The Design BookBig Ideas Simply Explained\nAuthor(s): DK\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: DK\nISBN-13: 9780241257074, 978-0241257074\nSynopsis\nDiscover the key ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs in the history of design.\n\nThis book is the perfect introduction to the subject. It explores and explains the big ideas and key principles behind more than 90 celebrated design concepts and movements, placing each in its historical, cultural, and stylistic context.\n\nThe Design Book analyses the ideas and principles behind the design of pioneering products,\ninformation systems and environments, exploring how creativity and innovation shape our lives,from the aesthetic movement to mid-century modern and contemporary parametricism.\n\nIn this book, you will find: \n\nThe evolution of design from ancient times, through early manufacturing to the cutting-edge concepts of the 21st-century.\nProfiles of the individuals and manufacturers behind .