History & Criticism

Ornaments are omnipresent - they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to art and architecture and influences design drafts as much as...

A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business,...

A sumptuous monograph tracing the life and legacy of fashion luminary Oscar de la Renta. In October 2014 one of the fashion world's champions, Oscar de la Renta, passed away, a great loss brightened by the innumerable successes of his half-century reign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048095Author Stuart WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink's philosophical investigation into fashion to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543460Author Carl DisalvoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth century, the Khamsa gained popularity in the...

This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the most successful and recognized brands in the world. Known for both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis...

What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which dominate it, and its potential to fundamentally change the way we practice and think about design. The reader...

Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is...

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718275Author Daoud SarhandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045728Author Jonathan ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358126607Author Kurt KohlstedtFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048668Author Terresa MosesFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 23mm

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118022Author Warren BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm...

'Design in Conservative Times' tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape. The focal point of this reflection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869772412Author Tom BielingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

The Independent Group is now the subject of global scholarly interest, and this book, a sequel to The Independent Group: Modernism and mass culture in Britain, 1945-59, explores the Anglo-American phenomenon from a new perspective. The Group included...

An Industry Classic, Revised for the Modern Age This classic guide to winning readers for designers, art directors, and editors, has been completely updated to be applicable to both online and print publication design. Because it has truths about...

Graphics have a way of living that is often awkward and unplanned. We see it when they are ripped from walls, littered on streets and faded in shop windows. We wouldn't say they are that way by design, however this everyday difference between graphics...

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on the objects from the collection of the Museum of European...

In the small world of Swiss graphic design, prizes such as the Swiss Design Awards (SDA) are followed closely. The winners' works are admired, envied and emulated. The generous prize money allows designers to launch their careers and focus on lesser paid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083350134Author Silvio LorussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Set Margins' publicationsPublisher Set Margins' publications

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,...

This volume traces the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Questions tackled address the aesthetic effects that result from the networking, overlapping, and mixing of forms as...

The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of influence to notions of desire and affirmation. The aim of this publication is not only to take into account...

Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and...

A landmark of graphic modernism, the Vienna Secession's magazine is brought to life in a complete facsimile reprint with new essays and translations The brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Josef Hoffmann, Bertold Loffler and others-the leading...

An unprecedented, definitive look at the school's typography and print design, from its early expressive tendencies to the functional modernism for which it is famed today The Bauhaus looms large as one of the most influential legacies in 20th-century...

Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic Views What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy...

The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such cliches. More than 30 years after German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262036610Author Nathan KravisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to...

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2017 AIGA 50 books 50 covers in the book and book cover design category..Book InformationISBN 9780262036504Author David ReinfurtFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148420Author Chris LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 12mm

When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments...