General Design category: 1730 books

This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here...

Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device. Fusion 360 software lets you design, analyze, and print your ideas. Free to students and small businesses alike, it offers solid, surface, organic, direct, and parametric modeling capabilities. Fusion...

This updated edition of the much-heralded classic of page design offers surefire ideas and inspiration to anyone stuck with the task of designing cutting-edge printed material. This book is a collection of more than 2,000 visual "idea generators"-illustrations and line art-that visualize the various...

Danish Modern explores the development of mid-century modernist design in Denmark from historical, analytical and theoretical perspectives. Mark Mussari explores the relationship between Danish design aesthetics and the theoretical and cultural impact of Modernism, particularly between 1930 and 1960....

ENDORSED BY GLOBAL CREATIVE LEADERS: "Ram is revealing what would take years to learn for students and graduates in one punchy, practical book. It's a powerful manifesto for the next generation of designers to demand the best from themselves." - Matt Eastwood, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer...

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling booktraces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new...

As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often...

While many other areas of design have commercial aspects, the success of a piece of packaging design is inextricably linked with its ability to sell a product. Packaging the Brand discusses the implications of this commercial function for a designer. It explores methods of visually communicating...

As students prepare to enter the world of work, there are many decisions that they need to make about what type of career they want: Freelancing? Working in a design agency? Setting up their own business? They also need the practical advice about how to work with clients, how to organize themselves,...

Conundrum is a mind-stretch. Encrypting idioms into their typographic equivalents, Harry enlivens our everyday language and challenges readers to see that "time after time after time" or, at least, "more often than not" "the writing is on the wall." For fans of word puzzles,...

Whether you drool over their horsepower or decry their emissions, the car is an important and ubiquitous part of nearly all of our lives. And the history of their design and the innovations of their technologies can tell us a lot about how our values and attitudes have changed. In this book, Gregory...

Contributi teorici e narrazioni per immagini si dipanano in questo volume proponendo una riflessione sul design della comunicazione per il welfare. I contributi includono lo sguardo delle politiche sociali, della sociologia urbana e delle culture del design e introducono le ragioni di un progetto dedicato alla costruzione dell’identità per il “welfare di tutti”.

Testo di riferimento per più generazioni, "Cos'è un designer" si rivolge agli "studenti di ogni età" che si avvicinano alla progettazione e al design con l'intento di comprenderne le ragioni più profonde e le implicazioni sociali più urgenti. Pubblicato per la prima volta...

Artigiani, operai, terzisti, venditori, imprenditori, pr, giornalisti, curatori ci aprono le porte di laboratori, studi, luoghi di produzione, factory, negozi. Un'incursione nei mestieri del design, designer a parte.