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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and...
Il futuro del contemporaneo. Conservazione e restauro del design
The future of the contemporary. Conservation and restoration of design
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Il volume raccoglie gli atti di Il futuro del Contemporaneo. Conservazione e restauro del Design, primo convegno internazionale in Italia sul tema, organizzato a Napoli dalla Fondazione Plart dal 14 al 15 maggio 2015, nell’ambito del Festival Internazionale di Design. Storici del design, storici...
Design Thinking
Understanding How Designers Think and Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious "design ability".
Focusing on what designers do when they design, Design Thinking is structured around a series of in-depth case studies of outstanding and expert designers...
Graphic Design Rants and Raves
Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is...
This is Service Design Thinking
Basics-Tools-Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from various fields. This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought...
Org Design for Design Orgs
Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience...
by Mr Jamie Steane
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The Principles & Processes of Interactive Design is aimed at new designers from across the design and media disciplines who want to learn the fundamentals of designing for interactive media. This book is intended both as a primer and companion guide on how to research, plan and design for increasingly...
by Stefano Caggiano
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there...
Design Transitions
Inspiring Stories. Global Viewpoints. How Design is Changing.
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Discover where design practice is today - and where it will take us in the future. Design Transitions presents 42 unique and insightful stories of how design is changing around the world. Twelve countries are represented from the perspectives of three different communities: design agencies, organizations...
by Judith Gura, Sarah Falls
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2020
An Essential Resource for Interior Designers, Students, and Design Teachers
The Interior Design Reader is an essential source for the interior designer or design student, incorporating excerpts of key works on design theory from the ancient world to the twenty-first century. By documenting the ideas...
by S Balaram
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Thinking Design looks at 'design' in its broadest sense and shows how design originates in 'human need' which is not only physical but also psychological, socio-cultural, ecological and spiritual. The book calls for broad-based, socially integrated designs with a large global vision that offer creative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural...
An Introduction to Service Design
Designing the Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it.
Despite its intrinsic multidisciplinarity, service design is a new specialization...
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development
Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Product design and development (PDD) is an area of increasing importance to industrial competitiveness. In a global market, the competitive advantage of companies lies not only in mastering existing processes and methodologies, but also on their ability to pursue different directions, providing increased...