{"product_id":"the-design-encyclopedia","title":"The Design Encyclopedia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars  in consultation with an international team of design experts  The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast  art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries  and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history of design been attempted--in 1994  also by Mel Byars. The Encyclopedia is about design  of course  but these days design seems to encompass almost everything  from magazine layouts and sweatshirts to animatronic flower gardens and heart pumps  not to mention the more abstract information design. Here  however  design is considered only in its concrete application to functional objects  thus crossing with craft  decorative arts  and industrial design  but distinguishing itself from fine art and theory. The result is 832 pages covering the last 130 years in the history of the design of furniture  lighting  fabrics  ceramics  glassware  metalware  objects in a range of other materials  and mechanical  electrical and electronic appliances  as well as automobiles and some inventions. There are separate entries for designers and craftspeople  design studios  consortiums and partnerships  noteworthy manufacturers  significant historical periods and styles  and materials. Entries  3 600 in all  are self-contained and organized alphabetically  and include cross-references. Information is an amalgamation of data gathered from a vast number of primary and secondary sources. With over 700 full-color illustrations  most of which are drawn from the MoMA collection  the remainder from Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen in Munich and Hamburg or directly from designers or manufacturers  this publication is an invaluable  definitive compendium of the world of design over the last century and a half.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945772347445,"sku":"ByrdShop_087070012X","price":33.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780870700125.jpg?v=1769910152","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-design-encyclopedia","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}