Designed for Life: The World's Best Product Designers
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Designed for Life: The World's Best Product Designers is a survey of one hundred contemporary designers and studios, for design students, product designers, and readers who want an overview of current practice. Compiled by Phaidon Editors and published by Phaidon in 2025, the 304-page English-language hardcover features around 500 illustrations. It highlights studios such as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Formafantasma, and Bethan Laura Wood, and looks at how new materials, technologies, and ideas are shaping a more thoughtful approach to making.
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For coursework, the book works as a map of the field today, helping students find designers and approaches to research and compare. Essays and full-colour photography present each practice through its key projects, which makes it useful for precedent studies and for locating studios whose methods match a project's concerns. On a university reading list, it offers a broad, current starting point that complements historical surveys and individual monographs.
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