Design Disasters

Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

By Steven Heller

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Embarrassing career moves, discarded inventions, colossal accidents, public mistakes--find the silver lining to all your private disappointments and public failures in this collection of essays from top designers and design thinkers. Grimace, smile, and explore the essence of failure and success and the role of failure in a design career in essays by:

Henry Petroski
Alissa Walker
William Drenttel
David Barringer
Allan Chocinov
Peter Blegvad
Ross MacDonald
Robert Grossman
Ina Saltz
Warren Lehrer
Rob Trostle
Ralph Caplan
Richard Saul Wurman
Marian Bantjes
Rick Meyerowitz
Amanda Bowers
David Jury
Veronique Vienne
Francis Levy
Nick Currie
Debbie Millman
Colin Berry
David Womack
Stefan Sagmiester
Ken Garland
Ben Kessler

With anecdotes, illustrations, and historical examples, Design Disasters will inspire students, teachers, and professional designers alike to go against their instincts and embrace and even enjoy every design misstep. Design Disasters proves fear of failure--and failure itself--can be the most compelling part of the creative process.

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SKU	Y0083
Author/Speaker/Editor	Steven Heller
Shipping	This product ships from Allworth Press.
File/Trim Size	9 x 6
Format	No
ISBN 13	9781581156522
Number Of Pages	240