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California : designing freedom / Justin McGuirk and Brendan McGetrick.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London : Phaidon Press Limited in partnership with the Design Museum, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 071487423X
  • 9780714874234
Other title:
  • Designing freedom
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 745.409794 23
LOC classification:
  • NK1160-1590
  • NK1410.C2 M34 2017
Contents:
Foreword -- Selling freedom : tools of personal liberation -- Go where you want : tools of movement and escape -- See what you want : tools of perception and fantasy -- Say what you want : tools of self-expression and rebellion -- Make what you want : tools of production and self-reliance -- Join who you want : tools of collaboration and community -- Interviews -- Afterword -- Biographies.
Summary: "How did California come to have such a powerful influence on contemporary design? This book explores how the ideals of the 1960s counterculture morphed into the tech culture of Silicon Valley, and how 'Designed in California' became a global phenomenon."--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 745.409794 MCG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A516513B

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Design Museum, London, 24 May-15 October 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Selling freedom : tools of personal liberation -- Go where you want : tools of movement and escape -- See what you want : tools of perception and fantasy -- Say what you want : tools of self-expression and rebellion -- Make what you want : tools of production and self-reliance -- Join who you want : tools of collaboration and community -- Interviews -- Afterword -- Biographies.

"How did California come to have such a powerful influence on contemporary design? This book explores how the ideals of the 1960s counterculture morphed into the tech culture of Silicon Valley, and how 'Designed in California' became a global phenomenon."--Publisher's website.

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