The first systematic and comprehensive reader on Design History, this book examines the role of design and designed objects within social and cultural history.

How do we learn about the objects that surround us? As well as gathering sensory information by viewing and using objects, we also learn about objects through t

From the lost art of show-card writing and the tumultuous days of guerrilla magazine publishing to the latest in electronic leaflet design and hot magazine cove

This groundbreaking anthology is the first to focus exclusively on the history of industrial design. With essays written by some of the greatest designers, visi

A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons,