(Guest review by Shannon Smith)
If you are a fan of FreelanceSwitch the freelancing blog started by Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, their spin-off How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is written in the same, blog-like style.
The car sums up the contradictions of industrialised age more than any other design object. Simultaneously a symbol of desire, design and engineering brilliance and of over-consumption of resources and destruction of the environment.
What would Paul Rand have been like as a teacher? He was renowned for his stinging critiques ornery manner, yet in Paul Rand: Conversations with Students (Amazon: US|CA|UK|DE) Philip Burton chooses the word ‘compassionate’ to describe him.
(Guest Review by David Sherwin)
Underwhelmed.
We’ve all had this reaction when encountering a product or service that just didn’t cut it.
Take, for example, the alarm clock next to my bed.
“Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.
[Given that it is a book about classification, Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland - Report 1 (Amazon: US|CA|UK|DE) by Gerlinde Schuller is oddly difficult to classify.
