 AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design Text by Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunne, Alice Rawsthorn, Hal Foster, Gaetano Pesce, Wava Carpenter, Alexandra Midal, et al. AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design tackles the difficult, traditionally divisive relationship between art and design. Recently, new practices and perspectives in both worlds have surfaced, putting this division under new scrutiny. An over >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640128
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Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Achille Castiglioni Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) was one of the most important and prolific designers of the twentieth century. This comprehensive monograph is the only detailed study of his remarkable career and includes a catalogue of his complete >>more
Phaidon
ISBN 9781780750026
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|  Alessandro Mendini: Minimum Design Alessandro Mendini, born in Milan in 1931, is a major theorist and a driving force behind avant-garde design in Italy. Aside from his artistic career, he was also editor of the architecture magazines Casabella and >>more
Ore Cultura
ISBN 9788866480280
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 As Long as It's Pink By Penny Sparke. What is the legacy of the architectural and design movement of the mid-twentieth century? Did it deliver its promised vision of an egalitarian, democratic society supported by aesthetically simple, mass-produced goods whose forms fulfilled their >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616516
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer (2007) The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark >>more
Yale
ISBN 9780300121919
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|  Cabinets of Wonder Skulls, butterflies, hunting trophies, ancient Egyptian artifacts, the alleged skeletons of mythological creatures, and many other mysterious oddities fill cabinets of wonder. A centuries-old tradition developed in Europe during the Renaissance, cabinets >>more
Abrams
ISBN 9781419705540
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 California Design 1930 - 1965 In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was "not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions.... It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way." >>more
Ingram
ISBN 9780262016070
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|  Campana Brothers: Complete Works (So Far) (2010) The comprehensive monograph on one of the most celebrated bodies of design in recent decades.
Inspired and distilled from Brazil’s street and carnival cultures, Humberto and Fernando Campana have consistently produced gleefully "imperfect" desig >>more
Rizzoli
ISBN 9780847833269
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|  Charles & Ray Eames: Beautiful Details Renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames are amongst the greatest designers of the 20th century. They are, of course, most well known for their groundbreaking and iconic furniture designs, but they also created important, creative, >>more
AMMO
ISBN 9781934429747
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 Charlotte Perriand An important figure of modernism in the 1930s, and the principal protagonist of organic design in the 1950s, Charlotte Perriand was a true 20th century pioneer. Although her name has long been inseparable from that >>more
Assouline
ISBN 9782843236617
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|  Chasing The Perfect: Thoughts On Modernist Design In Our Time By Natalia Ilyin. Foreword by Susan S. Szenasy. In Chasing the Perfect writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her astute, incisive and humorous observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, “Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045214
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Hardcover, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 25 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Collecting Design Adam Lindemann’s second volume is the follow-up to Collecting Contemporary, an unprecedented success, introducing the lay reader to collecting contemporary art, with tell-all interviews by the biggest players in the global art market. The idea >>more
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ISBN 9783836519939
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 Concrete Concrete takes a fresh look at the world’s most versatile and abundant building material. Collating fascinating and beautiful concrete buildings by some of the most celebrated architects of the last century, it features familiar projects >>more
Phaidon
ISBN 9780714863542
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|  Contemporary Glass Art Foreword Chantal Prod'Hom. Text by Bettina Tschumi, Rosmarie Lippuner, Gabrielle Guth, Susanne K. Frantz, Jean Luc Olivié, Catherine Vandour, Helmut Ricke, Catherine Montouchet-Zoritchak. At more than 400 pages, this catalogue of the amazing contemporary glass collection of the MUDAC, or Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, features work by 310 artists from the 1960s >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531276
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 9 in. / 405 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art & Design (MAD, 2011) Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design is an in-depth examination of the American studio craft movement in the decades following World War II, with a focus on the major mediums (clay, wood, fiber, metal, >>more
Abrams
ISBN 9780810984806
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 Criss & Cross: Design from Switzerland 1860-2007 Texts by Ariana Pradal, Köbi Gantenbein. From Le Corbusier to the Helvetica font, Switzerland has produced some of the most influential product and graphic design of the twentieth century. This sleek volume collects the best examples spanning from the early twentieth >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531344
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.5 / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045955
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Design and the Elastic Mind Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, Ted Sargent. Over the past few decades, we have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter and individuality. Today our minds must be able to synthesize such transformations, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707322
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Paperback 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Not available
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 Design of 20th Century Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering results. >>more
Taschen America
ISBN 9783836541060
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2009 Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen. Whether in industrial design, fashion, graphic design or architecture, Dutch design has won international acclaim in recent years. This first edition of the Dutch Design Yearbook, which comes in four different-colored covers, presents an overview >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626983
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Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2010 Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Antoine Achten, Bert van Meggelen. Text by Glenn Adamson, Rick Poynor, Aaron Betsky. Following the success of the first Dutch Design Yearbook (2009), produced to record the recent ascent of the Netherlands to the forefront of European design, the editorial team of Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Vincent >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627553
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Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Dutch Design Yearbook 2011 Edited by Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Hans van de Markt. The third Dutch Design Yearbook offers an overview of more than 60 of the best designs produced in the Netherlands in 2010 and 2011 in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628314
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Foundation Design Studio Text by Gilead Duvshani. What is design? How is design taught? What is the starting point for a design course? Is there a clear method for teaching design? In this volume, professor Gilead Duvshani engages these questions, introducing a >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803032119
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 244 pgs / 300 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  From the South Seas Edited by Christraud M. Geary. Essays by Michael Gunn and Christraud M. Geary. From New Guinea to New Zealand, Easter Island to Hawaii, the Pacific region known as Oceania has long excited the Western imagination, but its traditional sculptures, pots and paintings have only recently been studied and >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466979
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Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 90 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Active/In stock
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 George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design George Nelson (1908-1986) was a pioneering modernist who ranks with such outstanding American designers as Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Eliot Noyes. Nelson's office produced some of the twentieth century's canonical pieces of industrial design, >>more
MIT
ISBN 9780262511162
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|  Gio Ponti Gio Ponti (1891–1979) was one of Italy’s most influential designers whose work includes automobiles, furniture, interiors, and buildings. Working in a multitude of materials, he is a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century architecture >>more
Rizzoli
ISBN 9780847832705
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|  Guzzini: Infinite Italian Design One hundred years of history of one of the most innovative companies promoting Italian design. This book describes the development of the Guzzini company—100 years of history set out in fascinating detail, with a succession >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857214078
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 How to Break the Rules of Brand Design in 10+8 Easy Exercises Introduction by Beppe Finessi. Text by Stefano Caprioli, Pietro Corraini. For many years, the concept of "branding" involved the creation of a distinct graphic element that could be produced on everything involved with a particular brand. This cheeky handbook, produced under the welcome influence of >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875701642
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 88 pgs / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Jasper Morrison: Everything but the Walls The name Jasper Morrison stands for simple an enduring form, functional, and doing justice to its materials. He has developed an unmistakable, excitingly modern formal language, and became one of the best-known and most influential >>more
Lars Muller
ISBN 9783037780640
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|  Joe Colombo: Minimum Design During his brief but prolific career, Cesare "Joe" Colombo became one of the most inventive figures in contemporary Italian design. His futuristic designs included 'micro-living-worlds'; multi-functional objects that aimed to save space and time and >>more
Ore Cultura
ISBN 9788866480051
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 Josef Hoffmann: Autobiography By Josef Hoffman. Edited by Peter Noever, Marek Pokorn. Text by Martina Straková, Rainald Franz. As a co-founder of the Secession, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Österreichischer Werkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) had a decisive influence on modern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948, Hoffmann wrote this autobiography, tracing his life >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724739
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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Birkhauser
ISBN 9782764388959
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 Material Matters: New Materials in Design Material Matters: New Materials in Design discusses the vast range of materials that are available to us today, and highlights the advances predicted to prove seminal in the future. The six chapters are divided by >>more
Black Dog
ISBN 9781907317736
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|  Miller's 20th Century Design Mini (2012) 20th Century Design is the perfect handbook for the new and established collector, now available in a smaller format. It explains who the key designers of the century were and features over one thousand design >>more
Mitchell Beasley
ISBN 9781845337230
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|  Modern Essays by Elisabetta Bresciani, Marco de Michelis and Cath»rine de Smet. Conversation with Elisabetta Bresciani and Edigio Marzona. Over 500 books on twentieth-century architecture from the Marzona Collection are represented here via bibliographic information, photographic documentation, and notes on architectural and typographic history. A focus on the parallels between typography a >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783851600315
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Paperback, 9.25 x 7.25 in. / 280 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Modern Swedish Design Edited by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, Barbara Miller Lane. Text by Lucy Creagh, Kenneth Frampton, Barbara Miller Lane, Helena Kåberg. Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, some of the crucial generative writings on the subject have not been widely translated, and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707223
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Paperback, 7.25 x 10.5 in. / 320 pgs / 18 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users In the tradition of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Michael Rock, principal and founder of 2x4 Design in New York, explores the history and development of twenty-first-century visual and design culture. This book presents a >>more
Rizzoli Intl Pubns
ISBN 9780847839735
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|  NeoCraft Edited by Sandra Alfondy. Text by Grace Cochrane, Elizabeth Cumming, Tanya Harrod, Janice Helland, David Howard, David Howes, Love Jönsson, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, Bruce Metcalf, B. Lynne Milgram, Alla Myzelev, John Potvin, Mike Press, Larry Shiner. The crafts have long occupied a marginal role in Modernist discourse. Neo Craft challenges this assumption with a wide selection of scholarly essays exploring the historical and contemporary positions that the crafts hold within visual >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616479
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 273 pgs / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Norman Bel Geddes Designs America Norman Bel Geddes Designs America accompanies a landmark exhibition exploring the career of Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958), one of the 20th century’s foremost theatrical and industrial designers. This companion volume explores Bel Geddes’s life and >>more
Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 9781419702990
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|  Paul Evans: Designer & Sculptor Raised as a Quaker in Eastern Pennsylvania, designer and sculptor Paul Evans is known for his highly unusual and yet completely functional furniture designs. Evans produced more than a dozen lines of furniture and countless >>more
Schiffer Pub Ltd
ISBN 9780764341663
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|  Philippe Starck: Minimum Design Philippe Starck is one of the world's most prolific and famous designers. Well known for his luxurious hotels and restaurants, he is equally celebrated for his inspirational reworkings of everyday household items.
Whether it be his >>more
Ore Cultura
ISBN 9788866480303
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 Pierre Charpin (French and English Edition) A fine arts graduate, Pierre Charpin has devoted himself since the early 1990s to designing furniture and other objects. The present publication, the first to trace his career to date, provides a comprehensive overview of >>more
Birkhauser
ISBN 9783764399566
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|  Pre-Specifics Edited by Vera Bühlmann, Martin Wiedmer. Text by Anthony Dunne, Greg Lynn. The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow c >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829303
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 390 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Rhapsody: Kelly Wearstler (2012) Design trendsetter Kelly Wearstler shares her inspirations, inviting readers into the creation of her opulent interiors. Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is kno >>more
Rizzoli
ISBN 9780847838585
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|  Studio Job: The Book of Job Playing off of what some see as the near-biblical intensity of Studio Job’s oeuvre, this monograph, their first, is titled The Book of Job. The lavish package resembles a traditional leather-bound bible featuring a number >>more
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ISBN 9780847830633
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|  Studio Najbrt: Life Happiness Surprise The Czech graphic design studio Najbrt has carved out an extraordinary spot in its home market: total ubiquity. Founder and principal Ales Najbrt designs books (Czech100 Design Icons), magazines (Raut), dinner plates (with abstract calligra >>more
Torst
ISBN 9788072152988
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs / 1280 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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 Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by >>more
Lars Muller
ISBN 9783037781067
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|  The Design Encyclopedia By Mel Byars. The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700125
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Clothbound, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 832 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Transmission: Know How and French Design A tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms. This book is a tribute to the excellence of twenty-five leading French firms, such as Baccarat, Christofle, Hermès, and S.T. Dupont, which have succeeded >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857214092
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 Web Aesthetics By Vito Campanelli. The rise of social media and digital networks has been so dizzyingly swift that any cogent appraisal of the aesthetics of the web has, until now, been almost impossible to propose. A much-anticipated book, Web >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627706
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Why Design Now? National Design Triennial Text by Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith. Why design now? As issues of ecology and sustainable living continue to gain in urgency and topicality, design has come to the forefront of the arts as the discipline best equipped to meet today's challenges. >>more
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780910503877
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 / 192 pgs / 370 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock
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