Beading Inspiration: How to Use Color in Jewelry Design Book

This is an enjoyable MoMA-produced (it came out of an exhibition of the same name) book with many cocktail-party worthy anecdotes about the design and development of 'indispensable' everyday items like band aids, post-its, chinese take-out boxes, safety pins, coffee cozies, ballpoint pens, and more. it is interesting to see how these items came to be and you can really appreciate the innovation and creativity of the inventors, but the book is also a celebration of excessive consumption and the creation of a global disposable mindset which has led to trash, trash and more trash. aside from the literal trashing and landfill filling of items designed to be thrown away, there is also the issue of the pollution caused by the development of the plastics and various chemicals necessary to many of these things. so while i enjoyed learning the various factoids, my enjoyment was heavily tempered by the feeling that need is relative and i don't know that we 'needed' all of these items which we now have in such abundance.