Design and llustration Books
Gingko Press, Inc The Art Of Calendar Design
Book SynopsisOver 100 works showing how creative thinkers turn the day-to-day experience of using a calendar into one of excitement and artistic discovery.
£29.32
Gingko Press, Inc Rsvp: Invitations for Gatherings and Special
Book SynopsisA visual collection of more than 100 different invitations, both personal and professional, that span an enormous range of typefaces and styles.
£29.32
Gingko Press, Inc Wheel & Deal: Carts on Wheels
Book SynopsisA photographic study of the mobile establishments roaming the world's roads, from solar-powered ice-cream carts to folding homes to food trucks.
£29.32
Gingko Press, Inc The Modern Wedding
Book SynopsisWedding Graphics covers the design of everything from invitations to floral arrangements to RSVP cards to menus. This is the only guide needed to plan the aesthetic of a whole event.
£33.60
Choi's Gallery Take My Time
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£29.32
Choi's Gallery Versatile Vol. 1: Graphic Design
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£15.75
Choi's Gallery Versatile Vol. 2: Graphic Design
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£16.62
Choi's Gallery Promotion: Choi's Gallery
Book SynopsisExplores the most visually engaging and originally designed promotional materials across the globe.
£36.12
SDC Publications Learning SOLIDWORKS 2017
Book SynopsisThis text provides readers, having no previous CAD experience, with an accessible guide to SOLIDWORKS 2017, with easy to understand, step-by-step tutorials. A simple robot design is used as a project throughout the book. Readers learn to model parts, create assemblies, run simulations and create animations of their robot designs. The text covers parametric modeling fundamentals through use of geometric constraints and relationships, and 3D printing is introduced in the last chapter.
£60.99
SDC Publications SOLIDWORKS 2017 and Engineering Graphics
Book SynopsisSOLIDWORKS 2017 and Engineering Graphics: An Integrated Approach combines an introduction to SOLIDWORKS 2017 with a comprehensive coverage of engineering graphics principles. This text takes a hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to the basic concepts of Engineering Graphics, with in-depth discussions of parametric feature-based CAD techniques. Its sixteen chapters have detailed step-by-step tutorial style lessons, designed to introduce beginning CAD users to the graphics language used in technical industries. The text does not attempt to cover all SOLIDWORKS 2017 features; rather it provides a general introduction to the software. In total this work establishes a strong basis for exploring and growing in the field of Computer Aided Engineering.
£62.99
Museum of Modern Art Automania
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£19.12
David Zwirner Nora Turato: govern me harder
Book SynopsisThe third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture. ---------- “Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.” — Art in America ---------- Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements. Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
£21.25
Atlantic Books Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest
Book SynopsisNature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - which looks to nature to solve pressing problems in engineering and science. From the depths of the oceans to the ice sheets of the Arctic, Amina Khan talks to the researchers at the forefront of this exciting new science, who are designing everything from wind turbines to military camouflage. An entertaining eulogy to the power of evolution, this captivating book is a must read for anyone with an interest in design, nature and technology.Trade ReviewA unique and groundbreaking contribution to innovation through bio-inspired design. One of the most inspiring books of the last decades, which profoundly boosts eco-effective innovations to grasp desperately needed disruptive changes for a planet with 10 billion people. * Professor Michael Braungart, co-author of The Upcycle and Cradle to Cradle *[A] richly detailed, meticulous, well-written book. These well-crafted tales of bio-inspired innovation will entrance general readers and warrant the close attention of scientists and technologists. * Kirkus reviews (starred) *Instead of trying to crudely dominate the world around us, it's nice to learn that more and more smart humans are trying to figure out how we might use the clues from other species to fit in a little more easily on this tired old planet. * Bill McKibben, bestselling author of Eaarth *A skilled journalist and science writer, Khan makes complex topics easy to understand as we travel around the world to meet scientists, engineers, and the plants and animals that are inspiring breakthrough solutions to some of our greatest technological challenges. She doesn't shy away from in-depth explanations of the biology and the engineering behind innovations from material science to nanotechnology to robotics and more, while bringing researchers' stories of discovery to life through her enjoyable, informative writing style. This book is a worthwhile read on many levels. * Jay Harman, author of The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation and CEO of PAX Scientific *As a science writer for the Los Angeles Times, Khan brings to her focus on health and technology a journalist's demands for authenticity and experience as well as a storyteller's desire to enthrall an audience. Hopeful and exciting reading for the future of personal and planetary challenges. * Booklist *
£12.34
Atlantic Books Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest
Book SynopsisHow can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - which looks to nature to solve pressing problems in engineering and science. From the depths of the oceans to the ice sheets of the Arctic, Amina Khan talks to the researchers at the forefront of this exciting new science, who are designing everything from wind turbines to military camouflage. Adapt draws the line from nature to modernity.Khan leaves no stone unturned... Readers will leave this book with a buzzing excitement. - BBC WildlifeTrade ReviewFull of riches * The Sunday Times *One of the most inspiring books of the last decades * Professor Michael Braungart, co-author of The Upcycle and Cradle to Cradle *Khan leaves no stone unturned... Readers will leave this book with a buzzing excitement. * BBC Wildlife *Richly detailed, meticulous, well-written. * Kirkus reviews (starred) *As a science writer for the Los Angeles Times, Khan brings to her focus on health and technology a journalist's demands for authenticity and experience as well as a storyteller's desire to enthrall an audience. Hopeful and exciting reading for the future of personal and planetary challenges. * Booklist *Instead of trying to crudely dominate the world around us, it's nice to learn that more and more smart humans are trying to figure out how we might use the clues from other species to fit in a little more easily on this tired old planet. * Bill McKibben, bestselling author of Eaarth *A skilled journalist and science writer, Khan makes complex topics easy to understand as we travel around the world to meet scientists, engineers, and the plants and animals that are inspiring breakthrough solutions to some of our greatest technological challenges. She doesn't shy away from in-depth explanations of the biology and the engineering behind innovations from material science to nanotechnology to robotics and more, while bringing researchers' stories of discovery to life through her enjoyable, informative writing style. This book is a worthwhile read on many levels. * Jay Harman, author of The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation and CEO of PAX Scientific *
£9.49
Titan Books Ltd Concept Design 2
Book SynopsisContains over 470 works, from finished pieces to support sketches and roughs, with each piece accompanied by text detailing the design ideas and illustration techniques used. This book takes readers on a journey into the minds of talented and successful concept design professionals.
£25.49
V & A Publishing China Design Now
Book SynopsisThis 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 the entrepreneurial spirit of individual designers, to society's aspirations at a moment of tremendous change, to the global ambitions of a nation, the book explores how China's new design culture began, what its driving forces are, and how it is developing.Within the framework of three cities - Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing - from the early 1990s, to the present day and beyond, a broad range of topics is covered, including graphic design, branding, new media such as advertising, television and blogs, the family and the home, fashion, youth cultures, luxury goods and everyday objects, architecture and urban planning, vehicle design and transportation. Published for a headline exhibition at the V&A, and coinciding with the Beijing 2008 Olympics, "China Design Now" is a significant and groundbreaking book that celebrates the emergence of an exciting new player in the field of global design.
£21.24
V & A Publishing Award Winning British Design, 1957-1988
Book SynopsisIn 1957 the UK Design Centre launched the first annual Designs of the Year Awards to identify and promote the very best of British design. For the next 30 years, the awards celebrated designed objects in all forms, from the domestic - cutlery, glassware, textiles and furniture - to the communal - street lights, signage and public seating - and everything in between, including fitted kitchens, schooners, bicycles and electronics. This beautifully designed book introduces and illustrates the quirky breadth of the awards. Iconic objects by Robin and Lucienne Day, Kenneth Grange and David Mellor sit alongside such retro classics as the Barbican basin, the ZX81 personal computer and Globoot wellies.Table of ContentsThe Awards: An Introduction -- The Winning Designs: Year by Year -- The Winning Designs: Highlights - Furniture/Textiles/Wallpapers and Tiles/Lighting - Tableware/Product Design/Toys/Jewellery - Audiovisual and Electronic Equipment/Transport/Public Spaces
£13.49
Middlesex University Press Turn of Century Style - MODA Style Guide
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£9.99
Southbank Publishing Cool Hunting Green: Recycled, Repurposed &
Book SynopsisThe second book in the Cool Hunting series recognising that the hottest design right now are those that promote a cleaner, greener and more beautiful planet.
£12.34
Bristol Books CIC Elegantly Understated: 175 Years Of The Fears
Book SynopsisIllustrated history of the Fears watchmakers, founded in Bristol in 1846. The Fears story is a compendium of the defininghighs, and desperate lows, of our country's horological story which culminates with an exciting resurgence.
£51.00
Cooper-Hewitt Museum Nature: Collaborations in Design
Book Synopsis An exploration of the ways in which designers are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Designers today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. While the modern industrial age gave way to designs that vastly improved human enterprise through technology, there were unintended and destructive consequences for the environment. Humans are intrinsically linked to nature yet our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider the impact of every design decision, from an artifact’s manufacture and use to its obsolescence. Designers are aligning with biologists, engineers, agriculturists, environmentalists and many other disciplines to design a more harmonious and regenerative future. Based on these new partnerships, designers are asking different questions and anticipating future challenges, which not only change the design process, but also what design means. Nature: Collaborations in Design includes over sixty-five international projects from the fields of architecture, product design, landscape design, fashion, interactive and communication design, and material research. More than 300 compelling and exquisite photographs, illustrations and content from data visualizations illustrate seven essays, which explain and explore designers’ strategies around understanding, simulating, salvaging, facilitating, augmenting, remediating and nurturing nature. Four conversations between scientists and designers delve into topics related to synthetic biology, scientific versus design lexicon, and recent shifts in the meaning of nature with a glossary illuminating scientific, technological and theoretical concepts and processes invoked by the designers.
£25.50
Dis Voir Andrea Branzi
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£18.00
Dis Voir Garouste And Bonetti
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£18.00
Dis Voir Borek Sipek
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£18.00
DIS VOIR Starcks Kids
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£18.00
Dis Voir Francois Bauchet
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£18.00
DIS VOIR Pierre Paulin
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£18.00
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Dewey and Design: A Pragmatist Perspective for
Book SynopsisOver the last four decades, John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schön’s theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design. Taking these existing connections as a starting point, Brian Dixon explores how deeper alignments may be drawn between Dewey’s insights and contemporary design research’s concern with practice, meaning and collaboration. Chapter by chapter, a fresh intellectual approach is revealed, one which recognises the transformative power of doing, making and knowing as a force for positive change in the world. We see that, for Dewey, experience comes first. It connects us to surrounding world and the society of which we are part; good things can happen and new realities are possible—we just have to work for them. The implications for design research are vast. We are offered a new way of understanding designerly knowledge production, as well as the methodological implications of adopting Deweyan pragmatism in design research. Taken as a whole, Dewey and Design not only draws out the value of Dewey’s work for design research but also, crucially, offers a clear articulation of the value of design itself.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Design, Pragmatism and Dewey 2. Valuing Experience 3. Knowing in Making 4. Making Things Meaningful 5. Making Things Better 6. Making as Remaking 7. Dewey’s Pragmatism as a Philosophy for Design Research References Index
£104.49
Springer-Verlag GmbH Unfolding Made in Italy 19481962
£116.99
Birkhauser Grundbegriffe der Architektur: Das Vokabular
Book SynopsisArchitecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture.This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum.From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.
£32.78
Birkhauser Manuskript: Essentials für den Alltag von
Book SynopsisMANUscript is a reference book sui generis: a combination of inspiration, guide, and notebook. It explores basic aspects of interior design (ceilings, floors, walls, doors, stairs) and the relevant materials used (rugs, wall paint, glass, wood products, stone, concrete). It also focuses on means of recording and communicating designs: methods of representation, practical tables, rules of thumb, and hands-on suggestions. This updated and expanded edition addresses new and important topics in day-to-day design practice, discusses how to use plants in green facades, space-defining shrubs, the staging potential of light, and also lists key terms in a multilingual table. There are also stimulating statements on design-related issues from prominent architects, interior designers, and designers. An additional special feature of this publication are the pages with space for personal additions, observations, and notes.
£24.70
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Hohe Kunst Der Herrenkleidermacher: Tradition
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£40.50
CENTRAL BOOKS Alles Dirndl
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£22.50
Niggli Verlag Print Design (Bilingual edition): The Latest from
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£25.46
Niggli Verlag Corporate Design: The Latest from Germany
Book SynopsisOdo-Ekke Bingel is a lifecycle and branding consultant. He acquired his marketing expertise with international B2B groups and B2C branded companies. His industry focus is on chemicals, electronics, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Since 2008, he has regularly published State of The Art corporate and print design projects from German-speaking countries.
£28.45
Niggli Verlag The Narrative Power of Illustrations and Drawings
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£31.96
Hatje Cantz Verlag Monobloc German edition
Book SynopsisHAUKE WENDLER (*1967) is a film director, writer and producer. After studying political science and history, he began working as a freelance journalist and reporter for various television stations before focusing mainly on his work as a filmmaker.
£22.50
Hatje Cantz dieDASdocs Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisdieDASDesign Akademie SaaleckA historic site with a new purpose dieDASdocs: Monumental Affairs_Living with Contested Spaces is the first publication issued by the dieDAS Design Akademie Saaleck. This inaugural volume of a new series presents the results of the 2023 dieDAS fellowship cycle under the artistic direction of acclaimed American architect Germane Barnes, as well as the subsequent dieDAS walk + talk summit, which together delved deep into the complex history of monuments and their entwinement with urgent global issues such as racism, nationalism, social inequity, and climate injustice. In addition, the publication tells the story of dieDASDesign Akademie Saaleck to date through essays, interviews and statements that outline the vision and innovative spirit of the academy and introduces the many designers, architects, critics, activists and others who have played and continue to play a role in its development.
£22.40
Avedition Apple Design: Eine Analyse
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£25.20
Lurzer GmbH Lurzer's Archive Special 200 Best Illustrators
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£18.75
Lurzer GmbH Lurzer's Archive Special Advertising Photography:
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£23.75
Spector Books Desk in Exile: A Bauhaus Object Traversing
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£12.58
£12.58
Skira The Creative Austerity: In Today's Advertising
Book SynopsisA collection of ads selected by the Art Directors Club Italia. Swift by nature and by vocation, advertising provides clues on the mood of the time and place it appears in. So if we are bang in the middle of epoch-making changes, advertising becomes an effective mobile observatory, a radar that can tell us where we are, where we are going and what lies ahead. Creative Austerity investigates the relationships between economic austerity and the media, arts, fashion, technology, music, environment, social responsibility and the future.
£44.00
Mondadori Electa Asian Bohemian Chic
Book SynopsisBorn in Rotterdam and educated in Europe, Ghea is one of Indonesia s most famous fashion designers, renowned for having promoted a renaissance in Indonesia s ethnic textile tradition. After graduating from a fashion college in London, she returned to her country and established her fashion-design studio in 1980, and she has since opened several ateliers and boutiques in Jakarta. Her mission: to develop, celebrate, and promote her country s fashion heritage. Her textiles make strong use of folklore, including the Jumputan tie-dyed fabrics (the Pelangi Palembang) that have become her hallmark. A role model for women, entrepreneurs, designers, and visionary people, Ghea went international early in her career. Since her very first forays into fashion, Ghea has been instrumental in establishing the association of fashion designers (IPMI) in her country for the professionalization of fashion design. Ghea has given Indonesian fashion worldwide attention, showcasing her collections in Paris, Cannes, Marrakech, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Milan. Her shows have been attended by international celebrities, and she has often been featured in major fashion magazines, like Harper s Bazaar and Prestige Indonesia. This is an inspirational book for many young designers who need to acquire the know-how to sustain their own creative practice.
£48.00
Mondadori Electa Nika Zupanc: Breaking the Rules
Book SynopsisProduct and interior designer Nika Zupanc became a globally recognised name with the launch of the Lolita lamp. Nika Zupanc works as an independent designer who is constantly involved in fresh projects that grow out of distinctive interpretations of modern culture, contemporary design, and the available technological options. Born in Slovenia, the top designer pours poetic disruption into the world of contemporary design. Her products and interior design projects challenge the rational, traditional, sober, and utilitarian by giving voice to the spontaneous, eclectic, and intimate. Her style has been often described as punk elegance (Elle USA) and techno chic (BusinessWeek) and Nika Zupanc has been crowned as a real star by The Wall Street Journal.
£32.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Make Design Matter
Book SynopsisMake Design Matter is an accessible book about a complex subject. It proposes strategic design guidelines based on holistic concepts. The guidelines facilitate convergence across different fields, inspiring designers and lay persons, companies and institutions, and teachers and students of design to envision and apply more meaningful solutions. This book will help you to design better… and to make design matter!
£12.34
BIS Publishers B.V. Design Transitions: Inspiring Stories. Global
Book SynopsisDiscover where design practice is today - and where it will take us in the future. Design Transitions presents 42 unique and insightful stories of how design is changing around the world. Twelve countries are represented from the perspectives of three different communities: design agencies, organizations embedding design; and design academics. Our journey has taken us across the globe in search of the most innovative design practitioners, and their answers to the question How are design practices changing? From small practices to vast corporations, the renowned to the lesser known: these are the stories of people working at the fringes of the traditional disciplines of design. They have opened up their design worlds to reveal the methods, tools and thinking behind their inspirational work. Some of the organizations and individuals featured includes: Droog, BERG, Fjord, thinkpublic, FutureGov, Hakuhodo Innovation Lab, DesignThinkers Group, INSITUM, Optimal Usability, frog Asia, Ziba, Banny Banerjee, Ezio Manzini, Carlos Teixeira and Adam Greenfield. Design Transitions is divided into three sections: Section I: Changing Practices features 25 stories from design practices in a range of disciplines. Section II: New Territories features five organizations introducing and embedding design approaches into their core practice and operations. Section III: Viewpoints features 12 interviews with leading design academics, offering additional insights and a critical perspective on the key themes that have emerged from our case studies and interviews.
£25.49
