UXBCTO Confirmation & Sign-up to discuss "Design for the Real World" Tues. July 28
Kaleem
We're meeting to review Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek. We sold out Amazon Canada and just about every available copy in the city (and, we're told, the country) when we first announced it months ago. If you haven't got a copy, there's still time to get it and read this provocative and controversial book.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 28 at 6:00pm
WHERE: SOCO Kitchen + Bar, 75 Lower Simcoe St. at Bremner Blvd.
RSVP at Guestlist: http://j.mp/uxbcto25
Please be sure to RSVP so we have accurate numbers and so we can get some space on a nice patio (weather-permitting).
See you soon!
Kaleem
About the Book
Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design.
In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy.
"The book is wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse or horrify. The enthusiasm and verbal exuberance of Papanek as he rips away the pretensions, hypocrisises and vices of the real world are always stimulating." — Arthur Conway, New Scientist
- Amazon CANADA http://j.mp/uxbctopapanek
- Amazon USA http://j.mp/uxbctopapanekus
- or your favourite purveyor of books.
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PS - As always, you can find our book lists at:
Amazon Canada (http://astore.amazon.ca/uxbcto-20) or at
Amazon (http://astore.amazon.com/uxbcto09-20).