Introduction to Design and Culture - 1900 to the Present

An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day with an emphasis on five main themes. This fifth edition extends the traditional definition of design to embrace its more recent manifestations.

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1
Design and modernity, 1900-1945
1. Consuming modernity
2. The impacts of technology
3. The designer for industry
4. Modernism and design
5. Designing identities
Part 2
Design and Post-modernity, 1945-1990
6. Consuming post-modernity
7. Technology and design, a new alliance
8. Designer-culture
9. Postmodernism and design
10. Redefining identities
Part 3
Designing the new century, 1990 to the present
11. Consumer culture at the millennium
12. Design in the digital age
13. New designers
14. Theory and practice in the new century
15. Designing identities in a globalised world
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and the Director of Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century design and the modern interior with a special interest in the role of gender.

Product details

• Authors: Penny Sparke, Sparke Penny
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032849034
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284903-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, DESIGN / History & Criticism, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Humanities, Industrial / commercial art & design, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, The arts: general topics