Hello World: Where Design Meets Life

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-03-07 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Hello World is Alice Rawsthorns definitive guide to design and modern lifeDesign is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely. it can bring us pleasure. choice. strength. decency and much more. But if its power is abused. the outcome can be wasteful. confusing. humiliating. even dangerous. None of us can avoid being affected by design. whether or not we wish to. It is so ubiquitous that it determines how we feel and what we do. often without our noticing.Hello World explores designs influence on our lives. Written by the renowned design critic Alice Rawsthorn and designed by the award-winning book designer Irma Boom. it describes how warlords. scientists. farmers. hackers. activists and designers have used design to different ends throughout history: from the maca...