General Design category: 1730 books
Teaching Motion Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
How motion design is taught in more than 45 leading programs. * Detailed syllabi and descriptions of class projects and assignments * Go-to guide for professors and teachers planning their courses * Course plans from School of Visual Arts, Ohio State, Rochester Institute of Technology, many other...
by Johan Redström
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.
Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms....
by George Elvin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world’s leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource. Post-Petroleum Design brings them together for the first time.
Readers will be introduced to the...
Rapid Contextual Design
A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?
This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive...
Design and Ethics
Reflections on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.
Approaches...
by Michael Salmond, Gavin Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This book will help you design media that engages, entertains, communicates and 'sticks' with the audience. Packed with examples of groundbreaking interactive design, this book provides a solid introduction to the principles of interactive communication and detailed case studies from world-leading...
Design, History and Time
New Temporalities in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasises schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality...
Becoming a Design Entrepreneur
How to Launch Your Design-Driven Ventures from Apps to Zines
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Any designer who runs a studio, office, or firm is entrepreneurial. In fact, anyone with a studio already has an infrastructure for entrepreneurial content development, and with the technological developments over the last few decades, there are more opportunities now than ever. The use of computers...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
An Examination of the Practice Through the Years
Teaching the history of graphic design cannot simply be outlined by dates nor confined by places, but is defined by concepts and philosophies, as well as those who made, make, and inspire them. Teaching Graphic Design History is the first collection...
Design Management
The Essential Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design. As a discipline, design management is continually in motion; changing, responding and adapting to the dynamics of social and business transformation. As a business function, it combines project management, design, strategy and supply...
by Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise, easy-to-read...
Design Methodology
Theoretical Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This book is addressed to students and teachers in design degrees and researchers interested in logical thinking of design. Just like any other discipline, design must accredit its rational fundamentals to refer the conditions of knowledge that determine it as a specific object of study. Methodology...
Design e innovazione tecnologica
Modelli d’innovazione per l’impresa e l’ambiente
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Collana STUDI E RICERCHE DI ARCHITETTURA del Dipartimento di Architettura Università degli Studi G. d’ Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, diretta da Paolo Fusero La sezione Design e progettazione tecnologica, Dept, del Dipartimento d’architettura di Pescara ha promosso, in questi anni, specifiche attività...
Teaching Design
A Guide to Curriculum and Pedagogy for College Design Faculty and Teachers Who Use Design in Their Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
An Expertly Written Guidebook to Teaching Design at All Levels
Teaching Design provides a practical foundation for teaching about and through design. The exploding interest in design and design thinking calls for qualified faculty members who are well prepared for a variety of institutional settings...