An Introduction to Design and Culture

An Introduction to Design and Culture provides students with an comprehensive guide to the changing relationship between design and culture from 1900 to the present day, with an emphasis on five main themes:

•  design and consumption;

•  design and technology;

•  the design profession;

•  design theory; and

•  design and identities.

Design is defined broadly to cover product and furniture design, interior design, fashion design and graphic design. The new edition is international in scope and emphasises the increasingly global role played by design as it gets nearer to the present day.

Taking a broadly chronological approach, Professor Sparke employs historical methods to show how these themes were all ...

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