Design category: 5388 books
Graphic Design Discourse
Evolving Theories, Ideologies, and Processes of Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses the hand of the artist but fails to communicate with...
Home Design Ideas for the Budget-Wise Homeowner
Budget Home Decorating Tips For Living Room Décor, Kitchen Décor, Bedroom Décor And Other Room Decor Ideas Plus Inexpensive Decor Accents So You Get The High-Priced Style And Charm For Less
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Designing a new house can be difficult and very costly; especially if it is not your area of expertise. There are several things to consider before finalizing a design. Colors, textures, style techniques, and of course, the working budget. Decorating is a matter of personal taste. Style, colors and...
Professional Web Design
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Web design, with its wide range of disciplines and fields, is not an easy nut to crack. However, it is possible to put together a book with some of the crucial principles and fundamentals that you will need for every project you take on.
Learn about the harsh truths of corporate Web design...
Hello World
Where Design Meets Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness....
How to Run a Successful Design Business
The New Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The design sector has expanded rapidly in recent years, and now covers a wide range of specialist disciplines from branding and communications to product, commercial interiors and digital. Yet design firms often lack long-term vision, strategies and plans, and research from the Design Council shows...
by Christine M. Piotrowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A practical, comprehensive resource for commercial interior design
Designing Commercial Interiors is the industry standard reference, now fully revised and expanded to reflect the latest developments in commercial interior design. This book guides you through the entire design process, from...
A Graphic Design Student's Guide to Freelance
Practice Makes Perfect
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
A complete guide to freelance graphic design—created specifically for design students
Why wait until you graduate? Freelancing is a great way to jumpstart your career in graphic design. It lets you apply what you've been learning in school, close the gaps in your education with real-world...
Concept Generation for Design Creativity
A Systematized Theory and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The concept generation process seems like an intuitional thought: difficult to capture and perform, although everyone is capable of it. It is not an analytical process but a synthetic process which has yet to be clarified. Furthermore, new research methods for investigating the concept generation...
by James A. Crowder, Shelli Friess
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This book examines the paradigm of the engineering design process. The author discusses agile systems and engineering design. The book captures the entire design process (function bases), context, and requirements to affect real reuse. It provides a methodology for an engineering design process foundation...
Open Design
Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Open Design Now looks at design in the new networked world. Design is becoming an open discipline, in which ideas are shared and products are being renewed in a worldwide collaborative process. Open Design empowers everybody to devise and distribute their own products. This book presents essays, case...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal both the challenges for and the potential of this...
Axiomatic Design in Large Systems
Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book provides a synthesis of recent developments in Axiomatic Design theory and its application in large complex systems. Introductory chapters provide concise tutorial materials for graduate students and new practitioners, presenting the fundamentals of Axiomatic Design and relating its key...
Visual Communication Design
An Introduction to Design Concepts in Everyday Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling...
Design Anthropology
Object Cultures in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century.
Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success. Today the design...