[PDF.03im] Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design

Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design

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 | #1484651 in Books |  2003-09-16 |  2003-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.55 x1.21 x6.60l,1.37 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| How to beef up a book|By Designer|It seems obvious to me that Petroski had to beef up this book. There are some interesting design critique and stories in the book. About 2 interesting items per chapter. The rest of the book is dry musings by the author. He endlessly repeats the same idea over and over. The author even includes the notes he wrote for the chapter ideas for|From Publishers Weekly|"Design can be easy and difficult at the same time, but in the end, it is mostly difficult." So writes engineering professor Petroski (The Evolution of Useful Things, etc.) in his latest effort, a wide-ranging exploration of the history an

Henry Petroski, “America’s poet laureate of technology” (Kirkus Reviews)–author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things–now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.

Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers, paper bags, duct tape–as ubiq...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design   |  Henry Petroski. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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