Essential Design

by Catherine McDermott and Cahterine McDermott

Book Overview

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. Extensive bibliographical information and cross-references are included, and particular attention is paid to the new themes of contemporary culture, with explanations of how the fashions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747514585
• ISBN13: 9780747514589
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages