more than half in color

and Dreamland

Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor

The processes of global industrialization and mounting consumerism produce so much refuse on a daily basis that recycling and upcycling have become hot topics of vital global importance

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The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison Upcycled more than half in colorBy what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre industrial society. The