This author delves into a wide spectrum of design disciplines, from product and industrial design to fashion and architecture. Their work focuses on exploring products and their societal impact, emphasizing visual aesthetics and functionality. Through their analyses, they offer deep insights into the evolution of design trends and their historical context. Their contribution lies in the systematic documentation and presentation of pivotal moments in design history.
Today, the sari manifests as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. Since the exhibition will focus on the sari in urban India, the book will follow suit in terms of this remit.
This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include AnnaWintour, Manolo Blahnik, Annie Lennox, Princess Diana (pre divorce), Bodymap, John Galliano, BOY, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sanders, Donna Karan, Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux, Bruce Oldfield, Jasper Conran, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaia. With Paula Reed's lively and informative text and a wealth of fabulous photography, it is vital reading for design students, collectors of vintage, and everyone who truly loves fashion.
How to Design a Light tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing a light. In a working case study Arnold Chan, one of the world's best-known lighting designers, traces the design and development of one of his installation at the London restaurant Hakkasan, and reveals exactly what is involved in creating a successful design.
Fifty Chairs That Changed the World switches the scene indoors, taking an up-close look at the chair designs-from Thonet's elegantly workaday bistro chair no. 14, of 1870, to the more outrageous creations of present-day designers-that have had the greatest impact on the look and feel of modern interiors.
You don't have to be a fashionista or a design aficionado to adore this fascinating look at the power of one dress to change society.Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design.Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.