Recensione:
“Hello World maps and describes contemporary design with flair, passion, clarity and perspective, smartly connecting its most technologically advanced ‘mutant’ expressions with centuries-old examples and thus with tradition. We were all missing this book. Alice Rawsthorn has succeeded where everyone else has failed: she has written a page-turner about design.” —Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
“Panoramic in scope, passionately argued and highly addictive to read, Hello World is an indispensable guide to design. Seamlessly integrating vivid accounts of contemporary practice with historic precedents, Alice Rawsthorn’s book will be an essential reference for decades to come. Hello World is an invaluable toolbox for the twenty-first century.” —Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London
Praise for Yves Saint Laurent
“As gripping as a thriller, packed with plot, character and atmosphere.” —The Times
“Rawsthorn's excellent biography isn't merely a story about clothes, but of crises, comebacks and drug clinics, and as a document of the time it is compulsive.” —Evening Standard
“The best book I have ever read about the mesmerizing cruelty of fashion.” —The Spectator
“Intelligent and pragmatic . . . This is a page-turner of a book.” —New Statesman
"In a world saturated with ill-considered things, Hello World is a real wakeup call: a diverse and impassioned survey of why design matters. And Alice Rawsthorn practices what she preaches. Her on-point writing marries beautifully with Irma Boom's typography, resulting in a truly satisfying object."—Glenn Adamson, director of the Museum of Art and Design, New York
"Alice Rawsthorn constructs a meticulous living history of design, bridging the everyday and the extraordinary with equal parts precision and poetics."—Maria Popova, founder and editor of BrainPickings.org
"Making links across centuries of life-enhancing designs, and taking on the difficult task of defining the expansive world of contemporary design, Hello World is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the complex but essential role that design plays in daily life." —Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago
L'autore:
Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition ofThe New York Times. Her weekly Design column is syndicated worldwide. The former director of London’s Design Museum, she is also the author of an acclaimed biography of Yves Saint Laurent.
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