Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
Discover Design Pattern Thinking
Applying New Design Techniques to Improve Our Mental Operacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"Thinking skill in unquestionably the fundamental human resource. We need to do much more about developing this skill, because the complexity of modern life demands more than routine reactions. There is an even bigger need for productive, constructive and generative thinking" I hope that...
The Art and Craft of Printing
"Give me love and work, these two only."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed...
by Benjamin H. Bratton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
What is the new normal? Something has shifted, it seems. We are making new worlds faster than we can keep track of them, and the pace is unlikely to slow. If our technologies have advanced beyond our ability to conceptualize their implications, such gaps can be perilous. In response, one impulse is to...
Digital Design for Print and Web
An Introduction to Theory, Principles, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
The all-inclusive guide—from theory to practice—for print and Web design
Any well-conceived print or Web design features the dynamic interplay between visual artistry and technical skill. It becomes important, therefore, for the designer to cultivate an aesthetic eye as well as develop...
Fashion Pattern Cutting
Line, Shape and Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Designed to boost draping confidence and design creativity, Fashion Pattern Cutting is a step-by-step guide to the pattern cutting process, from finding inspiration for a fashion-forward design through to creating the finished product.
- Clear visuals show each step from mood board to patterns...
Craft of Use
Post-Growth Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.
Here...
Autodesk Inventor 2018 Black Book
Autodesk Inventor Black Book, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The Autodesk Inventor 2018 Black Book is the first edition of our series on Autodesk Inventor. With lots of features and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step by step methodology. In...
Becoming Designer
Education and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Design Research is an area that is both current and growing, but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book is a response to the vitality of discussion within journals and at conferences, and it intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education...
Fusion 360 for Makers
Design Your Own Digital Models for 3D Printing and CNC Fabrication
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device. Fusion 360 software lets you design, analyze, and print your ideas. Free to students and small businesses alike, it offers solid, surface, organic, direct, and parametric modeling capabilities.
Fusion...
by Wongvipa Devahastin Na Ayudhya, Jane Doughty Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
With over 150 photographs and insightful text, this Thai design book showcases some of the best interiors in the country.
Known for its beautiful traditional and contemporary handicrafts, it's no wonder that Thailand is home to some of the most beautifully decorated houses in the world. Elegant,...
The Erotic Cloth
Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times, shocking and disquieting. This book is the first critical examination of the erotically charged relationship between the surface of the skin and the touch of cloth, exploring the ways in...
by Daniel Sheets Dye
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The definitive work on an area of Chinese design, long recognized as an important folk art. 1,239 designs are shown, with titles, commentaries, and other information: 265 groups of design based on parallelogram, octagon, hexagon, single focus frames, wedge-lock, parallel waves, swastikas, U-scroll, and more.
Twentieth Century Limited
Industrial Design In America 1925-1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey...
by Gregory Votolato
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From oar-powered quinqueremes, to steam-powered freighters, to luxury ocean liners such as the Titanic,to aircraft carriers like the Abraham Lincoln,ships have played an integral role in trade, transportation, and war throughout history. Today, ships remain the largest and most expensive moving objects...