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Design for a living world

Title
Design for a living world / editors, Ellen Lupton and Abbot Miller ; essay by Andy Grundberg ; principal photography, Ami Vitale ; contributors, Gabrielle Antoniadis, Sara Elliott, and Emily Whitted.
Publication
New York, NY : Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Lupton, Ellen.
  • Miller, J. Abbott.
  • Grundberg, Andy.
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
  • Nature Conservancy (U.S.)
Description
199 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
To encourage people to choose materials that support, rather than squander fragile ecosystems, this work offers different uses for sustainably grown, locally harvested materials. Design for a Living World was developed by The Nature Conservancy, one of the world's leading conservation organizations, in order to raise global awareness about the impact and promise of sustainable sourcing. Ten prominent designers, including Kate Spade, Issac Mizrahi, Yves Béhar, Hella Jongerius and Ted Muehling were invited to create objects using only sustainably grown and harvested materials from some of the world's most beautiful and ecologically precarious places. Each of these landscapes supports its own distinct ecosystem and provides crucial livelihoods to local communities; each one is threatened by the effects of climate change and global economics--deforestation, overdevelopment and other destructive forces. Design for a Living World illuminates the complexity and vitality of raw materials at their source, including the people and cultures that actually produce them. The above designers were selected for their willingness to experiment and for their record of active engagement with issues of sustainability and social justice. In addition to presenting the designers' sketches, models and finished objects, Design for a Living World features original photographs by award-winning photojournalist Ami Vitale, who traveled around the world to document the many landscapes explored in this volume.
Subject
  • Sustainable design > Exhibitions
  • Industrial design > Environmental aspects > Exhibitions
  • Green products > Design > Exhibitions
  • Industrial design > Environmental aspects
  • Sustainable design
  • Design
  • Ökologie
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Ausstellung.
  • New York (NY, 2009)
Note
  • Catalog for an exhibition held at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, May 14, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010.
  • "Design inspired by The Nature Conservancy's Campaign for a Sustainable Planet."
Contents
Truth and material / Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller -- Pictures, places, people, things / Andy Grundberg -- Federated states of Micronesia : vegetable ivory and black pearl, Ted Muehling -- Australia : raspberry jam wood, Stephen Burks -- Costa RIca : cocoa, Yves Béhar -- Bolivia : FSC-certified plywood, Abbott Miller -- Bolivia : FSC-certified hardwood and jipijapa, Kate Spade New York -- Alaska : salmon leather, Isaac Mizrahi -- Mexico : chicle, Hella Jongerius -- Idaho : organic wool, Christien Meindertsma -- China : bamboo, Ezri Tarazi -- Maine : FSC-certified red maple, Maya Lin.
ISBN
  • 9780910503884
  • 0910503885
LCCN
  • 2009922059
  • 3054399
OCLC
  • ocn319061121
  • 319061121
  • SCSB-1563741
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library