California : designing freedom / Justin McGuirk and Brendan McGetrick.
Material type: TextAnalytics: 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
- unmediated
- volume
- 071487423X
- 9780714874234
- Designing freedom
- Design -- California -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Design -- California -- History -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
- Subculture -- California -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- California -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
- 745.409794 23
- NK1160-1590
- NK1410.C2 M34 2017
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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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