The Thing About Jetpacks. Essays about designing wonderful things

In 2013, I wrote a book of design essays with my friend Lukas Mathis and we sold it as a hardcover book. Here's a free version of it.

The Thing About Jetpacks; essays about designing wonderful things: Bell, Jon, & Lukas Mathis: 9780615859668: : Books

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