An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day.

Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and the Director of Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century design and the modern interior with a special interest in the role of gender.

Introduction: Design and Culture revisited

PART I: Design and Modernity, 1900-1945

1. Consuming Modernity
2. The Impacts of Technology
3. The Designer for Industry
4. Modernism and Design
5. Designing Identities

PART II: Design and Post-modernity, 1945-1990

6. Consuming Post-modernity
7. Technology and Design, a New Alliance
8. Designer-culture
9. Post-modernism and Design
10. Redesigning Identities

PART III: Designing the New Century, 1990 to the present

11. Consumer Culture at the Millenium
12. Design in the Digital Age
13. New Designers
14. Theory and Practice in the New Century
15. Designing Identities in a Globalised World