The products of industry are omnipresent; at home, in the street, they form the man-made landscape of our lives. The author's highly original, broadly based approach shows how many and how diverse are the forces that have shaped the manufactured forms surrounding us during the past two centuries: the creativity of individual designers and design teams, technical innovations, economic and social pressures, and always the simultaneous and conflicting demands for continuity and change. 180 illus.
- ISBN13 9780500201817
- Publish Date 3 November 1980 (first published 1 October 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English