An Introduction to Design and Culture, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgements

This book could not have been written without all the support and stimulation I received over eighteen years spent teaching on the joint Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum History of Design Programme. My thanks go to all the staff I worked with there, among them Dr Gillian Naylor, Professor Jeremy Aynsley, Professor Christopher Breward, John Styles, Marta Ajmar and Helen Clifford. Special thanks go to the many visiting scholars – too numerous to list here – who presented seminars over the years and opened my eyes to new ideas emanating from a number of disciplines hitherto unfamiliar to me and which changed the way I thought about design. Above all it is to the students – at both MA and PhD levels (especially, in ...