History & Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940064486Author Christiane LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940064295Author Gideon OfratFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940064189Author Olaf NicolaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

This is the essential student's guide to Design - its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design - from...

A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the...

This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social...

Based on a series of lectures developed by noted furniture designer Richard Schultz, this brief, striking book lays out his design manifesto both challenging and adding to Louis Sullivan's credo "form follows function." From African stools...

In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change?...

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward...

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men's bodies -often working-class ones -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546317Author Mads Nygaard FolkmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking...

Craft Communities addresses the social groups, old and new, which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix" disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049061Author Ladislav SutnarFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Italy is a major player in the global fashion industry, yet little has been written about its contribution to fashion curation. This book explores the management, display and curation of Italian fashion heritage, highlighting the role played by companies...

Making hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The...

This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organisations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey,...

This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present day. Addressing as it does questions of non-Western design and a design practice that is both radical and...

This book seeks to establish the meaning of design research, its role in the field, and the characteristics that differentiate research in design from research in other fields.The author introduces a model to explain the relationship between the...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated...

Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a...

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward...

Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit tells the compelling story of how Walt Disney's beloved graphic alter ego, the most enduring pop icon ever created, was born, how it soon took on a life of its own, and became an instantly recognisable figure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125788Author Isabel ProchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780847838851Author Tourbillon InternationalFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Children's Universe,U.S.Publisher Children's Universe,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Numbers can tell an exciting story. The trick is to know what story to tell and make it understandable. This compact, practical guide will show everyone who must design numeric data how to transform raw data into readable, relevant information.The...

Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siecle and interwar periods - both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists - all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350183742Author Martin AvilaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959053068Author Philipp OswaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545471Author Susan M. HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Since the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of understandings. This is especially true for practice-based design research. Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan...

A new pictorial reference book for artists and designers, with over 400 images from sources ranging from Greco-Roman art to Benjamin Franklin and Wes Anderson - Symbols offers a fresh approach to understanding symbolism in the visual arts Symbols are...

A visual history of the first quarter century of Bard Graduate Center This handsome publication celebrates the first 25 years of the institution founded by Dr. Susan Weber in 1993. Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Bard Graduate Center (BGC)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788829703135Author Olivier SaillardFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio

Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Its focus is on contemporary designed objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and...

An extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network. This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue,...

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work of Oscar Reutersvard (1916-2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvard drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course...

Lino Tagliapietra is arguably the world's finest living glassblower. Raised on the island of Murano, the Venetian glass center, Tagliapietra began learning the trade at the age of 11 from Muranese masters and had earned the title of maestro by age 21. He...