General Design category: 1730 books
by Gavin Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
How do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief? How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more.
Now in its second edition, the highly popular Design Thinking for Visual Communication identifies methods...
Citizen Designer
Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic Views
What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints...
Brandjam
Humanizing Brands Through Emotional Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Brandjam, the follow-up to the groundbreaking best-seller Emotional Branding, presents a powerful new concept from renowned designer and business guru Mark Gobe. The Brandjam concept is about innovation, intuition, and risk. Gobe explains how design is the instrument” companies can use for jazzing...
Design Sprint
A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
With more than 500 new apps entering the market every day, what does it take to build a successful digital product? You can greatly reduce your risk of failure with design sprints, a process that enables your team to prototype and test a digital product idea within a week. This practical guide shows...
by Avinash Rajagopal
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
What if you could press a button and have a machine build you any product you wanted? What if we all had the means to modify our physical environment, to tweak and subvert objects produced for us by designers and manufacturers? A new generation of hardware hackers is making steady progress toward making...
Digital Materialities
Design and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments?...
The Senses
Design Beyond Vision
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body. Learn how contemporary designers, including Petra Blaisse,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The principle of personalisation appears in a range of current debates among design professionals, healthcare providers and educationalists about the implications of new technologies and approaches to consumer sovereignty for 'mass' provision. The potential of new technologies implies systems of provision...
Structure and Form in Design
Critical Ideas for Creative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in...
Textile Technology and Design
From Interior Space to Outer Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers. Chapters examine the way...
by Kathryn Best
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The book explicitly places the principles and processes of design within the context of a business or enterprise, explaining how design management can relate to the cultural, environmental, political and social impact of an enterprise. It emphasises the inter-disciplinary nature of design management,...
Encountering Things
Design and Theories of Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects.
Focusing on the themes of process and product,...
FireSigns
A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practicing designers.
Graphic design has been an academic discipline since the post-World War II era, but it has yet to develop a coherent theoretical...
by Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical...