The New Design Source Book

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co, repr 1995. ISBN 9780316913960; size 26x26cm; 224 full colour pages, incl. index, plus decorative (brown print) endpapers. Hard cover, plus dust wrapper

Authors: Felice Hodges, Emma Demnt Coad, Anne Stone, Penny Sparke, Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Condition: VG++ hard cover with no marks; dust wrapper one tear back flap, taped up. No other flaws.

A visual reference to design from 1850 to the present day

The updated edition of the best selling visual reference resource

...an absorbing, authoritative and, above all, visual reference resource that builds on the depth of coverage of the original edition by taking full account of the many varied and important developments that have taken place in the design world over the past years.

It shows, for instance, how, since the affluent mid-1980s, design has responded to economic, technological and social change, with the birth of such concepts as Green Design, the emergence of Neo Modernism as the human face of Post Modernism and the coming of age of the desktop computer as an essential  (indespensible) design tool in the 21st century.

...by identifying and isolating the key elements of design, ... is the essential interpreter, making sense of all the many elements that have affected design from the mid 19th century up to 1990s and beyond.