Design category: 5388 books
by John Patten ("Pat") Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
The Essentials of Building Design--at Your Fingertips!
Fully updated with the 2009 IBC International Building Code, this practical guide delivers the key data you need in every step of an architectural project--from initial planning and estimating through design and completion. The Architect's Portable...
Designing Apps for Success
Developing Consistent App Design Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In 2007, Apple released the iPhone. With this release came tools as revolutionary as the internet was to businesses and individuals back in the mid- and late-nineties: Apps. Much like websites drove (and still drive) business, so too do apps drive sales, efficiencies and communication between people....
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Revised and updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Top designers and educators talk theory, offer proposals, discuss a wide range of educational concerns-such...
Line Color Form
The Language of Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Design students today are more visually literate than ever before, and their learning style naturally favors the visual over the textual. So why should they learn art and design theory from a traditional textbook? The only guide of its kind, Line Color Form offers a thorough introduction to design...
Creative Workshop
80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you.
Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions,...
by Type Directors Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
For the past fifty-seven years, the Type Directors Club (TDC) has encouraged the graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual competitions. Typography 32 is the latest Annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field from 2010. Selected...
In the Neighbourhood
Spatial Design and Urban Activation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Neighbourhoods of contemporary cities are ‘hypersensitive’ and ‘fragile’ areas where dismantling and transformation processes generate fragmentation and displacement. Reconstruction and re-occupation of urban spaces guided by residents are becoming increasingly frequent in these places. This...
Design School: Type
A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Design School: Type is an in-depth guide to the rules and practices of typography, you’ll learn the essential skills of the professional typographer in the detail.
Searching for a way to increase your skills as a typographer? This instructive guide, specially designed for students, recent...
The Natural Building Companion
A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Natural buildings not only bring satisfaction to their makers and joy to their occupants, they also leave the gentlest footprint on the environment. In this complete reference to natural building philosophy, design, and technique, Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton walk builders through planning...
Nature by Design
The Practice of Biophilic Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and wellbeing. Given the pace and scale of construction...
Seeing and Making in Architecture
Design Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
You always aim to achieve that moment of insight that leads to ingenuity and novelty in your design, but sometimes it remains elusive. This book presents a variety of techniques for mapping and making hands-on design/build projects, and relates this work to real architecture. It helps you to learn...
Lighting Design
A Perception-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
By reading this book, you will develop the skills to perceive a space and its contents in light, and be able to devise a layout of luminaires that will provide that lit appearance.
Written by renowned lighting expert Christopher (Kit) Cuttle, the book:
explains the difference between...
Design School: Layout
A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Design School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially important skill that underpins practically every aspect of graphic design.
You'll get in-depth...
by A. J. Paron-Wildes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Interior Design for Austism from Birth to Early Childhood gives designers who are creating spaces for individuals with Autism, the exact information they need to create optimal spaces that can have a positive impact on special learning and sensory needs. This book also shows how to implement specific...