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History of Design
design
design, plan or arrangement of line, form, mass, color, and space in a pattern. A design may be created to serve a functional purpose as in architecture and in industrial designs or else purely to provide aesthetic pleasure. The design may refer to preparatory stages for a work of art (see drawing; cartoon) or it may be extended to include the compositional elements in a finished work of art.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital
Steven Heller; Seymour Chwast. Harry N. Abrams, 2000 (New edition)
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Steven Heller; Seymour Chwast. Harry N. Abrams, 2000 (New edition)
The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
Paul Betts. University of California Press, 2004
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Paul Betts. University of California Press, 2004
Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women & Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1940
Marilyn Ferris Motz; Pat Browne. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988
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Marilyn Ferris Motz; Pat Browne. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988
The Changing Consumer: Markets and Meanings
Steven Miles; Alison Anderson; Kevin Meethan. Routledge, 2002
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Steven Miles; Alison Anderson; Kevin Meethan. Routledge, 2002
Librarian’s tip: Chap. 7 "Consuming Design, Consuming Retro"
Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe
Susan E. Reid; David Crowley. Berg, 2000
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Susan E. Reid; David Crowley. Berg, 2000
Homemaking and the Aesthetic and Moral Perimeters of the Soviet Home during the Khrushchev Era
Varga-Harris, Christine. Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, No. 3, Spring 2008
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Varga-Harris, Christine. Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, No. 3, Spring 2008
Women in the Nineteenth-Century Art World: Schools of Art and Design for Women in London and Philadelphia
F. Graeme Chalmers. Greenwood Press, 1998
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F. Graeme Chalmers. Greenwood Press, 1998
A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction to Defuturing
Tony Fry. University of New South Wales Press, 1999
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Tony Fry. University of New South Wales Press, 1999