Phaidon announced the launch of a groundbreaking new application for the Apple iPad.
The Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition is an astonishingly ambitious resource, offering everything you need to know about 1,000 of the world's best mass-produced objects designed from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to today.
The application is now available on the App Store for download at a special introductory price of $19.99.
This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years.
It was years in the making and was compiled via rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders, including architects, critics, curators, product designers, auctioneers, and historians.
The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, and Philippe Starck but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, the corkscrew, and the chopstick, that have stood the test of time.
The objects are organised chronologically, easily accessible via a timeline on the right side of the screen.
Material contained in the application includes archival photographs, original sketches, patents, prototypes and informative text with precise information about the product, designer, manufacturer and the object's historical context.