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From Alvar Aalto to virtual reality design, and from authoritative reference information to innovative scholarly research, the Bloomsbury Design Library provides unrivalled coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day.
Including a fast-expanding range of full-text content and images, underpinned by a specially developed taxonomy, the Bloomsbury Design Library is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers in Visual Arts and Design.
What's included? The Bloomsbury Design Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad and expanding range of encyclopedias, reference works, e-books, images, and more:
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
*Named as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2016*
General Editor: Clive Edwards, Loughborough University
Subject Editors: Harriet Atkinson, University of Brighton, UK; Dipti Bhagat, London Metropolitan University, UK; Sarah Kettley, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Sorcha O'Brien, Kingston University, UK; David Raizman, Drexel University, USA; Anne-Marie Willis, The German University in Cairo, Egypt.
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design comprises over 1700 authoritative reference articles by leading international design scholars on key topics in design studies and design history, providing comprehensive coverage of disciplines, designers, schools, movements and styles, national design histories and methods and processes.
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World History of Design
Author: Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. A graduate of English literature and film from Columbia University, Victor went on to obtain a PhD in design history from the Union Graduate School a non-traditional institution based in Cincinnati. His dissertation was on the graphic design of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Margolin began teaching art and design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1982 and remained there until his retirement in 2006. Victor is a founder editor of the academic design journal Design Issues, and the author and editor of many books, including Design Discourse (1989), The Idea of Design (1995), Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (1995), and The Designed World: Images, Objects, Environments (Berg, 2010). In 1997 he published The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946 and in 1992 a volume of his own articles, The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies. Early in the current century, Victor began work on a comprehensive global history of design, the first two volumes of which were published in 2015.
Margolin was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the organizers of the LearnXDesign conference in Chicago in 2015, for his 'exemplary contributions to design history, research, education and practice' and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Design Research Society in 2016.
This magisterial history tells the story of crafts, decorative arts, graphic and industrial design from prehistoric times to the end of World War II. These two richly-illustrated volumes are exclusively available in digital form in the Bloomsbury Design Library.
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eBook Collection
The Bloomsbury Design Library features more than 60 eBooks in design and crafts, with a broad coverage of topics in design and craft history, national design traditions, design theory and criticism.
Books by leading scholars including Glenn Adamson, Tony Fry, John Heskett, Penny Sparke, Judith Attfield and Nigel Cross are fully indexed and cross-searchable by keyword using our custom taxonomy.
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