General Design category: 1730 books
Coffee Lids
Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
If you're one of the 200 million Americans who drink coffee every day, you may have marveled at the ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid, with its clever combination of indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that can be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked to create an opening to...
Imaging the City
Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers, and media specialists to investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. Steve Hawley, Edward M. Clift, and Kevin O’Brien provocatively open up the field of...
SOUTHERN LIVING Style Guide
Decorating Tips and Tricks from the South's Most Beautiful Homes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Learn how to live Southern in every room of the house—from entryways and living rooms to kitchens and bedrooms—with more than 200 ideas for creating stylish spaces with paint, furniture, fabrics, accessories, and more.
Flow
Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between...
by Michael Hann
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments,...
The Customer-Driven Playbook
Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will...
Love Objects
Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
How are love and emotion embodied in material form?
Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility,...
The Creativity Code
The Power of Visual Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
While it might seem like some people are born with it, the fact is anyone can learn to be creative. Half of the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly to vision - that's the power of visual thinking. Companies such as Apple, Air B&B and Tesla, have shown that creativity outperforms entrenched...
Fashion Installation
Body, Space, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers’ Shakespeare presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this specialist art. By focusing...
by Derek Brazell, Jo Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator.
This edition features even more 'Spotlight on…' sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission...
Bouquet
Composizione e creatività
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 25, 2017
26 Bouquet, differenti per forma, stile e colore. Dalle domande emerse durante i propri corsi di Arte Floreale e dalle richieste delle sue Spose, Flavia Bruni presenta 26 originali Bouquet, descrivendo materiali, tecniche e suggerimenti per realizzarli o semplicemente trarre la giusta ispirazione....
by I. R. Awake
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Making a book cover from scratch is not as hard as you think it is. This book will take your fears away and have you making a book cover the same day.
This book was written in a manner to avoid a lot of excess words and it will take you straight to the points of what you need to know to get...
Digital Futures and the City of Today
New Technologies and Physical Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. Digital...