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For over fifteen years, world-renowned Swiss master florist Nicole von Boletzky has been one of the most celebrated trendsetters within the international florist guild. Her creations cause a sensation far beyond the borders of her country, and for years...

How does design make the indestructible character of a drill tangible? Why does a brand become a trusted friend? And what emotions should intelligent gardening tools actually radiate? The accurate communication and design of emotional worlds remain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490693114Author Louise SchouwenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839980459Author Elizabeth DePoyFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Wimbledon Publishing CoPublisher Wimbledon Publishing CoWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451629Author Ana Elena MalletFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

Design is one of the most rapidly changing fields in the art world, as professionals, students, and teachers must reckon with new technologies before the older versions have much time to collect dust. In The Designer, Rosemary Sassoon surveys fifty years...

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,...

Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal and illegal in a variety of ways. Martin argues that design is not necessarily for the social good; it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876244629Author Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2070g

Ohio's long quiltmaking heritage prepared the way for the contemporary "pioneer" artists of the 1970s and 1980s, who, through individual vision and dedication, have created a new art form and added a new chapter to quilt history. Uncommon Threads: Ohio's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262511865Author Glenn AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1225gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 241mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078454717Author Angelika BurtscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938461460Author Iris DanknerFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behaviour and increasingly influences...

This accessible handbook from design guru Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. In friendly text complemented by photographs taken on his travels around the world, Forbes explains how to...

This volume reveals a major trend taking place today in visual and material culturethe radical appropriation of consumer goods as raw material for art- and object-making. A growing number of artists, craftspeople, and designers are realigning traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881426000Author Sandu Cultural MediaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Sandu Cultural Media Co LtdPublisher Sandu Cultural Media Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810788650Author Louis BouFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 986g

Geert Pattyn, one of the most renowned floral designers in Belgium, has a very natural and personal style. In this brand-new monograph, Pattyn is introduced in his natural surroundings. His own home and garden are his source of inspiration and provide a...

First published in 1984, and reissued in a facsimile edition that preserves the formal ingenuity of the original text, Designing Designing contains a crucial and invigorating selection of J. C. Jones' writings on design methodology.Book InformationISBN...

Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spending, and the introduction of neoliberal values into academia. Arguing 'in defense of' anthropology, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235835Author Sandu Cultural MediaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 1197g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235613Author Sandu Cultural MediaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 905g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235910Author Sandu Cultural MediaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 1177g

Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally...

Design for the New World aims to introduce a new paradigm in design and design thinking, by shifting our approach from a human perspective that is primarily focused on human scales, needs, and desires, to a planet perspective, in which design is guided...

Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of...

Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this,...

Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.Participatory artistic- and...

Ever since TIME magazine’s 1983 ‘Man of the Year’ was the PC, we have been led to believe that our domestic spaces have been colonized by digital technology. Too little attention has been paid to the domestic spaces and inhabitants impacted by this, and...

Reading Graphic Design History uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters,...

• Presents evidence-based design examples from a real-world demonstration house • Illustrated with colour images and graphics • Focus on residential housing whereas most other books focus on products or care homesBook InformationISBN 9781032306490Author...

This book is the first to explore what design can do for sociolegal research. It argues that designerly ways—mindsets that are practical, critical and imaginative, experimental processes and visible and tangible communication strategies—can be combined...

Through the lens of sensory affect, this book offers a new way of thinking about day-to-day teaching and student engagement within learning spaces in design education.The book examines the definitions, concepts, ideas, and overlaps of a repertoire of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457324Author KarlssonwilkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 180g

Today, it seems more urgent than ever to focus more attention in design on the common good. This is because we are faced with the consequences of a design methodology that is geared towards the good of individuals wherever we look. The concept of public...

Visual information is everywhere. We are constantly immersed in a flow of visual data that reshapes our social and inner world. Companies and individuals are competing to conquer the public's scarce attention by inventing distinctive visual formats to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457317Author Adrian ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 210g

Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. This book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed...

The Designline is a 4.5 metre long illustrated history of design, which can either be used as a booklet, or unfolded as a large poster. It includes examples from important epochs and exemplary forms - be it in the shape of a kidney-shaped table designed...