[Artful-Design] We have lift-off!

[Ge Wang]

Friends, engineers, citizens of the world — lend me your ears!

For the past three years, and thanks to a Guggenheim Fellowship, I have 
been working on a (488-page, full-color, comic) book — ARTFUL DESIGN: 
TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME — a design manifesto at the 
intersection of engineering, art, and philosophy.  Breaking down the 
design of tools, toys, wacky computer music instruments, video games, 
and social experiences, this book elaborates 100+ tacit principles of 
artful design and articulates an overarching aesthetic/moral-ethical 
dimension of technology.  Published by Stanford University Press, ARTFUL 
DESIGN was created entirely in the medium of a photo comic.

This is a book for anyone who has ever been curious, excited, or 
concerned about how we shape technology, and how technology shapes us in 
turn.  It's nerdy. It's philosophical. It's a core dump of my brain in 
comic form.  And it's here.

See for yourself:
    https://artful.design/
    (some of you might wish to reload your browser)

The chapters (and some tips on reading):
    https://artful.design/chapters.html

Order today, and I'll see you in the book:
    https://artful.design/buy.html

Do you know anyone else who might be interested in this book?
Please forward this email to them!

Ge!

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Ge Wang
Associate Professor
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy)
Stanford University
https://www.gewang.com/
~
Co-founder, Smule
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