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Saws, Planes, and Scorps is an exploration and celebration of high-quality hand tools for woodworking and the stories of the people who make them. Organized by the basic tools and beautifully presented with gorgeous photographs from the boutique makers...

Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer...

Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the brand with a particular image of Swedish national...

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. This new edition contains new examples and insights from recent publications. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold,...

To make designs that work and endure (and are also legal), designers need to know-or be able to find-an endless number of details. Whether it's what kind of glue needs to be used on a certain surface, metric equivalents, thread sizes, or how to apply for...

'Designing Japan' presents renowned designer Kenya Hara's vision of how his industry can support Japan in crafting a future founded on a unique philosophy of beauty as well as crowd-sourced wisdom from around the world. A master collaborator, meticulous...

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...

From a small design team working on the Silver Spirit/Mulsanne, to becoming Chief Stylist, Graham Hull peels back the curtain on an idiosyncratic institution during his time at Crewe. Throwing light on a factory motivated as much by pride as the...

Fashion Bags and Accessories explores fashion bags and related accessories, such as purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves and belts, through various approaches to creative design, product development, technological innovation, materials development,...

Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it continues to inspire designers to this day. "Objects of...

Speed, regulation and mass production defined the first Industrial Revolution, but we have entered a new era. Today's revolution has been driven by digital technologies and tools, giving rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets and consumer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998707075Author Wade MotawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint WadePublisher WadeWeight(grams) 649g

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...

What does it take to be the leader of a design firm or group? We often assume they have all the answers, but in this rapidly evolving industry they're forced to find their way like the rest of us. So how do good design leaders manage? If you lead a...

With more than 500 new apps entering the market every day, what does it take to build a successful digital product? You can greatly reduce your risk of failure with design sprints, a process that enables your team to prototype and test a digital product...

Considered to be one of the most popular models in automotive history, the FIAT 500 has become a legend over time. Its innovative features, the original and recognizable design of its bodywork, and its versatility have distinguished it as an automotive...

"A great gift for design aficionados and interiors addicts." - Irish Examiner With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden...

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso.Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all,...

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." -James Clear, author of Atomic Habits "If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into...

This stylish publication celebrates the impact of contemporary Nordic style on interiors, furnishings and product design. Its attractiveness lies in the simplicity, attention to detail and high quality of materials that have long been associated with...

Great package design has magic qualities. It grabs our attention with its genuine materials, shapes and colours and, even if we are sturdy enough to resist temptation, the brand - and the product - will be imprinted in our memory. Beautiful packaging is...

In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance to our daily lives or should be done away with entirely in our quest to save the...

Following the huge demand in contemporary societies to decorate homes in a "green" style, this book offers a more environmentally conscious approach to design and production processes by presenting a wide range of eco furniture products made with natural...

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...

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community,...

Founded in Los Angeles in 2014 by Kyle Ng and Ed Davis, Brain Dead is a collective of artists and designers from around the world. Employing a disruptive, graphic-led approach, the brand takes its cues from post punk, underground comics, skateboarding,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820781Author Cheryl PlatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Braun products have been shown more frequently at exhibitions than those of any other comparable company. Some people find that they reflect basic human values such as authenticity and integrity. For others, they are the very incarnation of German...

Vase design is blooming. As the vase has become one of the most universal home accessories, contemporary designers are pushing the boundaries, making vases that are not only functional, beautiful objects, but also works of art and conceptual statements...

For the first time, materials technology - the single most important agent of change in our designed landscape, from the buildings in which we live and work to the clothes we wear - is analysed to show its transformation, volume by volume, of ten...

This handy, portable version of the authoritative Universal Methods of Design provides the same thorough and critical presentation, updated and expanded to include 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820842Author Katie SwindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

An extensive illustrated survey of one of the most inventive design minds of the twentieth century. Combining whimsy and elegance, Piero Fornasetti transformed everyday objects like cups, scarves, and plates into much sought-after works of art with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262035361Author Roberto VergantiFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail. Authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994627575Author Damien LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Damien LutzPublisher Damien LutzWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040333Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

The way we experience the world is largely through the design of the places, products, communications, services and systems we encounter every day. Design determines how difficult or easy it is to achieve certain things - whether taking a bath, cooking a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040197Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

In this second volume of home-made artifacts, Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov has travelled across Europe to further his collection. The objects he has found are made by everyday people inspired to create something themselves, rather than buying...