ReadyMade
How to Make (Almost) Everything
A Do-It-Yourself Primer
Shoshana Berger
Grace Hawthorne
Photographs by Jeffery Cross
Illustrated by Kate Francis
Designed by Eric Heiman / Volume
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| ‘Packed full of interesting ways to breathe new life into products, you’ll never throw anything away again’ | | – Scotland on Sunday |
| ‘Practical, stylish and witty’ | | – Grand Designs |
Readymade is a cult publication that describes itself as
‘a magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects’.
This quirky, witty ‘how-to’ volume, the magazine’s incarnation in book form, is full of inventive and clever design projects – from water-bottle lounge chairs and ladder shelving to shopping bag rugs and denim dog beds – guaranteed to inspire modern do-it-yourselfers.
| 'ReadyMade embodies a spirit of not just DIY, not just reuse/recycle, but a revolutionary sort of aesthetic ethos that allows us to make elegant objects from unelegant things … For now, it’s the only tasteful way to have taste’ | | – Dave Eggers |
• All the projects look handsome; they incorporate a common object; they challenge the do-it-yourselfer; and they recontextualise common-or-garden objects – shopping bags, water bottles, chopsticks …
Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne founded 'ReadyMade' magazine in 2005. This is their first book.
Also of interest:
The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office
Collapsibles: A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects
You Can Do It: The Complete B&Q Step-by-Step Book of Home Improvement |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500513384 | | ISBN-13 978-0500513385 | | | | 22.8 x 18.8 cm | | Hardback without Jacket | | 208pp | | Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout | | First published 2006 | | | | £14.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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