The Story of design

Author

• Fiell, Charlotte

Additional Author(s)

• Fiell, Peter

Publisher

London: Goodman Fiell, 2013

Language

English

ISBN

9781783130016

Series

Subject(s)

• ART AND DESIGN-HISTORY
• DESIGN-HISTORY
• INDUSTRIAL DESIGN-HISTORY

Notes

. . Index: p. 504-509

Abstract

Design is a multi-disciplined approach to problem-solving that has always uniquely reflected humankind's aspirations, needs and desires. It has both shaped and mirrored the spirit of our times. The Story of Design is a fascinating multi-stranded account that is truly compre-hensive in its scope, introducing the styles, movements, theories, materials, processes, technologies, leading practi-tioners and companies that have shaped modern design into what it is today. Contextualizing developments in design with regard to wider social, cultural and political matters, this is an indispensable overview of creative endeavour in the pursuit of the better-designed product. Through exquisite illustrations and authoritative text, this definitive account studies the found-ations of design practice from its earliest inception and defines the major themes that have guided this discipline from the prehistoric era to the Ancient world, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution and Modern Movement to our own Digital Age. Leading design historians Charlotte and Peter Fiell, through careful analysis of the evolution of modern design, un-cover the real importance of this unique yet all-encompassing creative activity and assess its crucial future role in society.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

512 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

The early origins of design :
The prehistoric tools of the Three Ages ;
The ancient world and the birth of mass production ;
China's new emperor and the power of mass production –

Design and craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century :
Medieval inventions and the guild system ;
Renaissance men: the design thinker, the printer, and the goldsmith ;
Functional wares and basic tools ;
The high styles of the eighteenth century: from Chippendale to Adam –

The age of reason and the Industrial Revolution :
The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism ;
William Hogarth and The analysis of beauty ;
Steam power and the engines of change ;
Improved materials and precision tooling ;
The Portsmouth Block Mills ;
Coalbrookdale and Wedgwood ;
Biedermeier and Michael Thonet –

Armory practice and a new system of rationalized production :
Eli Whitney, standardization, and interchangeability ;
The Springfield Armory and the American Civil War ;
Samuel Colt and the art of marketing ;
The American system, from sewing machines to bicycles –

The new Industrial Age and the Great Exhibition :
An exhibition of all nations ;
Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace ;
The High Victorian style and dishonest design –

The winds of reform :
A.W.N. Pugin and the Gothic Revival ;
Pre-Raphaelitism and the decorative arts ;
William Morris and the birth of the Arts and Crafts movement ;
The Aesthetic movement ;
Christopher Dresser: truth, beauty, power –

The new art :
National Romanticism ;
The Arts and Crafts movement in America –

Art nouveau :
The Art Nouveau style ;
Jugendstil ;
The Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte –

Putting theory into practice, from art manufactures to industrial products :
Adolf Loos, "Ornament and crime" ;
The Deutscher Werkbund ;
Peter Behrens and AEG –

The American system and Fordism ;
Thomas Edison and the birth of the electric age ;
The Wright brothers, Henry Ford and the moving assembly line ;
Design in World War I –

Reductivism, expressionism, and rationalism :
De Stijl ;
Russian Constructivism ;
The Weimar Bauhaus ;
The Dessau Bauhaus and a new objectivity ;
The Weissenhof exhibition –

Art deco and interpretations of Modernism :
The 1925 Paris Exhibition, from Art Deco to modernism ;
The Maison de Verre and tubular metal ;
Scandinavian modernism and Alvar Aalto ;
British modernism and its social agenda ;
Italy: futurism, Novecento, and rationalism –

The Great Depression and the Moderne style :
Art Deco: from boom to bust ;
Moderne in the design decade ;
Restyling, planned obsolesce, and the world of tomorrow –

Design for war :
Military designs of World War II ;
Design on the British home front and organic design in home furnishings ;
The American war effort –

The American dream and good design :
Homemaking and the designed American Dream ;
Good design ;
Anthropometrics and organic design –

Reconstruction and a spirit of optimism :
The reconstruction of Italy and the flowering of Italian design ;
Good Form and the West German economic miracle ;
Japanese postwar design ;
Postwar Britain and the Festival of Britain ;
The Scandinavian approaches –

Pop design and the counterculture :
The plastics age ;
Design goes Pop ;
Space age visions and radical design ;
Eco-awareness and product morality –

Rationalism versus craft :
High-tech, craft revival, and ergonomics ;
Radical design reemerges ;
The electronics age –

Postmodernism and internationalism :
Memphis and postmodernism ;
The Creative Salvage movement ;
Philippe Starck and designer hotels ;
The computer design revolution and teh rise of the brand –

Universal solutions versus creative individuality :
The rise of global design superstardom ;
The Apple factor and Smart Design ;
New Dutch design ;
Design follows fashion and design art ;
3D printing, biomimicry, and upcycling –

Some concluding thoughts.

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