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New Grammar of Ornament by Thomas Weil
RRP: $62.40$43.47Ornaments 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... -
Digital Design: A History by Stephen J. Eskilson 9780691181394
RRP: $81.90$63.45A 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,... -
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style by Andre Leon Talley
RRP: $73.13$58.09A 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... -
Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind by Stuart Walker 9780262048095
RRP: $62.40$40.19Apologies 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 -
After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution by Elizabeth Guffey
RRP: $42.88$35.30How 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... -
Fashion: Seductive Play by Eugen Fink 9781350200388
$179.15In 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... -
Design as Democratic Inquiry: Putting Experimental Civics Into Practice by Carl DiSalvo
RRP: $56.55$47.64Apologies 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 -
Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs: In Association with the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris by Pamela Golbin
RRP: $117.00$111.56This 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... -
The Design Philosophy Reader by Anne-Marie Willis
RRP: $72.13$64.90What 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... -
Design History: A Students' Handbook by Hazel Conway
RRP: $72.13$63.43Hazel 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... -
Hard Life by Jasper Morrison 9783037785140
RRP: $68.25$49.32By 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... -
Bosnian War Posters by Daoud Sarhandi
RRP: $66.28$44.83Apologies 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 -
Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts by Jonathan Chapman
RRP: $44.85$31.26Apologies 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 -
The 99% Invisible City by Kurt Kohlstedt
RRP: $58.50$39.35Apologies 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 -
An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design by Terresa Moses 9780262048668
RRP: $58.50$38.61Apologies 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 -
Pop Art and Design by Anne Massey
RRP: $50.68$46.92This 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... -
CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People: Inside the World of Design Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovati on by Warren Berger
RRP: $46.80$33.05Apologies 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 by Joanette Van Der Veer 9789493148178
RRP: $29.25$21.27'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... -
Design (&) Activism: Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design by Tom Bieling 9788869772412
RRP: $48.75$39.59Apologies 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 -
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Independent Group and Popular Culture by Anne Massey 9780719088063
RRP: $165.75$117.33The 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... -
Editing by Design: The Classic Guide to Word-and-Picture Communication for Art Directors, Editors, Designers, and Students by Jan V. White
RRP: $58.48$40.25An 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... -
Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic Design by James Dyer 9789493148666
RRP: $42.90$27.40Graphics 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: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin by Magdalena Buchczyk 9781350226739
$183.71Weaving 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... -
The Prize of Success: The Swiss Design Awards and the Closed Networks of Promotion by Jonas Berthod 9783837671919
RRP: $107.25$79.38In 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... -
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Silvio Lorusso 9789083350134
RRP: $39.00$32.96Apologies 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 by Maurice Barnwell 9781612496245
RRP: $58.40$47.83Design 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,... -
Design Dispersed: Forms of Migration and Flight by Burcu Dogramaci
RRP: $76.03$52.03This 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... -
Advertising and Design: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Cultural Field by Beate Flath
RRP: $72.13$59.26The 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... -
Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research: Ethnographic Insights by Johanna Schindler
RRP: $76.03$62.36Artistic 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... -
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 by Diane V. Silverthorne 9781736863312
RRP: $117.00$82.41A 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... -
Bauhaus Typography at 100 by Ellen Lupton
RRP: $68.25$46.88An 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... -
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition) by Steven Heller
$37.64Balancing 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... -
German Design 1949-1989 by Mateo Kries
RRP: $136.50$87.26The 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... -
On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud by Nathan Kravis
RRP: $52.65$36.25Apologies 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 -
The Design Culture Reader by Ben Highmore
RRP: $72.13$64.21Design 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: Ethnography and Design by Sarah Pink
RRP: $46.78$40.93Making 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... -
Muriel Cooper by David Reinfurt
RRP: $107.25$80.03Apologies 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... -
Immutable: Designing History by Chris Lee
RRP: $42.90$27.40Apologies 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 -
Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Design Manifesto by Mieke Gerritzen
RRP: $25.33$16.77When 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... -
Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium by Niek Hilkmann 9789493148864
RRP: $35.10$23.28Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today. The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, and challenges...