Design : intelligence made visible / Stephen Bayley & Terence Conran.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Conran Octopus, 2007.Description: 335 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:- 9781840914771 (hbk.) :
- 9781840914771 (hbk.) :
- 745.2 BAY
- TS171
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 745.2 BAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 204997 |
Includes index.
1.An industrious love of art: the beginnings of design -- 2.Lawful prey: mass consumption -- 3.A kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? -- 4.Hygiene of the optical: the romance of the machine -- 5.The cash value of art: America -- 6.La ricostruzione: Italy sinces the fifties -- 7.Ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos: symbolism and consumer pyschology -- 8.All that is solid melts into air: design since the eighties.
Paying tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols, this title combines essential facts with authoritative opinions on the history of design, on everything, as the industrial designer Raymond Loewy once said, from a lipstick to a steamship.