How to See - Design Within Reach

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How to See is a collection of over 50 chapter-long essays, illustrated with hundreds of startling photographs, mostly from Nelson's personal archives, and a preface by DWR founder Rob Forbes, who was project director for this re-edition. The chapters cover topics as diverse as Letterforms, Spirals, Erosion of Pedestrian Space, Bread, Patterns and Pismo Beach. In each chapter Nelson discusses a way to understand and interpret the visual information presented through the photographic illustrations-the book is appropriately subtitled "A Guide to Reading our Man Made Environment." The text, as well as the photographs, are insightful, inspiring, provocative and entertaining and will be appreciated by students and design buffs alike. We consider it to be perhaps the best $30 investment one could make towards a design education.

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