Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things

摘要

This book is an attempt by two sisters-one a professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and the other a curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum-to bring together their respective areas of expertise and produce a scholarly take on design studies which will also reach a readership beyond academia. It focuses particularly on objects and phenomena we use in our daily routines, such as potted plants, bras, curtains and corporate fonts. It is divided into short, pithily titled chapters such as 'Are toasters necessary?