Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
Structure and Form in Design
Critical Ideas for Creative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in...
Textile Technology and Design
From Interior Space to Outer Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers. Chapters examine the way...
Interaction Design
From Concept to Completion
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Interaction Design explores common pitfalls, effective workflows and innovative development techniques in contemporary interaction design by tracking projects from initial idea to the critical and commercial reception of the finished project.
The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing...
by Lászlo Roth, George L. Wybenga
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever!
For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging design challenges.
This Fourth Edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately,...
A John Heskett Reader
Design, History, Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.
Heskett, who passed away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. His research was foundational...
Architecture & Design versus Consumerism
How Design Activism Confronts Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford —...
by Massimo Paperini
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
“Yacht Design, Interior and Superstructures” confirms the interest of young architects, engineers and designers in boat design, a subject always in need of new ideas, new design solutions and a new approach. This new approach is meant to be applied to expertise in new technologies, new materials...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world.
Interior architecture and interior design are...
British Design
Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards...
Design by IKEA
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the brand with a particular image of Swedish national identity – one that is bound up with ideas of social...
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...
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...