Designing Modern Germany

摘要

The title of Jeremy Aynsley's book toys with the complexity and the many facets of design history. Designing Modern Germany asks if there is a German design-and if so, what it is. Even more, this book also reminds us that design provides a society with a face, asking if there is a design that makes modern Germany. The subject of the book is "the particular character of German design, its tendencies and discourses" (p. 9). Typically, Germany is associated with modernism. However, Aynsley's book does not get caught in the trap of equating German design with the avant-garde of modernism. Instead, he aims to show the complexity of German design, which cannot be reduced to a history of modern design.