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This provides information on the lives and work of the most significant and most influential designers of our era. Selected from throughout the world by an international advisory board, they are the individuals who have done the most to shape the visual and tactile form of our everyday world. Designers from the fields of graphics, interiors, fashion, stage, film, houseware, textile and industrial design are included.

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CHOICE Review

The second edition of Contemporary Designers, from a different publisher, is much handsomer, with good semigloss paper and clear black-and-white reproductions, almost a third of which are later than 1985 (1st ed., CH, Sep'85). The book is international in scope and covers most fields including graphic, industrial, product, fashion, textile, interior, film, stage, and set and costume design. The selection of entrants, as before, is based on recommendations of a board of internationally recognized advisors. The number of entries has been slightly increased. Around 55 have been removed (why Dior and Mies van der Rohe?), and 75 added. The entries have been expanded and updated. In addition to including a personal and professional biography, a list of works, and publications on and by the entrant, they now include a statement (where possible) by the entrant and an evaluative essay by one of 125 critics and historians. Editor Colin Naylor was the assistant editor of the previous edition. It would definitely be worthwhile to buy this edition but to keep the first for the omitted entrants. For all art and academic libraries, lower-division undergraduate and up. -P. Brauch, Brooklyn College, CUNY