Comments on: Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things http://www.rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html Contemporary Design Reviews, Articles on Graphic, Product, Architectural. Art and Webdesign Sun, 01 May 2011 06:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D. Millman http://www.rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html/comment-page-1#comment-519 D. Millman Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:46 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html#comment-519 Ellen and Julia have done it again! This is a marvelous, life-affirming book. A must read for designers, and anyone that enjoys creativity and beauty in their lives. Rating: 5 / 5 Ellen and Julia have done it again! This is a marvelous, life-affirming book. A must read for designers, and anyone that enjoys creativity and beauty in their lives.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Carrol Cowan http://www.rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html/comment-page-1#comment-518 Carrol Cowan Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:36:29 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html#comment-518 I found nothing useful in this book. It seemed like a puff piece for the authors, and I'm surprised it received positive reviews. Maybe it was creative - that is, a creative way to get me to part with my money. But there was little substance, and I wasn't impressed with the few ideas presented. Rating: 1 / 5 I found nothing useful in this book. It seemed like a puff piece for the authors, and I’m surprised it received positive reviews. Maybe it was creative – that is, a creative way to get me to part with my money. But there was little substance, and I wasn’t impressed with the few ideas presented.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Vivian Folkenflik http://www.rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html/comment-page-1#comment-517 Vivian Folkenflik Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:36:57 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html#comment-517 <br />What a delight to share in the experience of having this brilliant, savvy, funny, practical, beautiful book in hand: an invitation to play, <br />construct, imagine, chat, reconfigure, connect. Both voices in this book <br />encourage us to open a conversation with them -- visually, verbally -- and with our multiple selves, with the people in our lives, with designers who <br />offer us opportunities to re-think the way we live now. A treat for <br />ourselves and for anybody we might want in our lives. <br /> Rating: 5 / 5 What a delight to share in the experience of having this brilliant, savvy, funny, practical, beautiful book in hand: an invitation to play,

construct, imagine, chat, reconfigure, connect. Both voices in this book

encourage us to open a conversation with them — visually, verbally — and with our multiple selves, with the people in our lives, with designers who

offer us opportunities to re-think the way we live now. A treat for

ourselves and for anybody we might want in our lives.

Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Ian Blakeslee http://www.rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html/comment-page-1#comment-516 Ian Blakeslee Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:44:52 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/design-your-life-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-everyday-things.html#comment-516 "Design Your Life" is an excellent, entertaining read. It is funny, very clever, interesting, and useful. The wit is woven into humorous and critical examinations of the items and structure that is the context of our daily lives. <br /> <br />If you read this book, you will have a series of great "Aha!" moments as you gain a deeper understanding of how the design of your environment and the items you use influence and effect your behavior. <br /> <br />There is also a confortable amount of how-to and d.i.y. info to balance the humorous and historical. <br /> <br />As you read it you will feel your own ideas begin to spring forward. You will also think of people for whom it would be a perfect gift. Give it a try. Rating: 5 / 5 “Design Your Life” is an excellent, entertaining read. It is funny, very clever, interesting, and useful. The wit is woven into humorous and critical examinations of the items and structure that is the context of our daily lives.

If you read this book, you will have a series of great “Aha!” moments as you gain a deeper understanding of how the design of your environment and the items you use influence and effect your behavior.

There is also a confortable amount of how-to and d.i.y. info to balance the humorous and historical.

As you read it you will feel your own ideas begin to spring forward. You will also think of people for whom it would be a perfect gift. Give it a try.
Rating: 5 / 5

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