About the Author:
Alice Rawsthorn is the author of Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. A British Design critic, she writes for the International New York Times, and she is a regular contributor to Frieze magazine. she is Chair of Trustees at Chisenhale Gallery and the dance group Michael Clark Company, and a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery. She worked as an award-winning journalist for the Financial Times from 1985 to 2001 and was Director of the Design Museum in London from 2001 to 2006. She has sat on the jury of many cultural prizes, including the Turner Prize, the Sterling Prize for Architecture and the PEN History Book Prize. She was awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts and she lives in London.
Review:
“Hello World maps and describes contemporary design with flair, passion, clarity and perspective, smartly connecting its most technologically advanced ‘mutant’ expressions with centuries-old examples and thus with tradition. We were all missing this book. Alice Rawsthorn has succeeded where everyone else has failed: she has written a page-turner about design.” —Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
“Panoramic in scope, passionately argued and highly addictive to read, Hello World is an indispensable guide to design. Seamlessly integrating vivid accounts of contemporary practice with historic precedents, Alice Rawsthorn’s book will be an essential reference for decades to come. Hello World is an invaluable toolbox for the twenty-first century.” —Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London
Praise for Yves Saint Laurent
“As gripping as a thriller, packed with plot, character and atmosphere.” —The Times
“Rawsthorn's excellent biography isn't merely a story about clothes, but of crises, comebacks and drug clinics, and as a document of the time it is compulsive.” —Evening Standard
“The best book I have ever read about the mesmerizing cruelty of fashion.” —The Spectator
“Intelligent and pragmatic . . . This is a page-turner of a book.” —New Statesman
"In a world saturated with ill-considered things, Hello World is a real wakeup call: a diverse and impassioned survey of why design matters. And Alice Rawsthorn practices what she preaches. Her on-point writing marries beautifully with Irma Boom's typography, resulting in a truly satisfying object."—Glenn Adamson, director of the Museum of Art and Design, New York
"Alice Rawsthorn constructs a meticulous living history of design, bridging the everyday and the extraordinary with equal parts precision and poetics."—Maria Popova, founder and editor of BrainPickings.org
"Making links across centuries of life-enhancing designs, and taking on the difficult task of defining the expansive world of contemporary design, Hello World is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the complex but essential role that design plays in daily life." —Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago
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