Design category: 5388 books
Materials and Design
The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to modern electronics. This renowned book by noted materials engineering author Mike Ashby and Industrial...
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...
Creating Exhibitions
Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
“This is a must-read for the nervous novice as well as the world-weary veteran. The book guides you through every aspect of exhibit making, from concept to completion. The say the devil is in the details, but so is the divine. This carefully crafted tome helps you to avoid the pitfalls in the process,...
Colour Design
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Given its importance in analysing and influencing the world around us, an understanding of colour is a vital tool in any design process. Colour design provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of colour, from the fundamental principles of what colour is to its important applications...
by Julia Morrison, Will Potts, Ian Granger
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Design & Technology
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2018
Encourage your students to be creative, innovative and critical designers with a textbook that builds in-depth knowledge and understanding of the materials, components and...
by Jacki Piroddi, Sharon McCarthy, John Grundy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Exam board: OCR
Level: A-level
Subject: Design and Technology
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2016
Inspire your students to tackle the iterative design process with creativity and confidence, using a textbook that delivers the knowledge, understanding and skills they need...
Understanding Garden Design
The Complete Handbook for Aspiring Designers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to...
Introduction to Graphic Design Methodologies and Processes
Understanding Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
A concise, visually based introduction to graphic design methodologies
Graphic design has emerged as a discipline complete with a body of scholarly literature devoted to its underlying theory. Introduction to Graphic Design Methodologies and Processes contributes to this expanding discourse...
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...
Plant-Driven Design
Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles.
With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect...
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 Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
The "Silver Bible" -- thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned
Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field’s beloved "Silver Bible" for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial...