The Story of Art — Design

Author: (German) Thomas Hoff
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: The primary purpose of this book is to invite you to experience the infinite joy of a certain art form. It attempts to guide you into a wonderful world of art with encyclopedic clarity, novel-like readability, and album-like appeal! It fills the gap between professional and leisure books. Design is everywhere, but there is a vast distance between high-level professional textbooks and the charming coffee table guides that are everywhere. This is rarely discussed. This book can fill this gap. It systematically introduces the history of design with novel-like readability and contrasts and explains the connections between international politics and culture through rich illustrations. This book does not attempt to provide an encyclopedic list of designers and design companies but rather uses "design" as a main thread of development and the factors influencing its development. Additionally, the brief text discusses important designers and design companies and provides relevant examples of decisive turning points in design history, which helps us understand an era and its special significance.