Design category: 5388 books
The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture
Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Incorporate SketchUp into every phase of your design
If you want to go beyond the basics and start using SketchUp 3D modeling software in all phases of your design, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is the perfect place to start. From preliminary schematics to construction documentation...
by John Henry Krahenbuhl
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Become an Axure Master! Explore designs and interactions leveraging adaptive views, AxShare plugins, repeaters and more!About This BookOptimize designs for desktop, tablet and mobile viewports with Adaptive ViewsBuild mastery of Repeater widgets and interactionsExpand Axure’s core interactions...
Data-driven Graphic Design
Creative Coding for Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Digital technology has not only revolutionized the way designers work, but also the kinds of designs they produce. The development of the computer as a design environment has encouraged a new breed of digital designer; keen to explore the unique creative potential of the computer as an input/output...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The last decades have seen remarkable advances in computer‐aided design, engineering and manufacturing technologies, multi‐variable simulation tools, medical imaging, biomimetic design, rapid prototyping, micro and nanomanufacturing methods and information management resources, all of which...
Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials
Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A visually sumptuous idea book, showcasing an eclectic array of interior design possibilities using salvaged goods.
Following up on her celebrated first Salvage Secrets book, which Fine Homebuilding called “An invaluable first step in the salvage-for-design journey,” here salvage design...
Color, Facture, Art and Design
Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a product of the division of labour and alienation as it operates within the realms of theory and art history.It...
by Ms. Jane Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Basics Architecture 03: Architectural Design explains the process of designing architectural projects. It describes the design studio and the activities that take place there.
The architectural design process is as diverse as the people who practise it; all architects follows their own individual...
by Cheryl Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
British culture is marked by indelible icons—red double-decker buses, large oak wardrobes, and the compact sleekness of the Mini. But British industrial and product design have long lived in the shadows of architecture and fashion. Cheryl Buckley here delves into the history of British design culture,...
by Dr Robert Harland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Graphic Design in Urban Environmentsintroduces the idea of a category of designed graphic objects that significantly contribute to the functioning of urban systems. These elements, smaller than buildings, are generally understood by urban designers to comprise such phenomena as sculpture, clock towers,...
Builders of the Vision
Software and the Imagination of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping...
Design/Build with Jersey Devil
A Handbook for Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fifth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that...
by James Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Having an understanding of garden design goes a long way towards growing the garden that you desire.Gardening does not have to be as difficult as it seems, by developing a basic understanding of what to plant, and where, you can transform your garden from something that saddens you into something...
Design Wise
A Guide for Evaluating the Interface Design of Information Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A badly designed Web site interface can result in a site that is hard to find and hard to use but a well-designed interface helps users find and utilize the information they need quickly and easily. Explaining what interface design is and how to evaluate it, this guide explores the importance of...
Creative Engineering Design Assessment
Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality. Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are...