Glimmer

Glimmer Synopsis

The first mainstream book to explore how the problem-solving, creative and insightful powers of Bruce Mau and the world's other great designers can be applied to our everyday lives and businesses and spawn creative epiphanies around the world.What can be learned from great designers? How can design improve our lives? Answers abound in Glimmer. In the cutting-edge studios of Canadian design phenomenon Bruce Mau and other visionary designers, everything is ripe for reinvention including how businesses function, children learn and communities thrive. Warren Berger, with the full cooperation of Mau, tallies and explores the deceptively simple principles that steer design's vanguard ';ask stupid questions,' ';begin anywhere' and ';make hope visible' and illustrates how these and other such principles can provide the means for finding hope in these anxious times.From the Hardcover edition.