{"product_id":"hello-world-where-design-meets-life","title":"Hello World: Where Design Meets Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHello World\u003c\/i\u003e is Alice Rawsthorn's definitive guide to design and modern life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesign 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHello World\u003c\/i\u003e explores design's 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 macabre symbol invented by 18th century pirates to terrorise their victims into surrender, to one woman's quest for the best possible prosthetic legs and the evolution of the World Cup ball.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt a time when we face colossal changes, unprecedented in their speed, scale and intensity - from the deepening environmental crisis, to giant leaps in science and technology - \u003ci\u003eHello World\u003c\/i\u003e explains how design can help us to make sense of them andto turn them to our advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eHello World\u003c\/i\u003e is a new book by Alice Rawsthorn, the one and only, the best design critic in the entire world. She keeps the banner of design flying high. Irma Boom designed it, and Irma is simply the best book designer alive' \u003ci\u003ePaola Antonelli,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSenior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Alice Rawsthorn's \u003ci\u003eYves Saint Laurent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'As gripping as a thriller, packed with plot, character and atmosphere' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Rawsthorn's excellent biography isn't merely a story about clothes, but of crises, comebacks and drug clinics, and as a document of the time it is compulsive' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The best book I have ever read about the mesmerising cruelty of fashion' \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Intelligent and pragmatic... this is a page-turner of a book' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'What a story! A skilful interweaving of the artistic, business and emotional life of a great couture house' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the \u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, the global edition of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Her weekly Design column is syndicated worldwide. A trustee of Arts Council England and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, she is chair of trustees at the Chisenhale Gallery and the author of an acclaimed biography of \u003ci\u003eYves Saint Laurent\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hamish Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780241145302\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £2.33","offer_id":47909726978225,"sku":"SB-0241145309-C4","price":2.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0241145309.jpg?v=1789215981","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/hello-world-where-design-meets-life","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}