Reminder: Paid Subscribers and Founding Members can now download their free eBook for 2025
I posted the column below last week and a number of paid subscribers acted and downloaded the free eBook. However, a majority of paid subscribers and Founding Members did not. So, I am again reminding all to follow the instructions below the paywall to get your free eBook.
Amazon description of the book:
“This book calls for initiating a golden age of design and redesign for the 21st century. Humanity stands on the threshold of a new era that calls for nothing less. In this historically unprecedented decade of the 2020s, the trajectory of humanity for the next 50 years will be shaped. It can only be done with completely new guidelines of Planetary Systemic Design that Fathers and Houle set forward. The climate crisis, over population, artificial intelligence, the future of education, cities, transportation, energy, new forms of reality all require that humanity let go of past thinking and inadequate design principles to fully redesign what exists and design anew nothing less than what humanity must do now! This book will trigger a complete transformation of design thinking for our collective future.”
Here is a review from the president of a major design college:
As the president of a pre-eminent art and design college, I have long stated that creativity, design, and design thinking are becoming ever more important in the 21st century. Indeed, I feel these attributes will become the “oil” of the future. This book is a must read because it demonstrates why this is so by showing how design thinking and design are the primary way for humanity to move forward with any chance of fashioning a sustainable and worthy future.
I firmly believe that this book may be one of the most significant books about the importance of design published in this century. With the massive changes and disruptions occurring today, design, creative thinking, and redesign are at the core for humanity to have a prosperous future. That’s why this book is a must read not just for designers but also anyone involved in charting our collective future.”
Dr. Larry R. Thompson, President of Ringling College of Art and Design
Below the pay wall is the information needed for paid subscribers to get their free eBook download.
[NOTE: As a newsletter writer, I personally can’t stand what many newsletters do, which is to start an interesting column and then there is the notice that to read any more you have to pay up. This feels like a bait and switch to me. [I am not criticizing those that do, I am just not following suit]. I have taken the position that everyone can read what I write, but that by paying you get additional stuff: an annual free eBook, access to the full archive, and the opportunity to comment on any column. In addition, I offer up full columns just for paid subscribers that only goes to them. So, please sign up for a paid annual subscription today get all these benefits, and provide support to me to continue this newsletter, [you might be able to also download a second eBook next year with an annual subscription.]]