Conran Directory of Design

Who is designing the classics of tomorrow? What inspires them, frustrates them, excites them? Designers on Design answers these questions and discusses the elements that set great designers apart. A beautifully illustrated guide to today's cutting-edge furniture and product designers, it features interviews with each of the designers asking them questions such as "What product do you wish you had designed?," "What was your big break?," "What influences your work?" and "What's the greatest challenge you face in your work?" A potted biography introduces each designer and beautiful photographs illustrate not only the designer's own work, but also the influences that inspire them and sketches of their ideas in progress. This is the first book to really get inside the creative mind of today's most successful designers. Designers on Design places each designer in historical context. An extensive illustrated time-line running from the 1900s to the present day-and even looking into the future-forms part of the introduction and shows that the modernism of 100 years ago is still influential today.Conran, Terence is the author of 'Conran Directory of Design', published 2004 under ISBN 9781840914009 and ISBN 1840914009.