Design category: 5388 books
Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated
125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions,
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find...
by Rachel Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
If you're new to landscaping and you're not sure if you should DIY design the garden yourself or hire a designer, this book will explain what's involved, to help you decide. There's also tips on how to hire the right landscape contractor to build your garden as well as tips on the best places to learn...
POP
How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things),...
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged...
by Malcolm Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been,...
Graphic Design, Referenced
A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense...
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference....
by Chiu-Shui Chan
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers...
Citizen Designer
Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
What does it mean to be a designer in today’s corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designerattempts to answer this question with more than 70 debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the...
Design Is The Problem
The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have...
Design Leadership
Securing the Strategic Value of Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The fundamental tenet of this Design Leadership book is that design is a commercial and social imperative and its management and leadership are integral parts of what can make business successful, government effective and society safer and more enjoyable for everyone. The text draws on Raymond Turner’s...
Interior Design Clients
The Designer's Guide to Building and Keeping a Great Clientele
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Clients are the lifeblood of any interior design firm and a sound understanding of how to manage those clients is essential. Interior Design Clients is an informative yet fun read for entrepreneurial designers interested in gaining a better understanding of how to build and manage their clientele....
by Marian Keeler, Prasad Vaidya
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The Fully Updated, Indispensible Study of Sustainable Design Principles
Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building is the first textbook to merge principles, theory, and practice into an integrated workflow. This book introduces the technologies and processes of sustainable...
Digital Design Theory
Readings from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the field of design. As graphic design moves from the creation of closed, static objects to the development of open, interactive frameworks, designers seek...