Glass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628924244)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author: John S. Garrison
ISBN-10: 1628924241
ISBN-13: 9781628924244
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2015
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.40h x 4.60w x 0.60d