Design category: 5388 books
by Mark Lawson, Peter Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly, appearance. Whilst the choice of the structural form...
by Smashing Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
User Experience (UX) can be strongly influenced by behavioral factors such as emotions, beliefs, preferences and even cultural backgrounds. Being aware of this, Web designers keep developing strategies to improve the overall UX with the help of storytelling, tools for problem solving, relationship...
by Smashing Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
While users expect content to be unique and exciting, they also prefer clear, predictable patterns when it comes to navigation. After all, navigation is merely a means to an end: consuming content without hassle and not spending too much time looking for it. The foundation of a solid, frustration-free...
by Otl Aicher
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Otl Aicher (1922-1991) was an outstanding personality in modern design, he was a co-founder of the legendary Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), the Ulm School of Design, Germany. His works since the fifties of the last century in the field of corporate design and his pictograms for the 1972 Summer...
The Bureaucracy of Beauty
Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the...
Urban Climate Challenges in the Tropics
Rethinking Planning and Design Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm, humid tropics of Asia and Latin America. In these places, the global trend of rapid urbanisation and conditions of local warming compound the effects of climate change.
This three-part book explores the...
Message Communication Arts Research
Mapping Eclecticism through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice brings together a range of graphic design practices and approaches that include the use of socially responsible design and persuasion, as well as collaboration with other disciplines, to improve safety; framing theory and ideograms within architectural pedagogy...
Universal Design
A Practical Guide to Creating and Re-Creating interiors of Academic Libraries for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Universal Design provides practitioners, graduate students, and other professionals interested in obtaining practical advice on how to effectively create and re-create interiors of academic libraries for teaching, learning, and research. The academic library ‘as place’ continues to evolve around...
by Francesc Zamora
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The most recent volume in the highly successful 150 Best series, this comprehensive handbook showcases the latest in efficient and successful small space design.
Filled with 500 pages of beautiful full-color photographs, 150 Best Mini Interior Ideas profiles dozens of exciting interiors that...
The Architecture of Ruins
Designs on the Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and...
In & Out of Paris
Gardens of Secret Delights
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Among the more than 30 great and small projects within In & Out of Paris are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Courances—all classic André Le Nôtre–style French gardens. Also discover the Paris gardens of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and art aficionado Pierre Bergé, architect Kenzo...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art...
Materiali e innovazioni nel Design
Meccanismi di innovazione. Presentazione di Vanni Pasca.
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Questo libro affronta una questione di grande attualità nell’ambito della discussione sul design: il nesso fra i materiali e il meccanismo di innovazione del prodotto. In questa fase dello sviluppo, in cui aumentano straordinariamente le potenzialità di materiali e processi, il libro vuole fornire...
by Kostas Terzidis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This unique volume challenges the reader to tackle all...