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Design the Life You Love
  • Published: 15 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781607748816
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $49.99
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Design the Life You Love

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future

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13 Oct 2015
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15 Oct 2015
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A joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer.

An interactive journal that serves as a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer.

Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances. You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. Design the Life You Love is a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you’ve always wanted, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Through four steps that reveal hidden skills and wisdom, anyone can design a life they love!
  • Published: 15 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781607748816
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Ayse Birsel

AYSE BIRSEL has been designing award-winning products for over twenty years. She is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an innovative design studio in New York that partners with leading brands and Fortune 500 companies. She teaches at SVA and has taught at the Pratt Institute. Her work is in the permanent collections of the MOMA and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She has received numerous design awards, including the IDEA Gold Award, ID Magazine Excellence Award, and Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from RISD.
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Praise for Design the Life You Love

Praise for the Design the Life You Love Workshops:

  • "Design the Life You Love is a great way to take a breath, take a look around--and AT, frankly--your life and start connecting the dots (or start figuring out what dots you might want to connect)! Ayse's energy and approach create a great space to inspire and be inspired..." - Sarah Gromley, Chief Marketing and Communications Executive at Girls Scouts of the USA
  • "Just knowing that I have shiny new tools--new ways to visualize change, should I want it--is as empowering as it is unsettling." - Linda Tischler, senior design editor of Fast Company and blogger for The Huffington Post