Design in Britain: Big ideas (small island) - Hardcover

Design Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840915420 ISBN 13: 9781840915426

Verlag: Conran, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This is a unique moment for British design. The generation which shaped the emergence of design in the post war years, from Robin Day and Kenneth Grange to Terence Conran, is still active at the same time as young designers born half a century later are coming to prominence with innovative explorations of the implications for design of a very different technological and social climate. Design in Britain discusses the major figures that have led the way and those who have turned it on its head. Divided by subject matter, chapters include: Architecture - how the shape of commercial rebuilding has evolved in Britain; Identity - how the logos and marks measure out the history of Britain; After the Object - the web-based expansion of the definition of what constitutes design; Fashion - a measured account of the ideas and the reality behind British fashion; Graphic Design - an account of the successive creative waves of graphic design in Britain; Furniture Design - a view of what it is that has made British design special from the outside; Industrial Design - a critical response to the interaction between design in the commercial sense, and in the cultural sphere, and Car Design - how Britain is building more cars than ever, but in foreign owned factories. With each chapter written by an international expert in that field, this really is the most comprehensive account of what it is that has given Britain a special place in design.

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The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain, and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. Design is a hugely fertile field of inventive new work, as well as a key component underpinning the modern economy. It provides a means for understanding the contemporary world, and, potentially, for making it a better place.

Deyan Sudjic, the Director of the Design Museum in London was previously the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and Co-Chair of the Urban Age Advisory Board. Alongside these roles, he was the Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Recently, he was a juror for the design of London's Aquatics Centre, which

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• Verlag: Conran
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840915420
• ISBN 13: 9781840915426
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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