Isbn: 9781933045061 - the uncommon life of common objects: essays on design and the everyday (16 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Good. What makes us love our things? Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items? How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people? These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects. Author Akiko Busch devotes a chapter to each of 12 common objects, and discusses her and others' experiences that give everyday things their significance. Through her examination of: a video camera, a cellular phone, a vegetable peeler, a snowboard, a baby carriage, a chair, a refrigerator, a mailbox, a medicine cabinet, a cereal box, a backpack and a desk, Busch illuminates the social and personal issues that shape our lives and the ownership of our things. Lovingly illustrated, always touching, sometimes nostalgic and often hilarious, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, is a topical reader that is at once a personal manifesto, a look at how design influences and responds to our changing lives, and a study of society and its values and the infusion of meaning into inanimate objects. Each of the 12 chapters is accompanied by a four-color drawing.…

Condición: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardback. Condición: Good. What makes us love our things? Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items? How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people? These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects. Author Akiko Busch devotes a chapter to each of 12 common objects, and discusses her and others' experiences that give everyday things their significance. Through her examination of: a video camera, a cellular phone, a vegetable peeler, a snowboard, a baby carriage, a chair, a refrigerator, a mailbox, a medicine cabinet, a cereal box, a backpack and a desk, Busch illuminates the social and personal issues that shape our lives and the ownership of our things. Lovingly illustrated, always touching, sometimes nostalgic and often hilarious, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, is a topical reader that is at once a personal manifesto, a look at how design influences and responds to our changing lives, and a study of society and its values and the infusion of meaning into inanimate objects. Each of the 12 chapters is accompanied by a four-color drawing.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As New condition Hardcover black boards with silver lettering on spine and cover. Includes numerous color and b/w illustrations, 155 pages. George Skelcher (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION. A Perfect New volume, clean and tight, bound in brown cloth and printed on glossy sheets. Dust Jacket has 'crimping' wrinkles (see photo) along extremities; price in place on front flap. Author highlight objects we use everyday to explain our relationships to them. Delightful and enlightening. 155+ pages. Mylar protected jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 160 pages.

Condición: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.95.

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