Introduction

Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a founding editor and now co-editor of Design Issues. Professor Margolin has published widely on diverse design topics and lectured at conferences, universities, and art schools in many parts of the world. Books he has written, edited, or co-edited include Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion; WW II; The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917–1936; Design Discourse; Discovering Design; The Idea of Design; The Designed World; The Politics of the Artificial; and Culture is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art. The first two volumes of his three-volume World History of Design will be published in early 2015.