A History of Industrial Design

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Phaidon, 1983 - Technology & Engineering - 240 pages
The first part of this book traces the pre-history of industrial design through the Industrial Revolution and the pioneer days of the Bauhaus to the emergence of a fully-fledged industrial design profession with many roles in modern consumer society. Part two retraces some of the same ground in a series of case studies examining the evolution of design in such fields as transport, furniture, kitchenware, communications, office equipment and packaging.

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