Tells the story of Japanese design through works selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This book traces the development of Japanese design from the country's craft revival in the early twentieth century to the extraordinary objects of high technology that have been a specialty of Japanese designers since midcentury.

Beyond any romantic declaration of Italians' secret to success is the exceptional effectiveness of Italian modern design. This book highlights Italian design. It provides an overview of Italy's design culture; an essay by Giampiero Bosoni that illuminates the masterpieces of modern Italian design reproduced in the volume's plate section.

American design, like much of American culture, perennially oscillates between populism and elitism, between the revolutionary beauty and availability of Tupperware and the exclusivity of Tiffany's. This book traces the development of American design from the 'armory practice' of early American machinists to the branded, consumer-oriented design.

The Typographers Guide to the Galaxy. .

This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer's career, featuring realized and unrealized projects.

Design Takes on Risk. Distributed on behalf of The Museum of Modern Art. Features designs and objects in areas such as protective gear, everyday safety devices, emergency shelters, life support equipment, bioengineering and emergency vehicles. Exhibition Dates: 7 October 2005 - 2 January 2006.

Features 100 masterpieces of design, those small objects we use daily from tea bags to paperclips to hairpins. This book portrays each object in detail with an informative text on its origin and special design features, as well as a silhouette image of the object as we usually see it. It celebrates our everyday lives in a different way.

A monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, it presents an overview of his career, featuring realized and unrealized project. While the main texts explains Ross Lovegrove's philosophy and way of working, the products descriptions reveal the main feature and characteristic of every project.