Aesthetics Aside? Observations on Design in the Everyday

"From riding escalators in a city to chart its ascent to visiting a factory that manufactures plastic chairs used everywhere, this collection of thirty essays chronicle Justin Zhuang's decade-long search for design in the everyday. Each offers a journey beyond the stylish "designer" world, on to the designed graphics, environments and objects that we encounter daily. Design never looked so ordinary, and extraordinary."--Cover.