Graphic Art category: 1709 books
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics.
The Architecture of Ethics helps...
Iterate
Ten Lessons in Design and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.
Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
We propose that design thinking and design reasoning can play an important role in assisting the field of mental health as it explores what it means to move expertise beyond current health care settings. The clinical literature is comprised of three donminant modes of discussion: a) theory which explores...
Mismatch
How Inclusion Shapes Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20...
Making Jeans Green
Linking Sustainability, Business and Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Consumers spend approximately $93 billion on denim products every year. This consumption comes at a great cost, with thousands of litres of fresh water, hazardous chemicals and energy contributing to just one pair of jeans, leaving the environment and the industry vulnerable to pollution and climate...
Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly...
Designing with Sound
Fundamentals for Products and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Sound can profoundly impact how people interact with your product. Well-designed sounds can be exceptionally effective in conveying subtle distinctions, emotion, urgency, and information without adding visual clutter. In this practical guide, Amber Case and Aaron Day explain why sound design is critical...
by Canadian Rubber Co.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
First published in 1906, this vintage book contains an illustrated catalogue of "Royal Canadian" boots and shoes for both men and women. It includes information concerning the company, as well as an exposition of their ethos, an overview of their quality standards, details relating to their manufacturing...
by F. P. Veitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed investigation into the composition of sole leathers in the early twentieth century. A thorough and comprehensive treatise, "Leather Investigations - The Composition of Some Sole Leathers" will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in the leather...
Integrating Programming, Evaluation and Participation in Design (Routledge Revivals)
A Theory Z Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation. The implications for such integration are far reaching,...
Dress and Society
Contributions from Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and...
Inkjet Printing on Fabric
Direct Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Inkjet printing on fabric is a highly popular technique, due not least to the accessibility of the basic materials: desktop PCs and printers. There is strong interest from both textile artists and creative quilters, but the technical equipment can be an obstacle for many practitioners who have little...
Fashionable Encounters
Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and...
by William Barry Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and, notwithstanding the determined assaults of the attacking hosts, the contention and its cause remain pretty much as they were at the commencement of the...