Design Your Life

What is design? And why is it so important? Not a new question, but the answers are so many. We already know that design is about much more than what’s bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA, but what exactly? Design is critical thinking: a way to look at the world and wonder why things work, and why they don’t.
Using humor and insight leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton in their new book Design Your Life explore the practical side of everyday design, looking at how it impacts your life in unexpected ways and what you can do about it. Speaking to the popular interest in design as well as people’s desire to make their own way through a mass-produced world, the book takes a fresh and humorous approach to make some serious points about the impact of design on our lives.



Taking a fresh, funny look at parenthood, housekeeping, entertaining, time management, crafting, and more Design Your Life shows you how to evaluate the things you use, and how to recognize forms of order that secretly inhabit the messes of daily life, be it a cluttered room or a busy schedule. Using the book you can gain control over your environment and tap into the power of design to communicate with friends, family, and the world.

There is one short description of design that I like very much: design is communication. Why? Ellen Lupton explains it very clearly in her blog Design Your Life.