General Design category: 1730 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers,...
Designing for Service
Key Issues and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Service design is the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between service provider and customers. It is now a growing field of both practice and academic research. Designing...
by Garold (Gary) Oberlender, Robert Peurifoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
The definitive guide to formwork design, materials, and methods--fully updated
Formwork for Concrete Structures, Fourth Edition, provides current information on designing and building formwork and temporary structures during the construction process. Developed with the latest structural design recommendations...
Architectural Intelligence
How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity.
In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity...
Steel
A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level – in terms of both what it has been...
Designing Disability
Symbols, Space, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal – physical access for the disabled – through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development...
Message Communication Arts Research
Mapping Eclecticism through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice brings together a range of graphic design practices and approaches that include the use of socially responsible design and persuasion, as well as collaboration with other disciplines, to improve safety; framing theory and ideograms within architectural pedagogy...
Materiali e innovazioni nel Design
Meccanismi di innovazione. Presentazione di Vanni Pasca.
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Questo libro affronta una questione di grande attualità nell’ambito della discussione sul design: il nesso fra i materiali e il meccanismo di innovazione del prodotto. In questa fase dello sviluppo, in cui aumentano straordinariamente le potenzialità di materiali e processi, il libro vuole fornire...
Sustainable Thinking
Ethical Approaches to Design and Design Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Sustainable Thinking explores how values and sustainability can reshape the way design management is practised and applied. The book discusses how designers can combine innovative creative thinking with analytical problem-solving skills to produce outputs that are business ready and ethically driven.
Examples...
Verbalising the Visual
Translating art and design into words
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Verbalising the Visual: Translating Art and Design into Words by Michael Clarke introduces readers to a broad range of language and terminology: formal and informal, academic and colloquial, global and local, all of which can be found in current art and design discourse.
Exploring the complex...
Inclusive scenarios for Hospitality
From integration to social inclusion between Interior Design and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book promotes an inclusive approach in designing spaces, products and services for Hospitality sector. Methods and tools proposed try to change the actual state of the art in attempt to delineate a cultural change, from integration to social inclusion, through a design drive approach.
Idea Searching for Design
How to Research and Develop Design Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The second edition of Idea Searching examines methods of generating and identifying ideas, and teaches you to understand what is being observed and recorded. Using lavish illustrations, concise case studies and practical examples, it explores how different experiences, contexts and references are...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics.
The Architecture of Ethics helps...
Designing with Sound
Fundamentals for Products and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Sound can profoundly impact how people interact with your product. Well-designed sounds can be exceptionally effective in conveying subtle distinctions, emotion, urgency, and information without adding visual clutter. In this practical guide, Amber Case and Aaron Day explain why sound design is critical...