Design category: 5388 books
A John Heskett Reader
Design, History, Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.
Heskett, who passed away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. His research was foundational...
by Jim Postell
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The comprehensive guide to furniture design— expanded and updated
Furniture designers draw on a range of knowledge and disciplines to create their work. From history to theory to technology, Furniture Design offers a comprehensive survey of the essential craft- and practice-related aspects...
by Massimo Paperini
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
“Yacht Design, Interior and Superstructures” confirms the interest of young architects, engineers and designers in boat design, a subject always in need of new ideas, new design solutions and a new approach. This new approach is meant to be applied to expertise in new technologies, new materials...
Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer
A Guide to Careers in Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Begin your graphic design career now, with the guidance of industry experts
Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer is a single source guide to the myriad of options available to those pursuing a graphic design career. With an emphasis on portfolio requirements and job opportunities, this guide...
by Mark Karlen, Christina Spangler, James R. Benya
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A visual, real-world guide to professional lighting design
Lighting Design Basics is the essential guide to this basic, but difficult-to-master aspect of interior design. Offering fundamental concepts and prescriptive techniques in a highly visual format, this book provides clear, practical...
by Rosemary Kilmer, W. Otie Kilmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
A complete guide to preparing construction documentation from a design perspective
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors has become a must-have guide for students of interior design. It covers the essentials of traditional and computer-aided drafting with a uniquely design-oriented...
Exterior Building Enclosures
Design Process and Composition for Innovative Facades
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A comprehensive guide to the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures
Focused on the design process for architects and related professionals, this book addresses the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures for a number of commercial building...
Teaching Graphic Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
More Than Sixty Course Syllabi That Bring the New Complexity of Graphic Design to Light
All graphic designers teach, yet not all graphic designers are teachers. Teaching is a special skill requiring talent, instinct, passion, and organization. But while talent, instinct, and passion are inherent,...
Visual Research
An Introduction to Research Methods in Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Packed with more than 200 colour illustrations, Visual Research explores a range of research methods that can be used by graphic designers and visual communicators in the development of clear and purposeful design solutions. The book introduces key terms and theories that underlie design research;...
by Thoriq Firdaus, Ben Frain, Benjamin LaGrone
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Design robust, powerful, and above all, modern websites across all manner of devices with ease using HTML5 and CSS3
About This Book
Use Responsive Grid System, Bootstrap, and Foundation frameworks for responsive web design
Learn how to use the latest features of CSS including custom fonts, nth-child...
British Design
Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards...
Design by IKEA
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the brand with a particular image of Swedish national identity – one that is bound up with ideas of social...
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...