California: Designing Freedom: Tools of Personal Liberation - Softcover

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Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator based in London. He is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the head of Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has been the director of Strelka Press, the design critic of The Guardian, and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. His book Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture is published by Verso.

Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer, editor, and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries, including Wired, Art Review, Domus, and Vogue Nippon. His projects include the books MAD Dinner (Actar), Urban China: Work In Progress (Timezone 8), and Who is Architecture? (Domus/Timezone 8). In 2011, he curated Unnamed Design, a component of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, in collaboration with Ai Weiwei. In 2014, he co-curated Fair Enough in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. From 2002 to 2006 he was head writer at the research studio AMO.

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Our lives, homes, and work are, whether we
realize it or not, being designed in California.
Our day-to-day experiences are increasingly
filtered through social media interfaces, and
the Internet of Things is nearly a reality. This
important book assesses California's potent
influence on today's design culture and traces
its evolution, from the influence of The Whole
Earth Catalog in the 1960s to the emergence
of the Silicon Valley tech giants that are now
having a massive influence on contemporary
life around the world.