource for anyone studying or interested in designDesign Museum is moving to a new West London location in 2015In its new location, the Design Museum aims to double its attendance to one million visitors per annum, thereby increasing its already established global recognition as one of the most important design institutions in the worldThe official Design Museum: A-Z of Design & Designers is the guide to the world's leading design innovators - from Alvar Aalto and Joe Colombo to Charles and Ray Eames and Zaha Hadid. It covers all aspects of design, from architecture, automotive design and heavy industrial design to product design, graphic design and interactive design, as well as key styles, themes, movements, technologies and materials. Each entry features an authoritatively written text as well as key biographical information where appropriate. This beautifully illustrated book is an important reference work on design that includes not only acknowledged pioneers of modern design, but also a roster of leading contemporary designers and design studios. It is an essential must-have book for design students, designers and design aficionados alike.
Author : Stephen Bayley
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Includes the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols that have influenced the world of design.
Author : Stephen Bayley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781554077519
Well-illustrated with 300 color photographs this is a comprehensive guide and sourcebook for design including architectural; industrial; consumer products and graphics; as well as profiles of leaders, essays on the design's history and role, and more.
Author : Charlotte Fiell
Publisher : Carlton Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Chair design
ISBN : 9781847960344
"Chairs introduces the most innovative and groundbreaking seating designs from the world's greatest designers, from Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso ..."--Publisher description.
Author : Andy Tuohy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1844038467
A most striking, design-led reference book, A to Z Great Modern Artists features artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in his constructivist poster style, Andy Warhol as a classic repeat print, and Barbara Hepworth illustrated to resemble one of her distinctive bronze and rod sculptures. With expert text by art historian Christopher Masters, each artist's entry includes a summary of the essential things you need to know about the artist; their biographical details, why they're so significant, where you can find their works today, and a surprising fact about them plus reproductions of key works. Whether you're already an art expert, or looking for a helpful cheat to navigating around a gallery, you'll love this stunning and intelligent guide to global artists of the modern age.
Author : Nicole C. Rudolph
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1782385886
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects’, planners’, and residents’ understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the “right to comfort” as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
Author : Charlotte Fiell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783836522168
From consumer products and packaging to transportation and equipment, this comprehensive work traces the evolution of industrial design from the Industrial Revolution to the present day
