Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People |  | Author: Emily Pilloton
Creator: Allan Chochinov
Publisher: Metropolis Books
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Product Description
In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical non-profit that supports, inspires and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design. "We need to go beyond 'going green' and to enlist a new generation of design activists," she wrote in an influential manifesto. "We need big hearts, bigger business sense and the bravery to take action now."
Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products and systems--safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims, Braille-based Lego-style building blocks for blind children, wheelchairs for rugged conditions, sugarcane charcoal, universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls--that are as fascinating as they are revolutionary, this exceptionally smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways--for global citizens in the developing world and in more developed economies alike. Particularly at a time when the weight of climate change, global poverty and population growth are impossible to ignore, Pilloton challenges designers to be changemakers instead of "stuff creators." Urgent and optimistic, a compendium and a call to action, Design Revolution is easily the most exciting design publication to come out this year.
Emily Pilloton is the founder and Executive Director of Project H Design, a global industrial design nonprofit with eight chapters around the world. Trained in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and product design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pilloton started Project H in 2008 to provide a conduit and catalyst for need-based product design that empowers individuals, communities and economies. Current Project H initiatives include water transport and filtration systems in South Africa and India; an educational math playground built for elementary schools in Uganda and North Carolina; a homeless-run design coop in Los Angeles; and design concepts for foster care education and therapy in Austin, Texas.
Allan Chochinov is Editor in Chief of Core77.com, and writes and lectures widely on the impact of design on contemporary culture.
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 One of the best books I have read in a long time. August 28, 2009
Dave Asheim (San Francisco, CA USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
OK, I am biased. I am a strong advocate of using interesting designs in all aspects of our daily lives. And this book provides a framework, a wonderful narrative and fantastic images of products that you can instantly tell not only are great designs but can change the lives of the people who use them. Ms. Pilloton has captured the passion that great designers put into their work, in writing her first book. I highly recommend it.
easily a 10 STAR book January 22, 2010
John Bean (San Diego, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I watched Emily Pilloton on the Colbert Report and had to order this book immediately. I don't buy very many books but bought it for two reasons. One reason is that I am a retired design engineer and I am interested in these designs that empower people. The other reason is that I had to support this young woman who has done more good for the world than most people do in a lifetime. Any review of this effort less than five stars is pathetic. People should look in a mirror before they open their mouth.
core reading for prod dev/mktg/innovation leads November 4, 2009
DRILLIANT (New York, NY USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
solid perspective and thinking that can inform efforts upstream in prod dev, user experience, consumer branding, & social media integration
Great book for a great cause! November 23, 2009
E. Weber (New York, NY)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Design Revolution crosses sectors, continents and industries to bring engaging and inspiring case studies to the forefront of design. It's a great compilation and supports a fantastic cause!
 Good, but if you buy two other books you get so much more December 21, 2009
B. Knight (Brooklyn, NY US of A)
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yes, this is a good book, but if you buy Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises and Design for the Other 90% you pretty much have everything. This book doesn't give that much great insight nor does it show the true power and awareness that creativity deserves.
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