Book Review:

Jacques Lange

Jacques Lange Part-time lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, and Partner and Creative Director, Bluprint Design.

Keywords: World history of design

Abstract

Epic, herculean, encyclopaedic, definitive, ambitious, big, exhaustive, comprehensive, holistic, inclusive, eclectic, busting the Western-centric canon, world scale, definitive, analytical, deeply exploratory, overwhelming and immersive. These are some of the adjectives and descriptors that reviewers have used to describe Victor Margolin’s first two of a three-volume tome, World history of design, published in 2015.