BOOKS

DESIGN AS AN ATTITUDE

Author: Alice Rawsthorn

The book explores how a new generation of designers are using digital tools to pursue their social, political, and ecological goals by operating independently. In doing so, they are liberating design from its commercial role in the industrial age, and redefining it as a discipline of resourcefulness, instinct, and ingenuity.

THE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY THINGS

Author: Soetsu Yanagi

The objects that fill our everyday lives are our constant companions. As such, writes philosopher and Japanese folk-craft pioneer Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection......