Mieke Gerritzen is back with Next Nature, a critical and visual take on man's continuous efforts to imitate and improve nature itself. A child walking in a pineapple wood telling her father that the wood smells like her shampoo. Greener grass, you get used to it. A book full of statements, short essays and images from designers and thinkers from around the world, designed by Mieke Gerritzen in the same format as her previous, successful titles Mobile Minded and Everyone is a designer.
Author Biography
Mieke Gerritzen is founder of NL.Design, an Amsterdam-based design company that produces designs for all media. Mieke has taught multimedia design at the Sandberg Institute and the Rietveld Academy. She designed books, catalogues and posters and has been appointed new director of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda as of January 1, 2009. Koert van Mensvoort is a philosopher, scientist, researcher and artist. He is an assistent Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and co-director of the All-Media foundation, an organisation that researches and visualizes current cultural issues. Among his works are the Datafountain, the TV documentary The Woods smell of Shampoo and the Fake for Real memory game.
