David Seth Raizman

"The 2nd edition of History of Modern Design gives me the opportunity to share my excitement about this subject with students and with the general public. I'm delighted that Pearson and Laurence King Publishing (in the UK) allowed me to revisit the subject matter, change, and add to its content. If you'd like to comment on the book or just write about design and design history, I'd welcome your thoughts and observations."

David Raizman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Art and Art History Department in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In addition to being the author of History of Modern Design, he also has written numerous articles and reviews, co-edited with Professor Carma Gorman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) the book Objects, Audiences, and Literatures: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design, (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), and more recently, with Ethan Robey (Parsons School of Design) co-edited Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915 (London, Routledge, 2017). He is currently working on a series of case studies in the history of graphic design.

He was a research fellow at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University museum in Miami Beach, Florida in October, 2009, and was an invited guest lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2012. After 28 years on the faculty in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Dr. Raizman retired from teaching in 2017.