Design Emergency

Building a Better Future

Paola Antonelli author Alice Rawsthorn author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd

Published:25th May '22

£24.95

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Design Emergency cover

Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world’s most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive

Design Emergency tells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.

'In most books, the questions are usually more important than the answers, but in this book the answers are just as important as the questions' - Irma Boom, graphic designer

'Uplifting' - Elle Decoration

'Best Design and Architecture Books of 2022' - Domus

'A must-have book' - Fast Company

'Full of insight … reading this book may give you hope that we can get through them.' - AD Pro

'A labor of love that began as an Instagram feed of life-allaying solutions during the pandemic and bloomed into an atemporal celebration of human optimism, ingenuity, and passion at their most practical and most buoyant.' - Maria Popova, The Marginalian

ISBN: 9781838664275

Dimensions: 210mm x 146mm x 25mm

Weight: 693g

320 pages