Description: Reinventing the Wheel, Hardcover by Jessica Helfand, PAP 2002, First edition, Like New From Amazon: As inventive as instructive, information wheels-or volvelles-have been used since the fourteenth century to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything from time and space to military history and recipes. In this fascinating book, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers an in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing-where else could you dial-in ingredients to concoct "Creamed Oysters and Celery"?-but, Helfand argues, relevant as a model for modern interactive design. From circular mathematical slide rules to Captain Marvel phonetic decoders, from nuclear bomb blast calculators to gestational breeding planners, and from astronomical planispheres to presidential trivia plotters, Reinventing the Wheel demonstrates the astonishing range and remarkable utility of these ingenious "interactive" tools.
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Type: Textbook
Book Title: Reinventing the Wheel
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Topic: History & Criticism, History
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2002
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Design, Technology & Engineering
Item Weight: 29.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Jessica Helfland
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
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