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Car Design (Designpocket)
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Product Description
The automobile has always been as much about style as engineering, not simply a means of transportation but a status symbol meant to impress others and project the success of its owner. Car Design is a comprehensive collection of photographs from European, Japanese, and American automobile advertising campaigns of the last fifty years. Lavishly illustrated with over 400 color and black and white photos of distinctively designed automobiles, this compendium can be viewed as a decade-by-decade chronicle of consumer culture since World War II or as an amusing look at car culture for enthusiasts.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #626401 in Books
- Published on: 2004-06-01
- Original language: German, English, Spanish, French
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Paolo Tumminelli is the founder of "Goodbrands" and a professor of design at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. He has written for Domus and is currently writing for the European design magazine Form.
Customer Reviews
Terrible
Anyone who has even the slightest interest in car design should look elsewhere - anywhere - other than here: this is little more than a collection of largely stock images accompanied by a sparse text that that seems to have been deliberated over for, ooh, literally minutes - even making allowance for the quadrilingual text.
I wasn't expecting this to explore the topic in depth, but did expect to be entertained and some insights / interesting nuggets of information; but what little commentary there is is a superficial, unsubstantiated polemic. what I've seen, the other books in this series are equally bad.
This subject is not well documented and this book does not advance this one iota - far better to invest a little more in one of the Car Design Yearbooks. Not that you even need to do that '20th Century Car Design' by Hilton Holloway and Martin Buckley & 'A Century of Car Design' by Penny Sparke are both superior AND cheaper.
It gets one star only because it's mandatory...
