{"product_id":"the-invention-of-design-a-twentieth-century-history-hardcover","title":"The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a brilliant cultural historian, a fascinating history of the twentieth century told through the story of design and its utopian promises \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fascinating, rigorously researched.\" ―\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It's seen as a kind of mega-power, one that can solve all our problems and elevate our experiences to make a more beautiful, more functional world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But there's a backstory here. In \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Design\u003c\/i\u003e, designer and historian Maggie Gram investigates how, over the twentieth century, our economic hopes, fears, and fantasies shaped the idea of \"design\"--then repeatedly redefined it. Nearly a century ago, resistance to New Deal-era government intervention helped transform design from an idea about aesthetics into one about function. And at century's end, the dot-com crash brought us \"design thinking\" the idea that design methodology can solve any problem, small or large. To this day, design captures imaginations as a tool for fixing market society's broken parts from within, supposedly enabling us to thrive within capitalism's sometimes violent constraints. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A captivating critical history, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Design\u003c\/i\u003e shows how design became the hero of many of our most hopeful stories--dreams, fantasies, utopias--about how we might better live in a modern world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51323854586079,"sku":"9781541600638","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eUzzxGk4mN9781541600638.webp?v=1788422367","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-invention-of-design-a-twentieth-century-history-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}