Product Description: Inside Design Now takes the pulse of American design in the new millennium, providing a fascinating tour of cutting-edge trends in architecture, interiors, landscape, fashion, graphics, and new media. Featuring eighty emerging and established designers including 2 x 4, Mike Mills, Peter Eisenman, Fuse Project, Tod Machover, Paula Scher, Jennifer Siegal, and Isaac Mizrahi Inside Design Now illustrates the most innovative and provocative thinking in design today...read more

Product Description: This volume is based on Therese Bonney's little-known archive, much of it unpublished since the 1930s, which comprehensively documents the modern movement in Paris between the wars. American photojournalist Bonney was one of many bright young foreigners drawn to Paris in the 1920s...read more

Product Description: Russel Wright (1904-1976) was one of America's great industrial designers. His inexpensive, mass-produced dinnerware, appliances, textiles, and furniture introduced modern design to millions of American households between 1930 and the mid-1960s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The collective output of the Middle European centres of glass production demonstrates a thoroughly modern approach to the craft. While most other histories of modernism focus on the primacy of pure form, this work chronicles the use of ornament, in a wide variety of styles and techniques, by early 20th century designers...read more

A collection of the insights of more than 120 prestigious design firms into the world of materials outlines their design philosophies and explains how each depicted material was created and what it can be used for.

Product Description: If sports have become a new religion, then sporting equipment has become an object of devotion. Our cultural fascination with the icons of sports- -from Michael Jordan to Rollerblades--and the technology of designs that push us to ever-higher levels of performance are the subject of this intriguing book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on a spectacular private collection of twentieth-century posters, ads, photomontages, and graphic ephemera, this book showcases more than two hundred examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 1930s. The selections represent the work of Soviet, European, and American avant- garde designers and artists who used the new technologies of mass production and distribution to market everything from salad oil to communism to the avant-garde itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The name of Rene Lalique (1860-1945) is familiar throughout the world and is synonymous with one of the most extraordinary decorative vocabularies of this century. Known primarily as a master craftsman of objects in glass, he was also the designer of exquisite jewelry that attained the highest expression of the Art Nouveau style...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The National Design Museum in New York is one of the largest repositories of design in the world, with a collection of nearly a quarter of a million objects such as typewriters, tea pots, architectural renderings, lace, wallpaper sample books and posters...read more

Product Description: A book on the origins of modern-day objects and concepts of design.