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Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Solve your traffic troubles and turn browsers into buyers
When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range...
Designing the French Interior
The Modern Home and Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs,...
Cinematic Aided Design
An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of everyday life through the medium of film. This novel approach will also appeal to film scholars and film...
by Penny Sparke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Today’s home is filled with pieces from Pottery Barn, IKEA, and Crate & Barrel, and we pore over glossy catalogs in hopes of achieving the “modern interior.” This idealized aesthetic is the subject of Penny Sparke’s study, as she explores the style in both its absolute form and the diverse...
The Moderns
Midcentury American Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters;...
The Strategic Web Designer
How to Confidently Navigate the Web Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Expand your strategic capabilities and technological understanding!
Your clients are looking for an expert--someone who understands rapidly changing technology and can provide strategic insight into their web projects from inception and development to launch and beyond. Are you that person?
Today,...
IdeaSelling
Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients & other Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Don't let your creative ideas get picked apart and put down!
If you're like most creative people, chances are high that you've had your share of ideas rejected by clients or decision makers. While we sometimes make the mistake of believing ideas should sell themselves, the fact is that the...
by John Thackara
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware design
Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John...
Communication Design
Insights from the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The success of a piece of communication has always been dependent on the connection between content, form, audience and context – what the message is, who it's aimed at, what it looks like, and how and where it's communicated. In recent years the balance between these elements has shifted.
This...
by Barbara Baer Capitman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This collection of 732 American trademarks and symbols is widely representative of major past and current trends in American trademark design. The marks are arranged in categories that include entertainment, education, real estate, insurance, food and beverage, retailing, transportation, utilities,...
by Stephen McIndoe, Andrew Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Delivering patient safety, increased return and enhancing reputation. The essential resource for implementing sustainable packaging labelling and artwork capabilities. Foreword by Steve Richmond, Head of Global Packaging, AstraZeneca. The knowledge and expertise contained in this book will help you...
Your Creative Work Space
The Sweet Spot Style Guide to Home Office + Studio Decor
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
We are all born with an innate desire to creatively express the essence of who we are. This desire is embedded into our soul, a gift at birth, our own Northern Star in a galaxy full of the unknown.
Your physical setting can either hamper or inspire this creative calling.
Known for her...
Designing for the Greater Good
The Best of Non-Profit and Cause-Related Marketing and Nonprofit Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This first-ever book of its kind, Designing for the Greater Good, features hundreds of illustrated examples of the best nonprofit and cause-related design worldwide, plus 24 inspiring case studies and insights into great nonprofit branding campaigns. A comprehensive resource for designers, creative...
by David Mann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
MR Architecture + Decor’s work—which, true to its name, straddles the line between architecture and interior design—is driven by the belief that close collaborations with clients lead to personalized and intimate homes. The first collection of the firm’s 20 years of work includes a brief history...