[An abridged small size (6.3" x 5.7" x 1") edition of the original 2007 edition.] Design is all around us, it is impossible to avoid. Everything that surrounds us has been designed -- from the paper clip and the iPod, to our homes and the way we live. The A-Z of Design is epic, opinionated, comprehensive in scope and forms the definitive statement on design for this century.
Written by Stephen Bayley, one of the world's best known commentators on modern culture and Terence Conran, one of the world's leading designers and arbiters of taste, this book pays tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols that have influenced the world of design. The book combines essential facts with authoritative opinions - everything, as the industrial designer Raymond Loewy once said, from a lipstick to a steamship - but brought right up to date.
A series of essays begin by introducing how design has its place in modern cultural history including