Design category: 5388 books
by Scott Millett
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Design patterns are time-tested solutions to recurring problems, letting the designer build programs on solutions that have already proved effective
Provides developers with more than a dozen ASP.NET examples showing standard design patterns and how using them helpsbuild a richer understanding of ASP.NET...
Dreamweaver CS6
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS6, Dreamweaver solidifies its role as the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to...
by Ruth Cash-Smith, Barbara Janoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Visual-thinking graphic designers sometimes struggle to express themselves clearly and effectively in writing. Now there’s help! The Graphic Designer’s Guide to Better Business Writing teaches graphic designers how to write compelling business communications. Created especially to address the...
Cool Beer Labels
The Best Art & Design from Breweries Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Cheers to beer design!
The days of boring, mass-produced yellow fizz-water are all but over. These days, independent beer makers are creating a wide variety of interesting beers that exhibit a vast range of depth and flavor. Beer is more than a beverage--it's an artisan craft championed by...
Ryokan
Japan's Finest Spas and Inns
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
With over 180 color photographs and extensive commentary, this book showcases the beauty of Japanese inn, or ryokan.
Featured are both old and new-from inns with a history dating back a thousand years to modern inns with the latest facilities that nonetheless capture the spirit of old Japan....
A Theory of Craft
Function and Aesthetic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes...
UX for Lean Startups
Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable...
by Harvey Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The beautifully illustrated homage to the art of beer—and the design that makes it stand out
The craft beer boom of the last decade has led to an explosion of new breweries. In such a crowded market, how do you make your beer stand out from the crowd? For many of the best brewers, the secret...
Fashion Portfolio
Design and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The book takes the reader through all the major steps of fashion portfolio creation. It features the main components of the design process from the identification of inspiration sources and fashion trends research to conceptualization of a complete fashion collection. The topics covered include mood/fabric...
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Organized so as to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, Layout Look Book 2 is an essential guide to layout design for both amateur and professional designers. The book includes techniques that can be used to enhance any layout, as well as insights into the factors that helped...
Make Yourself at Home
Design Your Space to Discover Your True Self
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From the author of the hit journals The 52 Lists Project and 52 Lists for Happiness, comes a home design book that helps you discover how to style your home for a deeper sense of comfort.
Part self-help, part memoir, part décor inspiration, fans of Moorea Seal will love this book for its warm...
by Rhonda Eleish, Edie van Breems
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A well-designed Swedish room, whether an antique-filled country home or a contemporary industrial loft space, has a calm and feel-good quality that literally permeates the atmosphere. See how some of the most authentic advocates of Swedish design are using these ideas in their own homes, places of...
Twenty Over Eighty
Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and...
Traditional Interiors
Leta Austin Foster, Sallie Giordano & India Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Leta Austin Foster is among House Beautiful’s most influential interior designers of the 20th century, and has been hailed by House and Garden as one of the “100 Greatest Interior Decorators.” Whether it’s a 19th-century Virginia family home or a modern South Florida country club, Foster believes...