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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deyan SudjicPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 11.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 18.10cm Weight: 0.156kg ISBN: 9780141031170ISBN 10: 0141031174 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 27 August 2009 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn elegant, witty and free-ranging survey of industrial product design from Thomas Chippendale's ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive's sprightly Macintosh iBooks Telegraph Sudjic's book rebukes designers for their arrogance and increasing self-importance ... readable, sharp and worthwhile FT The Language of Things is a happy trot through the colourful landscape formed by design's eternal alternation between use and allure Evening Standard Deyan Sudjic presents us with a nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects ... witty, well observed and wide-ranging Guardian As a confessional, the book is witty and honest, and Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators Royal Academy magazine Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable ... a very nice object in itself ... much in here for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us Time Out An elegant, witty and free-ranging survey of industrial product design from Thomas Chippendale's ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive's sprightly Macintosh iBooks Telegraph Sudjic's book rebukes designers for their arrogance and increasing self-importance ... readable, sharp and worthwhile FT The Language of Things is a happy trot through the colourful landscape formed by design's eternal alternation between use and allure Evening Standard Deyan Sudjic presents us with a nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects ... witty, well observed and wide-ranging Guardian As a confessional, the book is witty and honest, and Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators Royal Academy magazine Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable ... a very nice object in itself ... much in here for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us Time Out Author InformationDeyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and the Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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