REVIEWS FOR GLIMMER
“One of the best Innovation and Design books of the year.”
BusinessWeek
"Like Malcolm Gladwell, Warren Berger writes engagingly about expertise for a general audience."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Warren Berger loves the art of design, and this book is about brilliant ideas. More specifically, it’s about the thinking behind the brilliant ideas....Thoughtful, sparky and profound.”
"Berger's fascinating book looks at how design, the mental process of solving a specific problem, can be applied to all aspects of our life—and how the potential to be governed by good design is inside all of us."
“In Glimmer, Berger argues that basic design strategies can be adapted to everyday issues—such as how to get along with colleagues, how to balance work and life, and how to ease gracefully into old age.”
“An accomplished take on design and those who create it.” (Also listed as one of the “10 Great Gift Book Ideas”)
“A design book for the rest of us.”
GOOD magazine, Siobhan O’Connor
“The premise of this book is that design is applicable to just about any challenge—and its principles are accessible to anyone.”
CNN, “Can design change the world?”
“A different way of thinking about design—as a means of creative problem-solving.”
“These days, the buzz in business circles is all about 'design.' Gurus such as American journalist and author Warren Berger have preached convincingly about how design holds nearly unlimited potential to solve problems.”
“With a gift for storytelling, Berger establishes ten principles that readers can use to spark ‘the glimmer of possibility and potential.’”
“In Glimmer, Berger explores what designers have been saying for years—that good design has already changed our lives and will keep doing so in the future.”
“Refreshing…eminently readable and breezily informative… has the easy anecdotal style used by Malcolm Gladwell for more than a few blockbusters… Berger has provided the reader context not only to understand, but also to believe that the principles of design can solve problems in the real world.”
“Explores design’s profound, often hidden, influence.”
Please check out the GlimmerSite blog to find a lot more information about the book, including a summary, a table of contents overview, excerpts, reviews, a Q&A with me, a Glimmer Glossary, and profiles of the Glimmerati, the many top designers and academics I interviewed for the book. You'll also find lots of articles on innovation and design along with comments from the Glimmer community.
