20ft Century Design History by Sarah Teasley and Chiharu Watabe

摘要

Sarah Teasley and Chiharu Watabe's 20th Century Design History is a compact, attractively designed book that provides chronologically organized case studies and color images of key works, figures, materials, and institutions that shaped-or that were typical of-the twentieth century's shifting styles, production processes, and distribution channels. Although its glossy, colorful pages and short blocks of text make it look at first glance like a non-scholarly "greatest hits" compilation, its text in fact provides useful critical analysis. And, as its chronological rather than alphabetical arrangement implies, it focuses much less on named designers than does a work such as Charlotte and Peter Fiell's Industrial Design A-Z.