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21st Century Design: New Design Icons from Mass Market to Avant-Garde
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Product Description
The dawn of the 21st century has witnessed an explosion of creativity in just about every field of design. This updated new edition of the popular 21st Century Design guides the reader through an often bewildering array of contemporary movements, styles, and trends.
Intelligently and provocatively written, this large and attractive volume places the current scene in a historic framework, explores the cultural and economic forces shaping design now and for the future, identifies top designers and trends, and explains the vigorous artistic debates going on among the innovators in architecture, fashion, interiors, and product design.
From the avant-garde to mass-market, 21st Century Design provides an accessible and engaging look at what’s happening today.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #470760 in Books
- Published on: 2009-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
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About the Author
Journalist, lecturer, and entrepreneur Marcus Fairs, founding editor of the architecture and design magazine icon, is now editor of online design magazine Dezeen www.dezeen.com Marcus wrote about architecture and design for a number of British publications, including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Condé Nast Traveller, and won numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004). He also regularly appears on radio and TV in the UK and wrote and presented a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck (BBC, 2003). In September 2007 Marcus devised and curated the Trash Luxe exhibition of recycled design at Liberty’s in London.
