Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial context in which this relationship developed. The effects of a vastly enlarged audience for the products of modern design and the complex dynamic of mass consumption are also discussed. Part of this dynamic reveals that products serve as signs for desires that have little to do with need or function. The book also explores the impact of a wealth of new man-made industrial materials and tools on the course of modern design - from steel to titanium, plywood to plastic, cotton to nylon, wire to transistors,and microprocessors to nanotubes. The research, development and applications of these technologies are shown as depending upon far-reaching lines of communication stretching across geographical and linguistic boundaries.

Extensively revised and expanded for this second edition, History of Modern Design is an inclusive, well-balanced introduction to a field of increasing scholarly and interdisciplinary research, and provides students in design with historical perspectives of their chosen fields of study.

PART I:   Demand, Supply, and Design (1700–1800)

PART II: Expansion and Taste (1801–1865)

PART III: Arts, Crafts, and Machines – Industrialization:
Hopes and Fears (1866–1914)

PART IV: After World War I: Art, Industry, and Utopias

PART V: Humanism and Luxury: International Modernism and Mass Culture after World War II (1945–1960)

PART VI: Progress, Protest, and Pluralism 1961–2010

**部分：需求，供应和设计（1700-1800）

第二部分：扩展和味觉（1801至65年）

第三部分：礼品，工艺品和机具 - 产业化：
希望和恐惧（1866年至1914年）

第四部分：**次世界大战后：艺术，工业，和乌托邦

第五部分：人文主义和豪华国际后现代主义与大众文化第二次世界大战（1945-1960）

第六部分：进度，抗议和多元论1961至2010年

About the Author
David Raizman is a professor in the Department of Visual Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia.