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New York: Allworth Press, 2003. xi, 243 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. *** CONTENTS: "This pioneering guide traces the entire history of industrial design, industrialization, and mass production from 1850 until today. Sixty comprehensive essays written by designers, theorists, advertisers, historians, and curators detail the most crucial movements, issues, and accomplishments of industrial design. They combine news reports on the very first design workshops, aesthetic manifestos, lectures, and more from the biggest names in the field: William Morris, Henry Dreyfuss, and Victor Papanek, to name only a few. The Industrial Design Reader is an excellent resource for educators, students, and practicing designers." - Publisher. *** 1851-1875: "On the international results of the Exhibition of 1851", by Henry Cole, 1852; "The law of adaptation", by Horatio Greenough, 1852; "The nature of gothic", by John Ruskin, 1853; Grammar…
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