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50 Cars That Changed the World by Design Museum
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: Design Museum Fifty
Everything around us is designed. Design has the ability to transform environments, bring about social change, improve our quality of life. It can be exciting or frivolous, bold or subtle, daring or loud. The car is no exception. For more than a century, the car has adapted and transformed, and has been ...Show more
Design Museum Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World by Alex Newson
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Design Museum Fifty
The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial model ...Show more
Design Museum Fifty Fashion Looks That Changed the 1990s by Design Museum
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include Jimmy Choo, Jil Sander, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marc Jacobs, Princess Diana (post-divorce), Kate Moss, Corinne Day, Grunge, Naomi Campbell, ...Show more
Design Museum Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World by John L. Walters
Category: Art and Design | Series: Design Museum Fifty
The digital revolution has made typesetters of us all as we define our identities through the typefaces we choose to communicate with the world. In this witty and insightful book John L Waters explores 50 of the most influential typefaces and shows them in use on posters, perfume packaging, buildings an ...Show more
Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World by Alex Newson
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Design Museum Fifty
The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport, and its design has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial models, the bicycle means different things to different people, from a means ...Show more
Fifty Dresses That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty by Design Museum
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
Fashion design is both an industrial and cultural phenomenon. It stretches from the glamorous catwalks of fashion epicentres, to the industrial factories in far-flung countries. It is ever-changing, and reflects the desires and aspirations of society. It discovers and capitalizes on advances in technolo ...Show more
Fifty Fashion Designers That Changed the World by The Design Museum
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
In the world of fashion trends come and go, but the work of a small number of designers has survived to stand the test of time. From pioneers such as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to the era-defining figures of Alexander McQueen and Paul Smith, explore the stories and examine the work of the 50 most in ...Show more
Fifty Fashion Looks That Changed the 1970s by Paula Reed
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty Ser.
Curated by Grazia magazine's Style Director, Paula Reed, this beautifully designed new title takes a fresh look at key pieces in fashion history from the 1970s. From Bianca Jagger in Halston and Diane Von Furstenberg's first wrap dress to the rise of punk and Biba, it outlines and details the most influ ...Show more
Fifty Fashion Looks That Changed the 1980s by Paula Reed
Category: Design | Series: Design Museum Fifty
This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include Katherine Hamnett, Manolo Blahnik, Annie Lennox, Princess Diana (pre-divorce), Bodymap, John Galliano, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Prada, ...Show more
Fifty Hats That Changed the World by Design Museum
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty Ser.
Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Hats That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 hats and headwear that have made a substantial impact in the world of fashion and design today. ...Show more
Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World by The Design Museum
Category: Architecture | Series: Design Museum Fifty
The history of modern architecture is as diverse as it is beautiful, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye ...Show more
Fifty Shoes That Changed the World by The Design Museum
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? "Fifty Shoes That Changed the World" imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 shoe designs that have made a substantial impact in the world of design today. From the 1863 ...Show more