This definitive encyclopedia covers all elements associated with decoration and design in eastern and western Europe, Australia, North and South America and Japan. Over 3000 entries form a compendium of designers, firms, movements, styles and materials in the design world from the 19th century to the present. Features lists of major design exhibitions and fairs worldwide, ranging from the 1851 Great Exhibition in London through the 1992 Seville Expo to a Pan-Russian Exhibition in Moscow in 1882. Every entry includes dates, biography, details of design education and influences, exhibitions and awards, an in-depth discussion of important designs plus a complete bibliography covering publications in all languages.

The Design Encyclopedia

Reference

Byars, Mel

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

wiley

The speed at which technology is currently advancing has made the creation of electronic products one of the most prolific and fascinating areas of contemporary design. Product styling, too, is increasingly innovative, even fun; the "black box" is finally a thing of the past as manufacturers vie to make their products more appealing to style-conscious consumers. This book brings together over one hundred examples of the latest, most sophisticated electronic devices, including domestic appliances, televisions, computers, telephones, cameras, sound equipment, timepieces, and the latest in wearable technology. The products are drawn from manufacturers and designers internationally and are described with full technical detail and clearly illustrated by color photography and annotated drawings. Products featured range from a robotic lawnmower to the thinnest wall-mounted television monitor; from a combined wristwatch and MP3 player, to a household internet device that allows comunication between kitchen appliances. As well as products already in mass production, a number of concept models are included, revealing designers' future visions for microwave ovens, communication devices, and even a humanoid robot. On/Off provides a fascinating review of the cutting edge of contemporary product-design thinking for professional designers, students, and anyone intrigued by high-tech gadgetry and new technology.

On/Off: New Electronic Products

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Universe

The most collectible of furniture, chairs are a visual symbol of their period. New Chairs offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide, perfect for the postmodern, high-tech, high-concept age. Chairs by top-tier designers such as Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli sit side-by-side with those of up-and-comers who are contributing fresh and edgy designs to the field. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of utility are all present. Inflatable, sculptural, and illuminated chairs apply imaginative dimensions to this ubiquitous object. New Chairs includes concept drawings, prototypes, manufacturing details, and insights into the creative process in the designers' own words, all accompanied by color photos of each piece making this the most complete survey to date of contemporary chair design.

New Chairs: Innovations in Design, Technology, and Materials

Chronicle Books+

With often rare photographs and drawings, this volume documents some of the most distinguished modern chair designs--most of which occupy key positions in the development of furniture design. Many of this century's most innovative, even outrageous chairs are presented, giving readers an inside look at the design process. 100 full-color illustrations.

50 Chairs: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro Design)

Architecture

Whitney Library of Design

When the creation of the tools we all use in our everyday lives is placed in the hands of today's imaginative, adept designers, the results will range from the adorable to the plain-Jane, the light-hearted to the sober. A range of their efforts over the past decade is presented in 50 Products: Innovations in Design and Materials, a summary of utilitarian objects which offer more than the expected feature of function. The designers and manufacturers, who know that good design concerns more than shape and color, have rallied a wide range of brand-new and traditional technologies and materials for the creation of practical goods. The details of the production processes are clearly revealed through the use of hundreds of manufacturing photographs, drawings, and very little text. Design historian Mel Byars - teacher, lecturer, and author of The Design Encyclopedia - has developed a simple, colorful graphic-design system especially for this and the other volumes in the Pro-Design Series.

50 Products: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro-Design Series)

Decorative Arts & Design

Rotovision

The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast, art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries, and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history of design been attempted--in 1994, also by Mel Byars. The Encyclopedia is about design, of course, but these days “design” seems to encompass almost everything, from magazine layouts and sweatshirts to animatronic flower gardens and heart pumps, not to mention the more abstract “information design.” Here, however, design is considered only in its concrete application to functional objects, thus crossing with craft, decorative arts, and industrial design, but distinguishing itself from fine art and theory. The result is 832 pages covering the last 130 years in the history of the design of furniture, lighting, fabrics, ceramics, glassware, metalware, objects in a range of other materials, and mechanical, electrical and electronic appliances, as well as automobiles and some inventions. There are separate entries for designers and craftspeople, design studios, consortiums and partnerships, noteworthy manufacturers, significant historical periods and styles, and materials. Entries, 3,600 in all, are self-contained and organized alphabetically, and include cross-references. Information is an amalgamation of data gathered from a vast number of primary and secondary sources. With over 700 full-color illustrations, most of which are drawn from the MoMA collection, the remainder from Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen in Munich and Hamburg or directly from designers or manufacturers, this publication is an invaluable, definitive compendium of the world of design over the last century and a half.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The 20th century was the age of steel. Today, steel is ubiquitous and, as a result, frequently taken for granted. Not only is it the material of choice for 75 percent of all domestic appliances—from toasters to washing machines—but it is fast replacing luxury metals such as silver, particularly in cutlery and tableware. Household objects in steel from internationally renowned firms such as Alessi are set to become tomorrow’s heirlooms. Time and again designers are choosing steel because it is long-lasting, scratch-resistant, corrosion-resistant and requires no painting. Above all, it sparkles. 
Showcasing more than 100 high-design products from around the world, this is the first book to celebrate contemporary design in steel. Organized by designer or manufacturer, and featuring work by well-known and lesser known names alike, it is as much a survey of current design thinking as it is a book about steel. Products include furniture, kitchenware, tableware, bathroom fittings, lighting, desk accessories, even textiles. Full technical details as well as personal comments from the designers themselves accompany color photographs of each product. 
Inspirational, informative and engagingly written, Design in Steel will fascinate professional designers, students and design-conscious consumers everywhere.

Design in Steel

History & Criticism

Laurence King Pub

Everyone is interested in design nowadays; figures like Philippe Starck are as venerated and well known as more traditional artists. But where the literature on fine art is vast, design is still conparatively ill-served. This encyclopaedia provides an account of the still largely unknown story of design.

Design Encyclopedia : The Museum of Modern Art

Riley, Terence

Photographs and drawings document some of the most distinguished modern chair designs, accompanied by details on the conception and production of some of the most famous examples from the 20th century.

50 chairs: Innovations in design and materials (Prodesign series)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Watson-Guptill Pubs

Hundreds of color photographs, many taken especially for this book, reveal the state-of-the-art of the table as it has been distinctively interpreted by some of the most talented and accomplished designers in the world. The examples in 50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials have been chosen from the production of the past decade and are presented in a clear, graphic style with intentionally minimal text. If you think of tables as solely utilitarian and practical tools, 50 Tables will no doubt expand your universe. They range from the highly engineered, intricate, and expensive to the practical, simple, and cheap. They inflate, extend, flip, rise, lower, or, for storage and transport, fold or come apart. Some are deadly serious designs while others are amusingly outlandish ones. And there are even tables sold only as legs for which you furnish the top surface. The efforts of designers worldwide - including those from North and South America, Europe, Australia and Japan - are presented through means of a clear, colorful coded graphic system which was created to organize the examples into easy-to-find categories.

50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro Design)

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The Design Encyclopedia

On/Off: New Electronic Products

New Chairs: Innovations in Design, Technology, and Materials

50 Chairs: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro Design)

50 Products: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro-Design Series)

The Design Encyclopedia

Design in Steel

Design Encyclopedia : The Museum of Modern Art

50 chairs: Innovations in design and materials (Prodesign series)

50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro Design)