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DESIGN
SINCE 1945
"Puts design
in context. There are wonderful examples of design within the
realities of corporate teamwork."
—Communication Arts "Provides a global view of design in the post-World War II era." —Booklist
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The
essential shape, form and structure of some objects in our daily lives
may have been fixed one, ten, or even a hundred generations ago; but
the role of designers has become increasingly prominent in a society
that in less than half a century has gone from a restless search for
the new, to the recycling of old materials. Peter Dormer defines with
great clarity the contexts within which designers work, and surveys
the wide range of postwar activity, including industrial and product
design, graphics, furniture, textiles, kitchen utensils and tableware.