Warren Berger  
author & journalist

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What people are saying...

“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.”
Fast Company, Michael Cannell
 
“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?”
 
“One of the best Innovation and Design books of the year.”
 
“A different way of thinking about design—as a means of creative problem-solving.”
 

“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.”
Core77 blog, Robert Blinn
 
“Explores design’s profound, often hidden, influence.”
Chicago Tribune, from article “The best books for everyone on your list”
 
“An accomplished take on design and those who create it.” (Also listed as one of the “10 Great Gift Book Ideas” for 2009)
 Reader’s Digest, Maureen Mackey
 
“The ‘glimmer movement’ includes basement tinkerers, technologists, do-it-yourselfers, ‘crafties,’ social activists, environmentalists, and business entrepreneurs. What links them is their belief that everything today is ripe for reinvention. What makes them all designers is that they don’t just think this, they act on it.”
Wired magazine (UK), featuring excerpt from Glimmer
 
“Berger challenges readers to move beyond the correlation between design and style to associate design with problem solving.”
 
“Glimmer offers marketers insights into modern consumers… and holds inspiration for non-marketers, too, with its accounts of regular folks who had a ‘glimmer moment’ – a sudden vision of the possible – and followed through to create something useful. Berger offers tips to spark such moments.”
 
“Berger argues that we need great design now, more than ever.”
Connecticut Public Radio, “Where We Live” broadcast
 
“The book goes beyond the how-to approach and looks at design as a cultural phenomenon – a force of change in today’s world.”
 
“Sheer brilliance. Berger’s book is full of pointed anecdotes about how things become easier through design breakthroughs. His larger point is that designers find elegant solutions through questioning what others accept as reality.”
Washington Spaces, Emily Lyons
 
“It’s mind expanding and fun to read… one of the best books about design I’ve read.”
 
“Extraordinarily well-written… This is the first book about the process of design as practiced at its highest levels, written by an expert journalist for the layperson, that describes exactly how designers think about and view the world.”

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Welcome to my site. I’m a book author who also writes for magazines and newspapers. In October 2009, The Penguin Press published my new book, Glimmer, about the power of design to transform the way we live. This project, which has been several years in the works, has taken me inside the studios and deep into the creative minds of some some of the world’s top designers and design experts, including Bruce Mau.

Along with a link to my magablog, GlimmerSite.com, I’ve provided a diversified sampling here of what the book has to offer, including the following:

- a brief summary overview of the book

- a peek at the table of contents, which lists “the 10 principles of Glimmer” and an excerpt of the book's introductory chapter

- a Q&A with the author (in which I ask myself some questions that frankly I wasn’t expecting)

- a taste of some of the more provocative and inspiring quotes or “glimmerisms” contained in the book

- a roundup of “the glimmerati” — the great designers featured in the book

- a glossary of some of the fascinating design terms that the book explores and explains (including my personal favorite, “chunking.”)

- my soon-to-be-famous “Design Is” chart, comprised of 18 surprising definitions of design from people who ought to know
 

Because there is more to my life than Glimmer (though it doesn’t seem that way at the moment), I have included pages on my other books, my magazine articles, and a bio.


If you want to get in touch with me or with the publicists working on Glimmer, the contact page will tell you how.


Thanks for stopping by.


 

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