Thomas Heatherwick - Making

Thomas Heatherwick - Making

Revised and expanded edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Revised and expanded edition How do you turn a paper mill into a gin distillery? Let every country in the Olympic Games take part in making and lighting the Olympic Cauldron? Design a building using an electron microscope? Produce a new bus for London that uses less fuel? Make someone eat your business card? Develop a new kind of mosque? Turn the back door of a hospital into its front door? Grow a meadow in the center of a city? Generate the form of a building in less than a minute? Use saliva as an ingredient of a Christmas card? Create a piece of architecture that represents a nation?  This is the definitive publication on one of the world's most exceptional designers. More than 600 pages, 140 projects and hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and sketches, this revised and expanded monograph will excite, inspire, and serve as an invaluable resource for creative solutions and the joy of making for many years to come.

Book information

ISBN: 9781580934503
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Imprint: The Monacelli Press
Pub date:
Edition: Revised and expanded edition
DEWEY: 745.2092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 639
Weight: 2420g
Height: 245mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 45mm