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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203410Author Francois ChailleFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1660g

We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951184Author Leo SteinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 1524gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 267mm * 25mm

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, but that...

Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970. Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist-makers such as...

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed...

A beautiful insight into the creative processes of one of the most exciting European design duos to have emerged in the last ten years.Reproducing Scholten and Baijings explores this dynamic design duo's relationships with manufacturers such as Herman...

The 3rd edition of Color Studies introduces students from all concentrations of visual arts to color theory, the physiology and psychology of color perception, and the physics of color. This text discusses in detail the four dimensions of color - hue,...

The second volume in the Beazley Designs of the Year catalogue series, offering a snapshot of the most exciting things happening in design today.Now in its twelfth year, the Design Museum's Beazley Designs of the Year award and exhibition showcase the...

This is a highly topical and important look at the development of a vibrant Chinese design culture within the context of China's recent history of industrialisation, consumer revolution and rapid urbanisation. Focusing on China's hopes and dreams - from...

Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches...

Joe Colombo (Milan, 1930-1971) was one of the greatest designers of the last century, visionary and ingenious, capable of giving shape to ideas that retain a striking relevance to this day. Trained first at the Brera Academy and then at the...

For more than 30 years, Leila Menchari (born 1928) was responsible for designing the traffic-stopping window displays at Hermes' prestigious flagship store at 24 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore in Paris. Menchari's aesthetic vision and her sense of colour...

Drawing - The Process is a collection of papers, theories and interviews based on the conference and exhibition of the same name held at Kingston University in 2003.Much debate and research is currently undertaken in this area and it is the intention of...

This is an overview of the top 100 leading young designers working across Asia, selected by the co-founders of one of Asia's foremost interior-design magazines, Design Anthology, based in Hong Kong. Featuring first-hand accounts from each designer, the...

One of the most complex global challenges is improving wellbeing and developing strategies for promoting health or preventing 'illbeing' of the population. The role of designers in indirectly supporting the promotion of healthy lifestyles or in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042727Author Christopher BardtFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this...

The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and...

Video Game Design is a visual introduction to integrating core design essentials, such as critical analysis, mechanics and aesthetics, prototyping, level design, into game design. Using a raft of examples from a diverse range of leading international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539494Author Kyna LeskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Dust Free Friends is a series of designs for small pieces of domestic furniture, designed by London-based 6a architects, that can be made very simply at home, in restricted spaces, with a small number of tools and without specialist skills. The lightness...

John Heskett was a pioneering British design historian, with a particular interest in design and economics. Design and the Creation of Value' publishes for the first time his groundbreaking seminar on design and economic value. In remarkably clear and...

Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context explains key ways of understanding and interpreting the graphic designs we see all around us, in advertising, branding, packaging and fashion. It situates these designs in their cultural and social contexts. ...

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of...

Provides concrete strategies for designing for devised productions that haven't yet been collected in one resource.Offers lessons learned from multiple experiences and perspectives through interviews with working practitioners.Gives step by step...

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018 In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the United States. In the first scholarly examination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540477Author Tony CouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Who can design? For too long, that question has highlighted the supposed division between right-brain dominant "creative types" and left-brain dominant "analytical types." Such a division is not practical for preparing students to become innovative...

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974 ) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the 20th century. Throughout his life he stood in the service of print and writing, first as a talented young calligrapher and designer of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611213Author Rudolf E. KuenzliFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial...

For decades the American artist Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering exponent of avant-garde jewellery. Her dynamic objects, charged with energy, are rooted in the revolutionary late 1960s European conception of jewellery and transgress the conventional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457300Author Alexandra SankovaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Unit EditionsPublisher Unit EditionsWeight(grams) 640g

Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In Design Discourse, Victor Margolin gathers together a body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227948Author Jorge EncisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043168Author Stephane VialFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440340543Author Print Books and Powerhouse FactoriesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint F & W Publications IncPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and...