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336 pages :

illustrations, portraits.

Summary: Discover the key ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs in the history of design. This book explores and explains the big ideas and key principles behind more than 90 celebrated design concepts and movements, placing each in its historical, cultural, and stylistic context. It analyses the ideas and principles behind the design of pioneering products, information systems and environments, exploring how creativity and innovation shape our lives, from the Aesthetic Movement to Mid-century Modern and contemporary Parametricism.

Big ideas simply explained.