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Vintage Tomorrows
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Vintage Tomorrows

by James H. Carrott, Brian David Johnson
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
11h 24m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 16. We Must Design a Better Future

Now that we know people want more from their technology, and now that we know people want their devices to have humor, history, and humanity, what do we do? What do we make? What effect should and will this have on the objects, devices and even buildings we make? Brian has a conversation with legendary designer Bruce Mau and we discover that what steampunk is telling us about technology applies across an even broader design spectrum. Mau and his design team have been working with humor, history, and humanity for some time now and what they created is amazing.

A Conversation with Bruce Mau

Brian David Johnson (Chicago, IL)

Everything about Bruce Mau is big. He has a big reputation as one of this generation’s ...

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