Young Designs in Colour by Barbara Plumb is a richly illustrated survey of young and emerging design talent at the beginning of the 1970s. The book explores new ideas and experimental approaches across different areas of contemporary design, reflecting a period marked by bold colour, innovative materials and changing attitudes towards objects, interiors and visual culture. It presents the work of a younger generation of designers and demonstrates how new forms, materials, production methods and uses of colour were reshaping modern design. Furniture, objects and other fields of applied and decorative design are considered within the broader creative climate of the period, when boundaries between design, art, fashion and popular culture were increasingly fluid. The numerous colour illustrations make the volume a particularly attractive visual document of early 1970s design aesthetics. Published by Studio Vista in London in 1972, the book is both a period document and a useful reference for collectors and researchers interested in vintage design, young designers, experimental and avant-garde design, furniture, colour, Pop and Space Age aesthetics and twentieth-century design history.

Barbara Plumb

Young designs in colour