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Hello World

Where Design Meets Life

By: Alice Rawsthorn

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Hello World

Where Design Meets Life

By: Alice Rawsthorn

Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness. And yet with Instagram and Pinterest at our fingers and great design more available—and more affordable—than ever, we’ve had no guidebook to this ever-fascinating field. Though it’s an inescapable part of our lives, there has been no single book that could, in one fell swoop, tell us everything we need to know about design. Enter Hello World. The design critic for the International Heard Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn has spent many years reckoning with the history of design and with its place in contemporary life, and Hello World is the extraordinary summation of her research and reporting. Rawsthorn takes us on a trip through design that ranges across continents and centuries, and wherever she goes, she discovers inspiring, thrilling examples of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and sheer vision. From the macabre symbol with which eighteenth-century pirates terrorized their victims into surrender, to one woman’s quest for the best prosthetic legs, to the evolution of the World Cup soccer ball, Hello World describes how warlords, scientists, farmers, hackers, activists, and professional designers have used the complex, often elusive process of design to different ends throughout history. Hailed as a “rapid-fire and illuminating ode to contemporary design†? (Telegraph) and “an extremely readable tour of the subject†? (Financial Times), Hello World is a major work that radically broadens our understanding of what design can mean, and explains how we can use it to make sense of our ever-changing universe.

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1468309307

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Hello World

Where Design Meets Life

By: Alice Rawsthorn

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Design as an Attitude

By: Alice Rawsthorn

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Design as an Attitude

By: Alice Rawsthorn

Authoritative and engaging, Design as an Attitude explains how design is responding to an age of intense economic, political, and ecological instability. It shows how resourceful designers are using new digital tools to help to tackle the environmental and refugee crises, and to reinvent dysfunctional social services.The book charts different aspects of contemporary design: from its role in interpreting new technologies and the emergence of a new wave of digitally empowered designers in Africa, to the craft revival, design's gender politics, design's contribution to tackling the environmental crisis and climate change, and its use in expressing our increasingly fluid personal identities. Design as an Attitude also tells the stories of the new design adventurers, such as Irma Boom, Studio Formafantasma, Jing He, and Hella Jongerius, among others.Design as an Attitude consists of an introduction followed by 12 chapters: What is Attitudinal Design?; Spot the Difference--Design and Art; The Craft Revival; The Descent of Objects; Back to the Future; Is Design Still a (cis) Man's World?; Design's Colour Problem; The Fun of the Fair; Choices, Choices, Choices; Out of Control; Design and Desire; and, When the Worst Comes to the Worst.An award-winning design critic and author, Alice Rawsthorn OBE (b.1958, Manchester) wrote a weekly design column for The New York Times, which was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Her previous books include the critically acclaimed, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life (2013).Based in London, Rawsthorn speaks on design at global events, including TED and the World Economic Forum in Davos. This book is part of the JRP Ringier Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writing.

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Jrp Ringier

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3037645210

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Marc Newson

By: Marc Newson,Alice Rawsthorn

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Marc Newson

By: Marc Newson,Alice Rawsthorn

Marc Newson is one of the most influential designers of his generation. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1963, he studied sculpture and jewellery, and has since worked as an industrial designer from his own studios in Sydney, Tokyo, Paris and London. His projects range from restaurants and a recording studio, to a concept car and private jet; and his work has been exhibited everywhere from the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London's Design Museum, to the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. This book, compiled in collaboration with author, Alice Rawsthorn, and art director, Richard Allan, draws on extensive interviews with Newson, and his personal archive of sketches and photographs, as well as specially produced computer renderings of his work, to trace the development of his career and design style.

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Booth-Clibborn

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1861540620

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Michael Craig-Martin

Transience

By: Michael Craig-Martin

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Transience

By: Michael Craig-Martin

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3863358694

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Stories

By: Alice Adams

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Stories

By: Alice Adams

“Her stories recall such past masters as Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Mansfield.” --Newsweek Throughout her acclaimed career, Alice Adams demonstrated a remarkable finesse in both the novel and the short story. Her second collection reveals her ability to feelingly project whole lives in the space of a few pages. Here are people trying to pull free of the constraints of family bonds, people bewitched by capricious love, people conquering old panics, or changing in profound ways. Included are “Snow,” “Legends,” “Lost Luggage,” “An Unscheduled Stop, “At First Sight.”

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Vintage

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0307798291

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