Design: The Key Concepts [Hardcover]

This is the essential students guide to Design  its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including:

• international design  from Europe to Africa
• design history  from Art Nouveau to punk
• sustainable design, recycling and green design
• design theory  from semiotics to gender, to postcolonialism
• design technology, graphic design and the web.

Fully cross-referenced, with up-to-date guides for further reading, Design: The Key Concepts is an indispensable reference for students of design, design history, fashion, art and visual culture.

This is the essential students guide to Design  its practice, its theory and its history. Respected design writer Catherine McDermott draws from a wide range of international examples.

'This work provides a great starting point for gaining understanding of the topic.' -- Choice, A. J. Dutka, Broward Community College