From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

The Art and Design History minor is offered through Parsons School of Design and Parsons Paris. Art history is one of the broadest fields in the humanities, concerned not only with the nature of works ...

The School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) offers a comprehensive array of courses in design studies, fashion studies, media and visual culture studies, spatial design studies, design and ...

Following a competitive search, Sarah A. Lichtman has been named chair of the Department of History of Art and Design in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS). A design historian and educator ...

An accent chair is just that — an object of furniture that adds an extra element of architectural interest to a room while still retaining its primary function of providing seating. With thousands of ...

Offered through the Department of the History of Art and Design, the Advanced Certificate in Design History is a 15-credit program that provides deepened study of the histories and theories of design ...

Accessible design is a relatively recent phenomenon, a true product of the twentieth century in that changing attitudes about disability and civil rights prompted design forms that had never been seen ...

The skateboard has had a wild ride. From its DIY beginnings in the 1950s to its counterculture heyday in the ’80s and ’90s to its inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics, skateboarding has been ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about haute couture and fashion history. The next time we have a presidential election year, in 2028, it will be the 100th ...