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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People: By Emily Pilloton Paperback – October 31, 2009

by Emily Pilloton (Author), Allan Chochinov (Foreword)
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In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical non-profit that supports, inspires and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design. "We need to go beyond 'going green' and to enlist a new generation of design activists," she wrote in an influential manifesto. "We need big hearts, bigger business sense and the bravery to take action now."
Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products and systems--safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims, Braille-based Lego-style building blocks for blind children, wheelchairs for rugged conditions, sugarcane charcoal, universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls--that are as fascinating as they are revolutionary, this exceptionally smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways--for global citizens in the developing world and in more developed economies alike. Particularly at a time when the weight of climate change, global poverty and population growth are impossible to ignore, Pilloton challenges designers to be changemakers instead of "stuff creators." Urgent and optimistic, a compendium and a call to action, Design Revolution is easily the most exciting design publication to come out this year.
Emily Pilloton is the founder and Executive Director of Project H Design, a global industrial design nonprofit with eight chapters around the world. Trained in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and product design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pilloton started Project H in 2008 to provide a conduit and catalyst for need-based product design that empowers individuals, communities and economies. Current Project H initiatives include water transport and filtration systems in South Africa and India; an educational math playground built for elementary schools in Uganda and North Carolina; a homeless-run design coop in Los Angeles; and design concepts for foster care education and therapy in Austin, Texas.
Allan Chochinov is Editor in Chief of Core77.com, and writes and lectures widely on the impact of design on contemporary culture.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Metropolis Books; Original edition (October 31, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933045957
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933045955
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 1 x 7.9 inches
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Emily Pilloton is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Girls Garage (formerly Project H Design). A designer, builder, and educator, she has taught thousands of young girls how to use power tools, weld, and build projects for their communities. She has presented her work and ideas on the TED stage, The Colbert Report, and in the documentary film If You Build It. She is currently a lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  • Jay T Moody
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this inspirational book!
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    The selection of inspirational innovations in this book is great. The layout of one or two pages per project with large images is very digestible. Works great as a supplemental textbook for an innovation course, or as a coffee table book that is guaranteed to start interesting conversations.
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  • Joe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2013
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    Great book - exactly what I expected. Using it as a teaching tool in my high school and college classes.
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  • John Bean
    5.0 out of 5 stars easily a 10 STAR book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2010
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    I watched Emily Pilloton on the Colbert Report and had to order this book immediately. I don't buy very many books but bought it for two reasons. One reason is that I am a retired design engineer and I am interested in these designs that empower people. The other reason is that I had to support this young woman who has done more good for the world than most people do in a lifetime. Any review of this effort less than five stars is pathetic. People should look in a mirror before they open their mouth.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars ... the Daily Show - finally bought it and so glad I did
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    I had this book on my Wish List for such a long time after the author was showcased on the Daily Show - finally bought it and so glad I did, it's such an interesting read
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  • Keith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good for the product designers!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2015
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    Who doesn't love Emily Pilloton? I enjoyed this book! A great compilation of contemporary gadgets and product designs that have changed the world today! Great for designers who are going into product designs or for the general person who wants to engage themselves in learning different levels of empowering designs in multiple interdisciplinary areas.
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  • B. Knight
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but if you buy two other books you get so much more
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2009
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    Yes, this is a good book, but if you buy Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises and Design for the Other 90% you pretty much have everything. This book doesn't give that much great insight nor does it show the true power and awareness that creativity deserves.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015
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    Every classroom should have a copy of this book, it is so inspiring and my students love it because it makes them think about how to invent tools that help the world be a better place. I am glad I bought this book.
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  • George G.
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    I picked this book up after hearing some good things from a friend. It's quite interesting as a discussion piece, and I've referenced it on numerous occasions when arguing for the benefits of community-related design. It's absolutely worth a read.
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