General Design category: 1730 books
100 oggetti del design italiano
Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano, La Triennale di Milano
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 25, 2012
La Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano della Triennale di Milano è unica in Italia per qualità e quantità del patrimonio oggettuale che la compone e costituisce la base per varie esposizioni ospitate in Triennale e in tutto il mondo, che hanno lo scopo di proporre una rilettura sempre nuova...
by Amy Twigger Holroyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Knitwear is a highly influential, though sometimes overlooked, element of contemporary fashion. It’s simple yet amazingly versatile textile structure offers endless possibilities for exploration. To develop a successful collection the knitwear designer must design both fabric and garment, employing...
The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The ultimate guide to human-centered design
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product...
Affordable Interior Design
High-End Tips for Any Budget
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Live in luxury—on a budget.
Homeowners and renters of all means dream of having a beautiful home. The media makes it look so easy, but many of us have less to work with and still long to live in style. Affordable Interior Design makes luxury an affordable reality. In this DIY home decorating...
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide
A Step By Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This full colour book explains the design process and is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and tested on students over time. If you already have a basic knowledge of permaculture, from either reading another book or attending a course, then this guide is probably just what...
Design Paradigms
Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1994
From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, he relates stories of some...
The Designing for Growth Field Book
A Step-by-Step Project Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit...
Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies...
by Celery Design Collaborative, Brian Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Can a graphic designer be a catalyst for positive change? Green Graphic Design reframes the way designers can think about the work they create, while remaining focused on cost constraints and corporate identity. Simple, eco-innovative changes are demonstrated in all phases of the design process, including:
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by John Heskett
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical...
Draplin Design Co.
Pretty Much Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in common: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design,...
by Mark Hinchman, Elyssa Yoneda
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....
Street Furniture Design
Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which are now familiar parts of our urban environment were designed to populate public spaces. Herring explores the design of lampposts, post boxes, parking meters, and signage in the context of a government...
by Dr Javier Gimeno-Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design.
Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive...