Michael Smythe FDINZ - Author of New Zealand By Design Book

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Buy your signed copy from the author of New Zealand By Design through www.designarc.org.nz

“Bloody well done!” wrote Noel Brown. “It is really excellent. I hope it does stonkingly well and that lots of the profession read it and reflect.”

Author Michael Smythe has been receiving a steady stream of similar emails and phone calls since his book was launched just over a week ago. Designers Institute members who have yet to immerse themselves in the rich backstory of New Zealand product design can purchase an inscribed and signed copy from the author through the www.designarc.org.nz website.

The back cover blurb reads:
Product design is what we make of ourselves. It shapes and shows who we are. It is the manufactured manifestation of our culture. NEW ZEALAND BY DESIGN richly illustrates the way product design has been formed by the isolation of the country most recently inhabited by ‘tool making animals’. It will inform, entertain, intrigue and surprise readers interested in Kiwi heritage, creativity, culture, economics, politics, technology, industry and the deeply driven need for human beings to design better lives.

If you still need convincing you can listen to Crystal Bevis’s review on thes National Radio podcast. (If clicking on the the link doesn’t work, copy and paste the url.)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2493995/book-review-with-crystal-beavis.asx

The podcast of Michael’s interview with Kim Hill can be found here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2494159/michael-smythe-product-design.asx

RSVP: lisa@joepublic.co.nz or phone 09 411 7799 before 18th August.

Posted on: August 2, 2011