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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522939Author John BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262324311Author Kees DorstFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369765Author Dokument PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Describes the tools, strategies, and techniques for costume designers and a step-by-step design process.Illustrated throughout with full color inspirational and instructive photos.The perfect guidebook for the Costume Design student, aspiring, or...

Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art and literature, it also had a profound impact on the world of design. From Dali's Mae West Lips sofa to...

An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, and functionality of Nordic design - timeless, yet on trend From literature to food, lifestyle to fashion, cinema to architecture, Nordic influence is evident throughout contemporary...

How design students learn sustainably How do I teach design? Why is listening so important? What can we learn from other disciplines and cultures and from each other? Answers to these and other questions are offered by Sven Ingmar Thies and his 24...

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...

This gorgeously photographed volume features the under-published private spaces of both the icons and unknown vanguards of European mid-century architecture and design. In keeping with the functional beauty of mid-century design, Handcrafted Modern:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262570213Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535793Author Ann M. Pendleton-JullianFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 14mm

Design for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishment's Innovation Park. Known as Chris and Sally's...

Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception-in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of...

William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement of the Victorian era, and left...

This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600617973Author David SherwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint How Design BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262560641Author Russell FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862g

This volume presents vessels, fittings and other objects made in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Yemen from the early Islamic period through to the end of the Ottoman era in the 19th century. The pieces include exquisite platters, serving-vessels, candlesticks...

A major new overview of 100 of the world's best contemporary interior design projects, chosen by 10 of the world's leaders in the design world.About the AuthorNacho Alegre is a cofounder of Apartamento Magazine. Apartamento is a biannual,...

The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262512404Author Hannah B HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters,...

The essential guide to the story of London's acclaimed museum - from its origins in the 1980s to its pivotal move in 2016 London's Design Museum is entering an exciting period in its life as it prepares to move to the former Commonwealth Institute in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887757238Author Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd.Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and...

How can social theory help us all design solutions to address the social, political and ecological challenges that confront us, and build more sustainable communities? Design professions have typically been associated with intervention and action,...

What if we designed for all of our senses? Suppose for a moment that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the equals of sight, and emotion considered as important as cognition. What would our built environment be like if sensory response, sentiment,...

Jan Le Witt and George Him were a comparative rarity, a graphic design duo; signing their work as 'Lewitt-Him' they brought an innovative use of colour, imaginative abstraction and symbolism to commercial design. Both Polish by birth, they arrived in...

As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262540292Author Donis A DondisFormat PaperbackPage Count 2042Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Honorable Mention in the Foreword Indie Awards 2016 For many design students, the expectation is that they will one day reach the top of the ladder within a design studio or corporation and become an art director. But what does this mean and how does...

"Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world - including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the...

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of traditional Japanese ceramic culture as interpreted by today's leading designers The art of Japanese porcelain manufacturing began in Arita in 1616. Now, on its 400th anniversary, Arita / Table of Contents charts the...

The success of a piece of communication has always been dependent on the connection between content, form, audience and context - what the message is, who it's aimed at, what it looks like, and how and where it's communicated. In recent years the balance...

These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of...

Data Design: Visualising quantities, locations, connections is a lively and comprehensive introduction to data visualisation, illustrated with 199 instructive data displays. The book is for designers, journalists, editors, writers and anyone concerned...

The fundamental tenet of this Design Leadership book is that design is a commercial and social imperative and its management and leadership are integral parts of what can make business successful, government effective and society safer and more enjoyable...

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it-to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of...

This is the first monograph to be published in English on the highly influential French graphic designer Robert Massin (b. 1925), popularly known only as Massin. The book covers his extensive career, which encompasses book publishing, art direction and...