A Century of Great Gadget Design: Phaidon’s Design Classics

Phaidon , publisher of the well - looking books on the satellite , just released Pioneers , Mass Production , and New Technologies , three volume each containing 333 of the most imposingly designed objects of the last 100 . Here are 12 contrivance that made the cut .

The books move loosely through the 20th C — though they also check some physical object that were devised in the 19th century , and others that a certain Mr. I ve and Mr. Jobs cooked up since the yr 2000 . We skipped over all the Apple stuff , and much of the classic Braun and Bang & Olufsen objets de technical school that you commonly receive in widget retrospectives . We looked profoundly into the list , to regain circumstantially wondrous physical object of great plan . ( We also skipped about a million unlike chairs — according to these books , designers drop more time thinking about where to park their seat than any other quandary in human account . )

Needless to say , the books are unbelievably gorgeous and informative , and the juxtaposition of so many varied products gift you new insight into what designers think about .

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All three Word of God are published this year byPhaidonas a serial . They list for $ 40 each , but gratefully Amazon is selling them for a lot less ( see below ) . While it makes sensation to perhaps buy just one , it ’s hard to pick just one , and not just because the products are numbered from 1 to 999 , with each volume covering one third . To simplify things perhaps too much , Pioneers covers archetypal designs we now take for granted , Mass Production include all of the smartly conceived products we grew up with , and New Technologies impart design up to date with contributions from the consumer electronics and reckoner businesses . As much as the third intensity sound fits our readership , it ’s almost more exciting to see how the legacies of the earlier product intention bowel movement informed the unexampled technical school .

• Pioneers onAmazon for $ 26.37

• Mass Production onAmazon for $ 26.37

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