Digital Design: A History
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Digital Design: A History
By (Author) Stephen J. Eskilson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th October 2023
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of art
744.0285
Physical Properties
Hardback
296
Width 191mm, Height 279mm
Description
A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to today
Digital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all aspects of our lives.
We live in a time when silicon processors, miniaturization, and CAD-enhanced 3D design have transformed the tangible world of cars and coffee makers as well as the screen world on our phones, computers, and game systems. Eskilson provides invaluable historical perspective to help readers better understand how digital design has become such a vibrant feature of the contemporary landscape. He covers topics ranging from graphic and product design to type, web design, architecture, data visualization, and virtual reality. Along the way, he paints compelling portraits of key innovators behind this transformation, from foundational figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and April Greiman to those mapping new frontiers, such as Sepandar Kamvar, Jeanne Gang, Karim Rashid, Neri Oxman, and Jony Ive.
Bringing together an unprecedented array of sources on digital design, this comprehensive and richly illustrated book reveals how many of the digital practices we think of as the cutting-edge actually originated in the analog age and how the history of digital design is as much about our changing relationship to forms as the forms themselves.
Author Bio
Stephen J. Eskilson is professor of art and design history at Eastern Illinois University. His books include Graphic Design: A New History and The Age of Glass: A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture.
