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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Justin McGuirk , Brendan McGetrickPublisher: Phaidon Press Ltd Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 20.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 27.00cm Weight: 0.897kg ISBN: 9780714874234ISBN 10: 071487423 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 24 May 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones... Ambitious... Californian products have influenced contemporary life across the globe to such an extent that in some ways we are all now Californians. Put simply, 'Designed in California' is the new 'Made in Italy'.""—MrsD-Daily.com ""An illustrated book that would look chic on any California coffee table, yet one that packs an impressive heft with five original essays by design scholars and practioners.""—New Scientist" Explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones... Ambitious... Californian products have influenced contemporary life across the globe to such an extent that in some ways we are all now Californians. Put simply, 'Designed in California' is the new 'Made in Italy'. --MrsD-Daily.com Explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones... Ambitious... Californian products have influenced contemporary life across the globe to such an extent that in some ways we are all now Californians. Put simply, 'Designed in California' is the new 'Made in Italy'. -MrsD-Daily.com Explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones... Ambitious... Californian products have influenced contemporary life across the globe to such an extent that in some ways we are all now Californians. Put simply, 'Designed in California' is the new 'Made in Italy'. -MrsD-Daily.com An illustrated book that would look chic on any California coffee table, yet one that packs an impressive heft with five original essays by design scholars and practioners. -New Scientist Author InformationJustin McGuirk is a writer and curator based in London. He is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the head of Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has been the director of Strelka Press, the design critic of The Guardian, and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. His book Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture is published by Verso. Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer, editor, and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries, including Wired, Art Review, Domus, and Vogue Nippon. His projects include the books MAD Dinner (Actar), Urban China: Work In Progress (Timezone 8), and Who is Architecture? (Domus/Timezone 8). In 2011, he curated Unnamed Design, a component of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, in collaboration with Ai Weiwei. In 2014, he co-curated Fair Enough in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. From 2002 to 2006 he was head writer at the research studio AMO. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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