How Design Makes the World | Communication Arts
How Design Makes the World may be the year’s best-titled book. That’s because it’s not just about good design or how design works, but how the world around us is shaped by design—good, bad and mediocre—and the many decisions that go into making it. While the book has many helpful suggestions for fostering better design, it also lays out in simple prose the complex reasons why the objects that surround us are the way they are. In the introduction, author Scott Berkun mentions that he took many years to get the book right, and readers should be glad he did. He treats complex subjects ...