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The Industrial Design Reader

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The book arrived within the same week from the day purchased. The books is in excellent conditions, like new! A real pleasure making business with.

This anthology is the first to focus on the history of industrial design, providing essays written by designers, policy makers, critics and historians on the topic. From the introduction of industrial design in the 1850s to its present mass production, this provides a fine selection of writings by Nader, Fuller, Wright and other leaders in the field.

Carma has put together a good collection of stories that are indicative of the nature of Industrial Design. Excellent resource for anyone interested in the field. Should be required reading for all incoming college freshman.

Even though the information in this book is valuable, you will first need to take a crash course on 19th century British English the way it was used back then. The book is hard to read for someone who speaks American English. I had to re-read articles, especially the oldest ones. Trying to figure out what the point was.
I would recommend someone to completely rewrite the articles, preserving the message and translating it for the modern man.