Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects

by Ralph Caplan

Book Overview

Cracking the Whip is a collection of 69 essays that looks at just about everything in design: clothes, hardware, posters, cars, airports, chairs, lighting, vending machines, cities and bathrooms. They are about how we use design, language and instinct to navigate our everyday world from eating, relating to others, maintaining traditions and advancing our causes. Previously published in distinguished forums ranging from ID Magazine, Print, and Interior...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563673908
• ISBN13: 9781563673900
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"