BBC纪录片《设计天赋》第二集“民主设计”中英文视频：

本集主要介绍20世纪初的设计形态，以及民主设计的思想。

In the crisis-stricken decades of the 1920s and 1930s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come, from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and the three-piece suite.

In Europe, the ‘modern movement’ promoted the virtues of the machine and the machine-made with theories and products like open-plan living, the fitted kitchen and tubular steel furniture which have become absorbed into the mainstream of the designed world. In the USA, designers like Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss explored and exploited the dreams and desires of American consumers to develop a market-based approach to design which has become one of the bedrocks of the modern consumer society. Featuring Niels Diffrient and Tom Dyckhoff.

民主设计思想起源：威廉．莫里斯（英国工艺美术运动的奠基人）

反复强调设计的两个基本原则：

1、产品设计和建筑设计是为千千万万的人服务的，而不是为少数人的活动；

2、设计工作必须是集体的活动，而不是个体劳动。