"By defining the essentials of a work of art and studying machine processes, he arrirves at practical principles for the creation of works of art through industrial design." -- back cover.

With essays written by some of the greatest designers, visionaries, policy makers, theorists, critics and historians of the past two centuries, this book traces the history of industrial design, industrialization, and mass production in the ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

This book is about those industrial designers and how they founded, developed, educated and organized today's profession of more than 50,000 practitioners.

Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.