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Design history : an anthology / edited by Dennis P. Doordan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Design issues reader | A Design issues readerPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 1995.Description: xiv,274p. : ill., facsims., port. ; 26cmISBN:
  • 9780262540766 (pbk) :
  • 0262540762 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Design issues,
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.44 DOO
Contents:
Drawing and the ideology of industrialization / David Brett -- The poster as art : Jules Cheþret and the struggle for the equality of the arts in late nineteenth-century France / Bradford R. Collins -- Tradition and innovation : the design work of William Addison Dwiggins / Paul Shaw -- Super Veloz : a typographic system for the small printer / Enric Satueþ -- Imre Kner and the revival of Hungarian printing / Gyo·rgy Haiman -- Alms for oblivion : the history of women in early American graphic design / Ellen Mazur Thomson -- The designers go to the fair, I : Walter Dorwin Teague and the professionalization of corporate industrial exhibits, 1933-1940 ; The designers go to the fair, II : Norman Bel Geddes, the General Motors "Futurma," and the visit-to-the-factory transformed / Roland Marchand -- Harley Earl and the art and color section : the birth of styling at General Motors / David Gartman -- Design at CBS ; Promoting aluminum : designers and the American aluminum industry / Dennis P. Doordan -- Reconsidering the factory, art-labor, and the schools of design in nineteenth-century Britain / James A. Schmeichen -- Evolutionary affinity in Arthur Mackmurdo's botanical design / Larry D. Lutchmansingh -- The design prototype as artistic boundary : the debate on history and industry in Central European applied arts museums, 1860-1900 / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Early modern design in Hong Kong / Matthew Turner -- Chinese modern design : a retrospective / Shou Zhi Wang -- That was the beginning / Svetlana Sylvestrova -- The Irish design reform movement of the 1960s / John Turpin.
Summary: Compiled from volumes 3-10 of "Design Issues", this anthology examines various conceptual and methodological issues of contemporary design history. Essays are grouped into three categories: graphic design; design in the American corporate milieu; and design in the context of national experiences.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 745.44 DOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 106898
Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 745.44 DOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 106899

Compiled from vol. 3-10 of Design issues.

Includes bibliographic references.

Drawing and the ideology of industrialization / David Brett -- The poster as art : Jules Cheþret and the struggle for the equality of the arts in late nineteenth-century France / Bradford R. Collins -- Tradition and innovation : the design work of William Addison Dwiggins / Paul Shaw -- Super Veloz : a typographic system for the small printer / Enric Satueþ -- Imre Kner and the revival of Hungarian printing / Gyo·rgy Haiman -- Alms for oblivion : the history of women in early American graphic design / Ellen Mazur Thomson -- The designers go to the fair, I : Walter Dorwin Teague and the professionalization of corporate industrial exhibits, 1933-1940 ; The designers go to the fair, II : Norman Bel Geddes, the General Motors "Futurma," and the visit-to-the-factory transformed / Roland Marchand -- Harley Earl and the art and color section : the birth of styling at General Motors / David Gartman -- Design at CBS ; Promoting aluminum : designers and the American aluminum industry / Dennis P. Doordan -- Reconsidering the factory, art-labor, and the schools of design in nineteenth-century Britain / James A. Schmeichen -- Evolutionary affinity in Arthur Mackmurdo's botanical design / Larry D. Lutchmansingh -- The design prototype as artistic boundary : the debate on history and industry in Central European applied arts museums, 1860-1900 / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Early modern design in Hong Kong / Matthew Turner -- Chinese modern design : a retrospective / Shou Zhi Wang -- That was the beginning / Svetlana Sylvestrova -- The Irish design reform movement of the 1960s / John Turpin.

Compiled from volumes 3-10 of "Design Issues", this anthology examines various conceptual and methodological issues of contemporary design history. Essays are grouped into three categories: graphic design; design in the American corporate milieu; and design in the context of national experiences.

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