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Fewer, Better Things

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Fewer, Better Things

By Glenn Adamson

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About the book

From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still her...Show more

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ISBN

9781632869647

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Fewer, Better Things

Format

Hardcover

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