Making Designs on a Better Life -- With Less

From UCI

If the economic collapse has exposed the shaky elements of your life and home, perhaps it's time to do less with more? How? Maybe with a more thoughtful design to it all? That's the approach of an accomplished English professor's light new book and the blog that launched it all. She co-authored the work with her twin sister, a graphic designer. They urge a rethinking of what we do and own to understand what works, doesn't and why. Life's not, they emphasize, just gathering up a lot of rubbish and flailing around with it and failing to understand why it neither pleases nor functions all that well. Why, really, do you need a toaster? Why stash stuff in drawers just to have a neat looking desk? Why not have a laptop computer out in the kitchen?

Photo: 'Design' authors Lipton -- Julia (l, a graphic designer) and Ellen (r, a UCI prof) / by Bob Moeller

How to Design a Better Life -- With Less

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