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Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphic design, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed side by side with Nike’s latest ads, this book presents a sweeping look at today’s most progressive graphic trends-from signage and packaging to branding and web-design.

Tento prehľad dizajnu 20. storočia predstavuje koncepcie, štýly, hnutia, školy, firmy a inštitúcie, ktoré určovali trendy rozvoja teórie i praxe dizajnu, boli novátorské pri hľadaní tvarov i materiálov a technických prostriedkov i procesov a zároveň ovplyvňovali vkus a históriu štýlov aplikovaného umenia v kulôtúre a všeobecne v spoločnosti. A samozrejme sa tu predstavujú aj tí, ktorí na tom pracovali – dizajnéri. Autori venovali pozornosť návrhom nábytku, textílií, skla, keramiky, výrobkom z kovu, priemyselným výrobkom a úžitkovej grafike. Okrem toho chceli autori predvedením tejto mnohotvárnosti dizajnu ukázať, že predstavy a hodnoty zastávané jednotlivými autormi a výrobcami majú len obmedzenú platnosť a neustále podliehajú zmenám.

Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here—Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary—in 704 pages of truly illuminated works.

More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel&894 from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant garde armchairs.