- Publisher
- Frank Chimero
- Published
- 2012
- Shelf
- design: Thinking
- ISBN
- 9780985472207
Thinking
The Shape of Design
Frank Chimero
A short book on craft and storytelling in design, funded by its readers and given away online.
Why read it
Chimero's subject is why we make things at all, and his answer, that design is the arrangement of parts into a story somebody can follow, is argued through improvisation, cooking and jazz rather than case studies. It is what to read when the work is technically fine and dead.
Why own it
It was crowdfunded and released free, and the printed object is deliberately good: the point of owning it is that it is a designed argument about design. Short, re-readable, and it travels well.
Who it is for
Designers in a slump, and anyone who teaches.
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
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