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Design for the Other 90%

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Author: Cynthia E. Smith
Publisher: Editions Assouline
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4

ISBN: 0910503974
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9780910503976
ASIN: 0910503974

Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Purchasing experience March 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I was already familiar with the catalog, but needed additional copies. I was pleasantly surprised to find the Amazon selling price was even lower than at the venue. The catalog contains links and resources to follow-up on all the displayed items and their authors.br /br /The shipping time was relatively long, but express shipment outside the US would have been too expensive.

4 out of 5 stars

nice brief review of interesting design February 16, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

"Design for the Other 90%" was published for the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum at the Smithsonian. More like a review of an exhibition than a definitive text, the book is a nice brief review of some very interesting designs that are useful all over our planet. The book does not seem to be intended to teach you how to build, but rather to inspire you to think about building differently. br /br / The book contains a collection of inventions - most of them quite simple. Examples are a "pot-in-pot" cooler which uses evaporative cooling to keep food from spoiling, a portable water filter for drinking water, a communal solar-powered kitchen, a gravity-powered drip irrigation system, and small-scale photovoltaic lighting. There are many more interesting ideas within these pages.br /br / You won't learn the details of construction from this book, but you will be stimulated to think more broadly about designs that are useful for the majority of humans on our planet.

4 out of 5 stars

Great book - great idea January 21, 2008
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Excellent book. Besides many, many good ideas, the concept of Designing for the other 90% of the population is inspiring. If you've ever seen how people in developing nations live, you know how important and needed innovative ideas like these are. br /br /In the lines of "Poverty is our greatest common enemy", if people started designing products like these to help improve the lot of the rest of the world, the larger part of the world's problems would be solved. br /br /The only thing I'd like to see in this book is more good ideas..

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