Design category: 5388 books
by Douglas Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The Business Skills Every Creative Needs!
Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity--you need to understand the language of business. The problem is that design school doesn't teach the strategic language that is now essential to getting your job done. Creative...
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style...
Downsize with Style
A 5-Step Process to Create a Happy Home and Refine Your New Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
EXPERIENCE LESS STRESS WHILE DOWNSIZING AND DISCOVER CREATIVE, COST-EFFECTIVE WAYS TO ACHIEVE A STYLISH INTERIOR Downsizing is often associated with negative feelings and emotions. With her beautifully illustrated practical guide Downsize with Style Bettina Deda encourages you to see it differently,...
The Design Activist's Handbook
How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
We Want You!
Will you join the ranks of design activists?
Doing good is too important to think of as work better left to those fictitious "other" designers. People more famous. More talented. More connected. Richer. Younger. Braver. (Insert your own mental roadblock here.) In truth,...
The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now
An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design—not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic...
Beautiful Users
Designing for People
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss—widely considered the father of industrial design—pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people's behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products. In the intervening years, user-centered design...
Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World
Design Museum Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Design Museum brings you fifty bicycles that changed the world we live in!
The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology....
New Mythologies in Design and Culture
Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes' classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity. In nine chapters Houze considers a range of contemporary phenomena, from the history of sustainability to the...
Perfect Imperfect
The beauty of accident, age & patina
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
If you have read The House that Pinterest Built, Smart Spaces, The Alchemy of Things, or Elements of Style you're going to love Perfect Imperfect.
Wabi-sabi and new creative interior design expressions: Perfect Imperfect is a stunning collection of homes and studios of creatives from all over...
by Amanda J. Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A company’s visual identity - as it appears in everything from business stationery and brochures, to product packaging and websites - is central to a company’s impact on the market. It’s the first impression a prospective customer gets: but for many businesses, design is seen as a ‘necessary...
Inside the Business of Graphic Design
60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Inside the Business of Graphic Design casts a precise and realistic light on the risks, requirements, and rewards of running a creative and successful design business. Six sections discuss the entire cycle of business ownership, including goal setting, finding the right management style, cooperating...
by Smashing Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The foundations of good UX design lie in transparent navigation and interaction patterns and systems. A solid understanding of the rules is as important as knowing when to break them. How should you set up menus for optimal usability? Does mobile UX design follow different rules? How can you use...
by Smashing Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Designing for Mobile can be very complex – it requires many skills such as programming, usability, typography, creating applications… all of this without forgetting the necessary ingredient of visual appeal. This eBook "Essentials of Mobile Design" will give you an overview of the basic...
by A. Michael Shumate
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Between 75 to 80% of all books are sold online, whether they are hardback, paperback or digital. That means the first cover a customer is likely to see is going to be about 160 pixels tall or smaller. That, in turn, means that some design techniques that used to work are no longer viable. Learn the 21st Century approach to book cover design because people do judge a book by its cover.