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Hello Kitty, Toyota, Issey Miyake evidence of Japanese design surrounds us, but we know little about the design industries, education, or consumer industries in Japan itself. Placing key developments in fashion, textiles, graphics, vehicles, and crafts into their broader historical context, Sarah Teasley demonstrates how modern Japanese design is at once a local phenomenon, forged from conditions and historical moments in Japan and East Asia, and a global one, illuminating trends and issues worldwide.Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, Designing Modern...

Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale, placed into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Topics included are: the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of 'import substitution' German design in the context of empire handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey the international circulation of contemporary architects. Features leading design historians, each...