num_pages: 288
description: Hello World is Alice Rawsthorn's definitive guide to design and modern lifeDesign 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.Hello World 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.At 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 - Hello World explains how design can help us to make sense of them andto turn them to our advantage.
language: English
title: Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
publisher: Hamish Hamilton