Graphic Art category: 1709 books
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design
Creating designs users really love
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive...
Flip charting
quick guide and handy hints
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Flip Charting Quick Guide and Handy Hints has been developed as an introduction to flip charting for facilitators, trainers, corporate managers and anyone that is seeking a dynamic and engaging way to run face to face presentations. It has been designed to be simple to follow and easy to refer back...
Critical Design in Context
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining...
Design for Sustainable Change
How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Design for Sustainable Change explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the issue of sustainability. It discusses the ways in which design thinking is evolving and being applied to a much wider spectrum of social and environmental issues, beyond its traditional professional...
Design Management
The Essential Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design. As a discipline, design management is continually in motion; changing, responding and adapting to the dynamics of social and business transformation. As a business function, it combines project management, design, strategy and supply...
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,...
by Dr David Hands
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Vision and Values in Design Management explores the value of design as a key strategic resource that can be utilized in the pursuit of securing a competitive advantage within highly complex and emergent markets.
Throughout the book, David Hands offers contributions from key thinkers and practitioners...
by Mabel Roberts Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Being Creative: Be inspired. Unlock your originality
20 thought-provoking lessons (BUILD+BECOME)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Creativity begins with you.
Through a series of 20 practical and effective exercises, all using a unique visual approach, Michael Atavar challenges you to open your mind, shift your perspective and ignite your creativity. Whatever your passion, craft or aims, this book will expertly guide you...
by Turkka Keinonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addressed in Designers, Users, and Justice, through a series of dialogues between a design scholar and a...
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...
by Jonathan Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us – for better or worse. The recent emergence of the sustainability imperative in product design compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in...
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,...
Steel
A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level – in terms of both what it has been...