5th Edition
An Introduction to Design and Culture 1900 to the Present
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
Biography
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and the Director of the 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.
