Hello World: Where Design Meets Life

Informationen zum Autor Alice Rawsthorn is the author of Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life . A British Design critic! she writes for the International New York Times ! and she is a regular contributor to Frieze magazine. she is Chair of Trustees at Chisenhale Gallery and the dance group Michael Clark Company! and a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery. She worked as an award-winning journalist for the Financial Times from 1985 to 2001 and was Director of the Design Museum in London from 2001 to 2006. She has sat on the jury of many cultural prizes! including the Turner Prize! the Sterling Prize for Architecture and the PEN History Book Prize. She was awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts and she lives in London. Klappentext Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely! it can bring us pleasure! choice! strength! decency and more. But if its power is abused! the outcome can be wasteful! confusing! humiliating! even dangerous. This title explores design's influence on our lives. Zusammenfassung Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, even dangerous. This title explores design's influence on our lives.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Rawsthorn, Rawsthorn Alice
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2013
• EAN: 9780241145302
• ISBN: 978-0-241-14530-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Design, DESIGN / History & Criticism, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, history of design, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration