Description: Literary Nonfiction. Celebrating forty years of the Sir Misha Black Awards--the world's only major awards recognising and promoting excellence in design education--FITNESS offers a treasure trove of thoughtful essays by some of the world's leading design educators, some reproducing their previously unpublished award acceptance lectures, some with entirely new contributions.
Brief description: Christopher Frayling is an art historian, critic and award-winning broadcaster. He is a Professor Emeritus and a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and was awarded a knighthood in 2001 for Services to Art and Design Education. He has published several books including, Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design and Once Upon a Time in Italy. His television and radio series include Nightmare: The Birth of Horror, America: the movie and Britannia: the film.