Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things

by Julia Lupton and Ellen Lupton

Book Overview

"Design Your Life "is a series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them. By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton, it shows how design is about much more than what's bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA. Design is "critical thinking: " a way to look at the world and wonder why things work, and why they don't. Illustrated with original paintings of objects both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312532733
• ISBN13: 9780312532734
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

"Design Your Life" is a wonderful book.

"Design Your Life" is an excellent, entertaining read. It is funny, very clever, interesting, and useful. The wit is woven into humorous and critical examinations of the items and structure that is the context of our daily lives. If you read this book, you will have a series of great "Aha!" moments as you gain a deeper understanding of how the design of your environment and the items you use influence and effect your behavior. There is also a confortable amount of how-to and d.i.y. info to balance the humorous and historical. As you read it you will feel your own ideas begin to spring forward. You will also think of people for whom it would be a perfect gift. Give it a try.

A real delight to have and to share

What a delight to share in the experience of having this brilliant, savvy, funny, practical, beautiful book in hand: an invitation to play, construct, imagine, chat, reconfigure, connect. Both voices in this book encourage us to open a conversation with them -- visually, verbally -- and with our multiple selves, with the people in our lives, with designers who offer us opportunities to re-think the way we live now. A treat for ourselves and for anybody we might want in our lives.

Wonderful, wonderful book

Ellen and Julia have done it again! This is a marvelous, life-affirming book. A must read for designers, and anyone that enjoys creativity and beauty in their lives.