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by Type Directors Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 33 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in the field for the...
Design renovation dilemmas and fundamentals EBook
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION BY BOOK AUTHOR – NEO CHEOW YEE, ROLAND WHAT ARE THE FIRST FEW FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN AN INTERIOR DESIGN RENOVATION? HOW TO MAKE GOOD USE OF SPACE PLANNING HOW TO MAKE GOOD USAGE OF LIGHTS TYPES OF LIGHTINGS AND USAGES/EXPLANATION HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE...
New Life for Old Houses
A Guide to Restoration and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
"Explains the most important functional and aesthetic design issues, shows how simple design theories can be applied to rehabilitation problems, and describes many of the common pitfalls." — Library Journal.So you want to put new life into your old house without destroying its special qualities? Then...
Passive Solar Architecture
Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate.
In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners,...
by Nicholas T. Dines, Kyle D. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
Get answers FAST with the Landscape Architect’s One-Stop,Take-It-Anywhere Guide
In the office or out on the job, the Landscape Architect’s Portable Handbook puts the 20% of information you need 80% of the time at your fingertips! You get instant data for every architectural landscaping...
Passive House Details
Solutions for High-Performance Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and...
by Amanda Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Discover the joys of upholstery and bring new life to your worn-out furniture. With a few basic tools, an eye for color, and some ingenuity, you can customize your home with fabrics and textures that reflect your unique personality. This comprehensive guide features more than 900 photographs and includes...
Tropical Living
Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This tropical design book showcases the innovative interior designs and architecture of The Philippines most luxurious homes.
Start with a warm tropical climate. Add an abundance of exotic natural building material. And then let the cross currents of Asian design and aesthetics create a rich...
The Proven Winners Garden Book
Simple Plans, Picture-Perfect Plants, and Expert Advice for Creating a Gorgeous Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Garden with the confidence of a winner!
Proven Winners is America’s #1 plant brand. And now they are sharing their expert plant knowledge and creative design ideas in their first book, The Proven Winners Garden Book. This definitive guide starts with lessons on how to prepare a space, tips...
The Logo Brainstorm Book
A Comprehensive Guide for Exploring Design Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Don't Wait for Inspiration to Strike
Whether you're facing a new logo project or you've reached a block in your current work, The Logo Brainstorm Book will inspire you to consider fresh creative approaches that will spark appealing, functional and enduring design solutions.
Award-winning...
Amateur Craft
History and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of...
City Choreographer
Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from...
by E. A. Vander Veer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Macromedia's Flash 8 is the world's premier program for adding animation to websites. And with the latest version, this popular program becomes more versatile, letting beginning webmasters and expert developers alike create sophisticated web content. But Flash isn't intuitive. And it doesn't come...
by Otl Aicher
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Otl Aicher's writings are explorations of the world, a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction, he assures us of the possibilities of arranging existence in a humane fashion. As ever he is concerned with the question of the conditions...