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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical non-profit that supports, inspires and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design. "We need to go beyond 'going green' and to enlist a new gen...more
Paperback, 303 pages
Published
October 31st 2009
by Metropolis Books
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buku ini memerankan diri sebagai pelapor bagi 100 karya disain produk yang punya kontribusi penting pada masyarakat. dengan memasukkan disain produk ke dalam kelompok-kelompok seperti water, well being, energy, education, mobility, food, play dan enterprise, kita diperkenalkan pada konteks lahirnya disain-disain tadi. bahwa inovasi disain produk itu bukan ada untuk sekadar bikin beda, tapi ada untuk membuat hidup bisa dijalani dengan lebih mudah, hemat energi, tidak mengotori bumi dan meningkatk...more
100 designs for products that improve people's lives, not for capitalistic profit. From simple, practical things like ceramic/dung water filters to complex water filters that create drinking water from moisture in the aire to boots that protect people from landmines. The creativity of some of these designs is amazing and makes you think just how far design can go to improve people's lives and not just get them to spend more money.
Wow. I want to be a product designer or engineer after reading this book. I love the focus on good design done inexpensively and to help people. We have all heard about the $100 laptop and maybe the spider-like shoes that protect people from mine explosions. But this book has dozens more amazing designs that don't get press because they aren't created with the intention of making money. Flip through or read cover to cover and feel inspired and empowered.
It shows what good design is for improving people's life and forcing into posive change not just for good looking or layout design. Designers(not just for designers I guess) must always ask what consequences a design creates from materials and energy use to toxicity, pollution, and social inequality.
Fantastic. I loved this book. The whole concept of designing products that will empower people, many made from locally available materials and not harmful to the environment is a joy and so needed. I know I am not alone in roaming the aisles of the grocery store in frustration while trying to find a basic product amidst the exploding varieties and variation of that product.
The essays in the Introduction were fascinating and each page of the products displayed such innovative thinking.
Some produc...more
The essays in the Introduction were fascinating and each page of the products displayed such innovative thinking.
Some produc...more
Jan 19, 2010
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Sometimes I think my "true calling" in life is to be an industrial designer of mediocre talent. A girl can dream.
Not likely to be a cover-to-cover read, but certainly something to enjoy dicing into when you need some visual stimulation from an unexpected source.
When read in the context of Pilloton's TED Talk, all the more interesting.
When read in the context of Pilloton's TED Talk, all the more interesting.
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