Editor: Sterling McIlhany
Publisher: Studio Vista, London
Publication: 1970, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 155
Size: 260 x 180
Text: English
ISBN: 0442112777
(Preface) 'Here is a book that ranges through all aspects of modern living, examining man-made things, discussing why they look as they do. The more than 250 illustrations come from museums, art galleries, picture archives, industry, science, advertising, the mass media, and artists and designers all over the country. Together with the well-grounded, instructive text they offer new insight into the basic unity of design and explore today's most significant art and design developments.
The book observes no artificial limits, but embraces design as a universal function of all man-made objects and shows how these objects are clues to the confusing, rapidly changing world we live in. A chapter on the telephone explains not how it works but how it has come to look the way it does. Another chapter relates how the shape of the jet airplane is a symbol of our times and how it has influenced the design of things around us-from clothes dryers to automobiles. There is of course a chapter on the automobile-the "Hollow Rolling Sculpture." There are chapters on fine art, on minimal art, on clothes, on architecture, on graphic design.'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing, fading, chips and tares to cover/edges of duct jacket.
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