A manifesto for the future of design, impeccably crafted by Bruce Sterling and enhanced by the delicately emphatic graphic intelligence of Lorraine Wild... Shaping Things hovers between science fiction and design fact, pushing forward into the future and showing how design happens. -- Bill Moggridge, Cofounder, IDEO
Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce
Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of
our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his
novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he
has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In
2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of
Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been
active since 2003.
Lorraine Wild is an award-winning designer, a founder of Greybull
Press, and a member of the faculty at the California Institute of
the Arts.
Now, with Shaping Things, design gets full-court consideration in a
powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory
toward a new product order...On top of being one of the most
strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping
Things, designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally
and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do
evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more
sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for
granted.
*Architect's Newspaper*
Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made
palatable by Lorraine Wild's clean but evocative book design. The
whole project exudes a confidence-building,
you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work
of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary
and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas...In
the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a
sustainable future, using all the information available to us as
consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the
environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements.
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling
brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers
have—or don't have—with objects... Shaping Things presents a robust
typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke
innovators into rethinking their market offerings' essential
qualities.
*Across the Board Magazine*
It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year...I can
tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get
more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work
that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal
information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no
better primer for putting it all together.
*BoingBoing*
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