General Design category: 1730 books
by Richard Cromwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
DIY Inventions by Richard CromwellGuides an Inventor through ALL the Invention "Success Steps" to develop an initial idea into a new product which will earn an income.How to Evaluate your idea to see if it will earn money,How to select your best idea to start the Invention Success Steps,How...
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
No Nonsence Manuals, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book is aimed at those who wish to develop new or existing products and get them to market quickly. Ordinary practicing engineers are crying out for easy to apply engineering product development advice. How do you take the mystique out of it, keep it simple and ready to implement?
The...
Observing the User Experience
A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be...
Beginner’s Guide to Society6
How to Sell Graphic Designed Products & Create Passive Income With Society6
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Beginner’s Guide to Society6: How to Sell Graphic Designed Products & Create Passive Income With Society6
Learn How To Make Money As An Artist With Society6
Are you an artist and want to support yourself through your art? Who said that the age of the internet is killing the arts?
It’s...
Overcrowded
Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things.
The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders—users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective...
The Idea Agent
The Handbook on Creative Processes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Idea Agent is a practical idea management handbook, aimed at people who want to take an active role in creative processes across all areas. It combines the creatively wild with the rationally structured techniques for innovation to provide readers with a varied toolbox of proven idea management...
by Beam Vanwaardenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The project is a hand felted vest having LED's and displays on its surface.The fabric of the vest is "folded" and the way one makes felt from wool ( the way of making layers and using patches) is for me a metaphor for "the fabric of space-time".To give the vest a purpose, i created the possibility...
by Sonia Leong, Rob Bevan; Tim Wright; John Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Be Creative' marries Manga with tried and tested expert ideas in a stunning mixture of art and advice that takes self-improvement to a new level and is guaranteed to win a new generation of readers. 'Be Creative' is packed with information in 52 small but perfectly formed chapters, each with their own...
by Humbolt Lane
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Love to draw?
Then this book is for you.
From a firefly, pinata, a monkey, cool snowflakes to a medieval knight, the range of prompts featured- from simple to challenging- will inspire the joy of drawing.
Whether your draw professionally, are a budding artist or just like to...
The Trendmakers
Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Numerous tastemakers exist in and between fashion production and consumption, from designers and stylists to trend forecasters, buyers, and journalists. How and why are each of these players bound up in the creation and dispersion of trends? In what ways are consumers' relations to trends constructed...
by Mark O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Off the wheel, Off the charts. What sort of creativity could be happening for you if color was a more open question?...Eight very concise chapters.From the introduction:"Despite the many benefits to be had from a thorough study of hue, value and chroma the system has become too common...
Dress, Fashion and Technology
From Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology.
Over the course of...
Dressed for War
Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles, with overalls on over their trousers. What people wear matters. Well illustrated, this book tells the stories of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years...
by T. Welford
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
First published in 1926, “Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today” is a comprehensive handbook on the textile industry, dealing with every aspect from the basic materials and tools to bleaching, finishing, and beyond. Although old, this volume contains a wealth of timeless information that will...