Design and llustration Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Corporate Identity Design
Book SynopsisIn a market cluttered with big and small companies competing for the consumer's attention, public image becomes more critical than ever to the success of any business. Veronica Napoles's Corporate Identity Design provides a practical tool for designing and implementing a successful, comprehensive corporate identity program.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Corporate Identity. Establishing the Need for a Corporate Identity Program. Where to Begin. Types of Symbols and Approaches. Methodology--Phase I. Design Exploration--Phase II. Design Refinement--Phase III. Implementation--Phase IV. What is in a Name? Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£33.24
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Type Specimen Book 544 Different Typefaces
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£49.24
John Wiley & Sons Inc Design Paradigms A Source for Creative
Book SynopsisA versatile toolbox of ideas for creative design solutions.Table of ContentsSimple Shapes. Enclosure. Bending and Flexing. Bigger and Smaller. Binary Object Relations. Joining. Attaching. Passages. Multiple Object Relations. Objects Within Objects. Multi-Function Objects. Transcending the Visible. Putting Design Paradigms to Work. Notes. References. Figure Credits. Index.
£59.36
John Wiley & Sons Inc Casting for Big Ideas A New Manifesto for Agency
Book SynopsisUsing the metaphor of fly fishing to stress the patient, long-term approach, Andrew Jaffe, industry veteran and Director of the Clio Awards, details important lessons on the management and growth of advertising agencies.Trade Review“…This is a very readable overview for those wanting a broader appreciation of the business reality…” (Marketing, 13 November 2003)Table of ContentsForeword by Neil French, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising vii Introduction: The Call for a New, Smarter Agency Architecture 1 Part 1 Agency Architecture Chapter 1 Agency Architecture: Getting It Right from the Beginning 15 Chapter 2 The Pitch: Matching the Hatch and Deciding What Would Make the Client Bite Down on Your Lure 41 Chapter 3 Creative Department: How Long Can It Survive as Idea Central? 67 Chapter 4 Media Department: Can It Replace Creative as the Primary Source for Brand-Building Ideas? 83 Chapter 5 The Internet and the Agency 103 Chapter 6 Prioritizing Strategic Planning 119 Part 2 Management Lessons Chapter 7 Growing Your Agency 137 Chapter 8 Smart Ownership Principles 155 Chapter 9 Integrating and Refocusing the Agency Network 167 Chapter 10 The Future 187 Appendix A Advertising’s Invisible Values 205 Appendix B A Big Future for Big ideas 215 Appendix C The IDEO Difference 225 Notes 231 Acknowledgments 237 Index 239
£28.79
John Wiley & Sons Inc Community Participation Methods in Design and
Book SynopsisThe only how-to guide to community design written from the design professional''s perspective. In this groundbreaking guide to the increasingly important discipline of community design, a leading international expert draws upon his own experiences and those of colleagues around the world to provide proven tools and techniques for bringing community members into the design process successfully and productively. The first and only how-to guide on community design developed for design professionals, Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning features: * Fifteen case studies chronicling community design projects around the world * Coverage of educational facilities, housing, and urban and rural environments * Design Games-a proven, culture-neutral approach to educating participants in their design options and the consequences of their choices * Proven techniques for fostering community participation in the design process * Checklists, worksheets, questioTrade Review"This how-to-guidebook is a great reference tool to understand principles and methods of community design." (Critic, June 2002)Table of ContentsParticipation Purposes. Participation Methods. Participation in Educational Facilities. Participation in Housing. Participation in Urban and Rural Environments. Bibliography. Additional Readings. Index.
£72.86
John Wiley & Sons Inc Design for Communication
Book SynopsisComplete coverage of basic design principles illustrated by student examples Design for Communication offers a unique approach to mastering the basic design principles, conceptual problem-solving methods, and critical-thinking skills that distinguish graphic designers from desktop technicians.Table of ContentsIntroduction 15 What Is Graphic Design? 15 What Do Graphic Designers Do? 16 I Want to Be a Graphic Designer—Where Do I Begin? 16 The Design Process 17 Why Bother with Such a Long Process When I Just Like to Make Things? 20 Why Should I Do These Assignments? 20 Section 1: The Elements and Principles of Design 23 Star Symbol/Susan Merritt, San Diego State University, San Diego 26 Object Semantics/Kermit Bailey, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 34 Symbol Design/Lisa Fontaine, Iowa State University, Ames 38 Lettermark/Susan Merritt, San Diego State University, San Diego 43 Vinyletteror/Kenneth Fitzgerald, Old Dominion University, Norfolk 49 Letterform as Shape/Jan Conradi, State University of New York at Fredonia 53 Concert Poster/Arnold Holland, California State University, Fullerton 58 Design History Chair/Hank Richardson, Portfolio Center, Atlanta 63 Section 2: Typography as Image 67 Shaping Words/Richard Ybarra, Art Institute of California, San Diego 68 Newspaper Stories—A Typographic Workshop/Jürgen Hefele, Fachhochschule Augsburg, Germany 70 Typographic Self-Portrait/Esen Karol, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey 76 Typographic Self-Portrait/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 79 Typeface Poster/Hyun Mee Kim, Samsung Art and Design Institute, Seoul, Korea 83 Directions Poster/Frank Baseman, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia 86 Poetry in Motion/Elizabeth Resnick, Glenn Berger, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 91 Section 3: Creative Wordplay 97 Descriptive Pairs/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 99 Letters as Image/Hyun Mee Kim, Samsung Art and Design Institute, Seoul 102 Concrete Poetry/Kenneth Fitzgerald, Old Dominion University, Norfolk 105 Arthur Murray Dance Advertisement/Frank Baseman, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia 109 CD Cover: Typographic Music/Heather Corcoran, Washington University, St. Louis 114 Section 4: Word and Image 121 Word and Image/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 123 Book Cover Design: The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 127 Book Cover Design: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 131 Postage Stamp Design: A Celebration of Cultural Diversity in America/Elizabeth Resnick, Glenn Berger, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 135 Postage Stamp Design: A Celebration of American Primary Education: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, and Science/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 140 Stamp Design/Michael Burke, Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 145 Sculpture Poster/Tom Briggs, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 148 Gardening Poster/Karen Berntsen, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 151 The Kitchen of Meaning Exhibition Poster/Kermit Bailey, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 154 Section 5: Grid and Visual Hierarchy 159 Typographic History Spread/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 160 Two-Sided Typeface Poster/Judith Aronson, Simmons College, Boston 165 Three Type Specimens/Carol Sogard, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 174 Visual Poetry Calendar/Peggy Re, Beth Hay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 178 The Science Lecture Series Posters/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 187 Book: Lewis and Clark/Heather Corcoran, Washington University, St. Louis 191 Journey Journal/Gülizar Çepoğlu, London College of Printing, London 195 Section 6: Visual Advocacy 201 The Literacy Poster: Learn to Read/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 203 Human Rights Poster/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 208 Designing Dissent: Advocacy Poster Series/Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 212 Happy Deutschland/Jürgen Hefele, Fachhochschule, Augsburg, Germany 218 Three-dimensional Direct Response (Mail) Solicitation/Elizabeth Resnick, Glenn Berger, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 221 Tolerance Bus Shelter Poster/Frank Baseman, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia 228 Bibliography 235 Instructor Contact Information 247 Index 249
£52.16
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Practical Guide to Information Design
Book SynopsisIn a user-friendly design, Practical Guide to Information Design provides a detailed, behind-the-scenes view of the development process for both print and digital media, with complete descriptions and comparisons of various formats.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. SECTION I: AUDIENCE. Identifying the Audience. Chapter 1. How humans (almost) universally Perceive. Chapter 2. Usability and how to achieve it. SECTION II: WORD DESIGN. How to Design Understandably. Chapter 3. How to work with type and layout. Chapter 4. How to write clearly. Chapter 5. How to use color meaningfully. SECTION III: PICTURE DESIGN. How to Design Meaningful Graphics. Chapter 6. How to make pictures that inform. Chapter 7. Design, label, and caption diagrams clearly. Chapter 8. Clear forms improve users' experience. Chapter 9. How to help people find their way clearly. Bibliography/resources. Index. About the author.
£30.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Design Agenda
Book SynopsisUK Design lies between the worlds of culture and commerce, betweenpassion and profit. Design is indeed a passion for things, offeringmethods that enable them to come into being. It follows that designshould also aspire to a passion for the people who use thesethings, for their quality of life, their aspirations: a passion forbetterment. The management of design is about fostering thatpassion and linking it to the fulfilment of corporate goals andprofitability. The Design Agenda explains why it is necessary andhow it can be done. This clearly written book: * draws on the best methods to provide practical guidance oneffective design management * contains a unique resource guide to enable further study andresearch * contains contemporary examples to illustrate the value of wellmanaged design In combining practical advice with a theoretical overview the bookrepresents an ideal introductory text for a range of designstudents and an excellent source of information tTable of ContentsWhat Is Design? The Value of Design. Corporate Design Strategies. Design and the Organisation. Design Audits. Design Management--Setting the Agenda. Resource Guide. Index.
£64.60
John Wiley & Sons Inc Finite Element Approximation for Optimal Shape
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the formulation, approximation and numerical solution of optimal shape design problems: from the continuous model through its discretization and approximation results, to sensitivity analysis and numerical realization. Shape optimization of structures is addressed in the first part, using variational inequalities of elliptic type. New results, such as contact shape optimization for bodies made of non-linear material, sensitivity analysis based on isoparametric technique, and analysis of cost functionals related to contact stress distribution are included. The second part presents new concepts of shape optimization based on a fictitious domain approach. Finally, the application of the shape optimization methodology in the material design is discussed. This second edition is a fully revised and up-dated version of Finite Element Method for Optimal Shape Design. Numerous numerical examples illustrate the theoretical results, and industrial applications are given.Table of ContentsPreliminaries. Abstract Setting of the Optimal Shape Design Problem and ItsApproximation. Optimal Shape Design of Systems Governed by a Unilateral BoundaryValue State Problem the Scalar Case. Approximation of the Optimal Shape Design Problems by FiniteElements the Scalar Case. Numerical Realization of Optimal Shape Design Problems Associatedwith a Unilateral Boundary Value Problem the Scalar Case. Shape optimization in Unilateral Boundary Value Problems with a"Flux" Cost Functional. Optimal Shape Design Contact Problems the Elastic Case. Shape Optimization of Materially Non-linear Bodies inContact. Shape Optimization in Problems with Inner Obstacles. Optimum Composite Material Design. Topology Optimization in Unilateral Problems. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
£401.36
University of California Press In the Vanguard
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Churning out “great art” was not, finally, the school’s main contribution. What was created during those short, sweet summers had more to do with the very conditions of creativity. It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable." * The Wall Street Journal *"The authors, who are both curators of American art, deliver the only complete retrospective of Haystack. No other scholarly literature exists on Haystack’s foundational years or on the connection of the artists that were essential to the early leadership of the school. This publication is recommended for all academic art libraries and essential for any school with a decorative arts or a master of arts program." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD Director’s Foreword MARK H. C. BESSIRE Introduction: The Generosity of an Idea PAUL SACARIDIZ Prologue: Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis and Priscilla Merritt in Flint, 1946–51 STEFFI IBIS DUARTE The Best Ideals of Socially Useful Living: Haystack, 1950–60 M. RACHAEL ARAUZ Inscriptions in History: Haystack, 1961–69 DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD Plates Chronology M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD WITH SHEA SPILLER Haystack Instructors, 1951–69 Checklist Sources and Notes Index Lender List Photography Credits
£39.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fashion Design and Product Development
Book SynopsisSets out to explain fashion design and product development as an integrated process, the function of which is to market a continuous stream of garments at a profit. It explores materials, manufacture, costs, quality and the organization of the design and development process.Table of ContentsPreface. The Process and Structure of the Industry. Design and Innovation. Management of the Process of Design and Product Development. QualityCcontrol. Materials. Manufacture. Costs and Profits. Costs of product development. Operations management. Further Reading. Index.
£31.34
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introduction to Clothing Production Management
Book SynopsisThis introductory textbook for supervisors and students of clothing and fashion sets out the fundamentals of work study, effective supervision, training, balancing, layouts, fault prevention and other basic information needed by those working in the clothing manufacturing industry. This second edition has been updated to incorprate the changes that have occurred since the first edition was published seven years ago. Greater emphasis has been placed on production planning and control, and total quality management, both important factors for ensuring a profitable operation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The sewing room supervisor; How output is lost; Basic Method Study; Basic work measurement; Balancing; Balancing exercises; Production planning and control; Total quality control; Quality from design to despatch; Production and people; Training; Charting and layouts
£33.24
Princeton University Press Things Fall Together
Book Synopsis"A short, provocative manifesto for the programmable materials revolution from the visionary founder of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab"--Trade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Engineering and Technology, Association of American Publishers""Books like Things Fall Together should be required reading for students and veteran designers alike. It’s time for these ideas about material intelligence to leave the lab; to commingle among designers, architects, and engineers; and to start finding their way into reality. Not just as conceptual explorations, but as part of the fabric of our everyday lives."---Luke T. Baker, Metropolis"Things Fall Together upends commonly held presumptions about how the constructed world operates. . . . We need just this kind of bold, cross-disciplinary thinking to unlock the full potential of designed materials—and to realize a future in which materiality is considered at every stage and scale of the design process."---Blaine Brownell, Architect"[Things Fall Together] matter-of-factly, without exaggeration or hype, demonstrates that the seemingly wild idea of a biology-like technology is not impossible. . . . Tibbits has done a remarkable service in packing this gigantic vision into a short, readable book. 'Look what is coming!' he says. And we should look."---Kevin Kelly, Reason"A subtle yet eye-catching book. . . . Things Fall Together provides an insider’s perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead."---Jenna Collignon, Western Exteriors Magazine"Tibbits' book is a compact, highly readable explanation of the work carried out at the Self-Assembly Lab and some of the other like-minded labs and institutions around the world."---John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
£18.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Clothing A Global History
Book SynopsisBroad and engaging overview suitable for undergraduates in history, anthropology, cultural studies and fashion studies, as well as the general reader. Explains why we wear what we do, why most people in the world now dress very similarly and why those who resist Western dress do so.Trade Review"A short book, and an easy read that adds a fresh perspective to studies of global history, colonialism, economic development, military history, and the history of costume." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "No longer viewed as inconsequential, clothing has much to tell historians. Clothing fits very neatly within this new historiography." Journal of Social History "A model work of synthesis - lucid, lively, accessible, globally informed, stuffed with rich and fascinating examples, making good use of theory and comparison, and approaching its topic from economic, political, social and cultural points of view." Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "Robert Ross admirably weaves the history of dress into the broader contours of modernization and the rise and fall of western imperialism. Clothing offers the reader insights into the power of bodily adornment, both as a tool of western hegemony, and as a potential symbolic medium for nationalist aspirations of the colonized." John Mackey, Birmingham UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. The Rules of Dress. 3. Redressing the Old World. 4. First Colonialisms. 5. The Production, care and distribution of clothing. 6. The Export of Europe. 7. Reclothed in Rightful Minds: Christian missions and clothing. 8. Re-forming the body: reforming the mind. 9. The Clothing of Colonial Nationalism. 10. The Emancipation of Dress. 11. Engendered Acceptance and Rejection. 12. Conclusion
£49.50
Cornell University Press Swedish Design
Book SynopsisThis book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish...Trade ReviewFor anyone who has taught the history of 20th-century design and had a student ask, 'How can a chair be political?' this book will help answer that question. It is not a typical design history text—there are no large color images of landmark chairs or textiles and no evolutionary account of historically significant designers. Instead, Murphy (anthropology, UC Irvine) draws out how ordinary objects within the built environment embody Sweden's social democratic ideology: that is, the way Swedes use design to structure the everyday world they live and move about in. * CHOICE *Swedish Design: An Ethnography will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, design studies, and the history of design as well as scholars engaged in design research. Murphy provides the reader with an approach to carrying out anthropology of design, outlining thematic areas for consideration; insodoing, heoffers an invaluable resource for researchers and students with interests in design and its wider social political relations, interaction analysis, and anthropological approaches to understanding the relation between the political, design processes and practices. * H-Net *Keith M. Murphy is an anthropology professor at the University of California, Irvine, and if his field seems far removed from Scandinavian furniture, he apporaches the subject in relation to Swedish social welfare programs and democratic socialist ideals. The lamps and tables furnishing our homes and owrkplaces, in other words, are a 'means for managing well-being in everyday life.' * Shepherd Express *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Swedish Design1. The Diagram of Swedish Design2. Building the Beautiful Home3. In the Design World4. In the Studio5. Displays of ForceConclusion: Designing a Social CosmologyNotes References Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Swedish Design An Ethnography
Book SynopsisThis book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish...Trade ReviewFor anyone who has taught the history of 20th-century design and had a student ask, 'How can a chair be political?' this book will help answer that question. It is not a typical design history text—there are no large color images of landmark chairs or textiles and no evolutionary account of historically significant designers. Instead, Murphy (anthropology, UC Irvine) draws out how ordinary objects within the built environment embody Sweden's social democratic ideology: that is, the way Swedes use design to structure the everyday world they live and move about in. * CHOICE *Swedish Design: An Ethnography will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, design studies, and the history of design as well as scholars engaged in design research. Murphy provides the reader with an approach to carrying out anthropology of design, outlining thematic areas for consideration; insodoing, heoffers an invaluable resource for researchers and students with interests in design and its wider social political relations, interaction analysis, and anthropological approaches to understanding the relation between the political, design processes and practices. * H-Net *Keith M. Murphy is an anthropology professor at the University of California, Irvine, and if his field seems far removed from Scandinavian furniture, he apporaches the subject in relation to Swedish social welfare programs and democratic socialist ideals. The lamps and tables furnishing our homes and owrkplaces, in other words, are a 'means for managing well-being in everyday life.' * Shepherd Express *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Swedish Design1. The Diagram of Swedish Design2. Building the Beautiful Home3. In the Design World4. In the Studio5. Displays of ForceConclusion: Designing a Social CosmologyNotes References Index
£24.69
University of Minnesota Press Impossible Heights Skyscrapers Flight and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Impossible Heights is an original account of the American fascination with the skyscraper and the airplane and the enthusiasm for the new perspective on high from which people surveyed the city and landscape. Adnan Morshed examines the intersections between intellectual biography, visuality, and cultural history and brings together the ‘art of architecture’ with mass culture and spectatorship. In doing so, he illuminates ‘the aesthetics of ascension’ as a widely shared cultural phenomenon that characterized the interwar period.” —Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York"A valuable contribution to the tradition of scholarship on aerial perspective and the history of visuality by focusing upon the interwar period and the American fascination with aviation and skyscrapers."—CHOICE"Impossible Heights. . . offers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight."—Science Fiction Studies"Impossible Heights is driven by extensive archival research presented in clear, accessible prose capable of engaging architectural historians as well as readers intrigued by the twentieth century’s unquenchable reach for the skies. In a fascinating read that is enhanced with over a hundred images, Morshed’s Impossible Heights brings to life this period of spectacular vision for the American metropolis."—Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension1. Hugh Ferriss and the “Harmonious Development of Man”2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His “Land to Sky, Outward Progression”3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes’s FuturamaEpilogue: The God’s-Eye VisionNotesIndex
£79.05
University of Minnesota Press Impossible Heights
Book SynopsisThe advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and 30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populisTrade Review“Impossible Heights is an original account of the American fascination with the skyscraper and the airplane and the enthusiasm for the new perspective on high from which people surveyed the city and landscape. Adnan Morshed examines the intersections between intellectual biography, visuality, and cultural history and brings together the ‘art of architecture’ with mass culture and spectatorship. In doing so, he illuminates ‘the aesthetics of ascension’ as a widely shared cultural phenomenon that characterized the interwar period.” —Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York"A valuable contribution to the tradition of scholarship on aerial perspective and the history of visuality by focusing upon the interwar period and the American fascination with aviation and skyscrapers."—CHOICE"Impossible Heights. . . offers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight."—Science Fiction Studies"Impossible Heights is driven by extensive archival research presented in clear, accessible prose capable of engaging architectural historians as well as readers intrigued by the twentieth century’s unquenchable reach for the skies. In a fascinating read that is enhanced with over a hundred images, Morshed’s Impossible Heights brings to life this period of spectacular vision for the American metropolis."—Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension1. Hugh Ferriss and the “Harmonious Development of Man”2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His “Land to Sky, Outward Progression”3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes’s FuturamaEpilogue: The God’s-Eye VisionNotesIndex
£26.99
University of Minnesota Press Things Worth Keeping
Book SynopsisA timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine HarTrade Review"For too long, the contemporary individual’s relationship with ordinary things has been prematurely chastised as commodity fetishism or blindly embraced as conspicuous consumption. Christine Harold offers a welcome alternative, in which objects are cast in complex, subtle roles amid a broader human drama."—Ian Bogost, author of How to Talk about Videogames"With thrift stores overflowing with ‘fast fashion,’ China hitting its limit for outsourced recycling, and even decluttering queens suddenly hawking crystals, it’s clear that Westerners buy too much shit. But permit yourself one more acquisition: Christine Harold’s beautiful new book, which explores how practices ranging from hacking and crafting to artisanship and storytelling can help us forge more sustained and, thus, sustainable relationships with the objects in our lives."—Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age"Things Worth Keeping pushes audiences to be shaped by their emotional reactions to the environmental impact of their consumption. Harold suggests that the days of trying to make environmental arguments via statistics—and “finger wagging” or “shaming”—ought to give way to emotional catharsis via art."—Women’s Review of Books"Harold offers the book as part of an existing conversation that will continue in a variety of contexts, including the domains of design practice and vernacular experience, not to mention the university classroom."—Material Culture"What to get and how to get it, how to take care of stuff, and what to get rid of and how—these are vexing everyday matters, with vast if often unseen consequences. Christine Harold’s Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World takes up these issues by analyzing big box stores and offbeat brands, mainstream trends and rogue artworks, political economic theory and journalistic hot takes."—ISLETable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Turning toward Things: Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency1. The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of: Attaching to Inanimate Objects2. On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design Democracy3. Some Assembly Required: IKEA, Project Value, and What Happens When Things Come Apart4. The Value of Story: Extending the Value of Objects5. The Handmade Tale: Crafting, Making, and the Lure of the ArtisanalConclusion: Expanding and Intensifying the Value(s) of ObjectsNotesIndex
£70.55
University of Minnesota Press Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For too long, the contemporary individual’s relationship with ordinary things has been prematurely chastised as commodity fetishism or blindly embraced as conspicuous consumption. Christine Harold offers a welcome alternative, in which objects are cast in complex, subtle roles amid a broader human drama."—Ian Bogost, author of How to Talk about Videogames"With thrift stores overflowing with ‘fast fashion,’ China hitting its limit for outsourced recycling, and even decluttering queens suddenly hawking crystals, it’s clear that Westerners buy too much shit. But permit yourself one more acquisition: Christine Harold’s beautiful new book, which explores how practices ranging from hacking and crafting to artisanship and storytelling can help us forge more sustained and, thus, sustainable relationships with the objects in our lives."—Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age"Things Worth Keeping pushes audiences to be shaped by their emotional reactions to the environmental impact of their consumption. Harold suggests that the days of trying to make environmental arguments via statistics—and “finger wagging” or “shaming”—ought to give way to emotional catharsis via art."—Women’s Review of Books"Harold offers the book as part of an existing conversation that will continue in a variety of contexts, including the domains of design practice and vernacular experience, not to mention the university classroom."—Material Culture"What to get and how to get it, how to take care of stuff, and what to get rid of and how—these are vexing everyday matters, with vast if often unseen consequences. Christine Harold’s Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World takes up these issues by analyzing big box stores and offbeat brands, mainstream trends and rogue artworks, political economic theory and journalistic hot takes."—ISLETable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Turning toward Things: Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency1. The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of: Attaching to Inanimate Objects2. On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design Democracy3. Some Assembly Required: IKEA, Project Value, and What Happens When Things Come Apart4. The Value of Story: Extending the Value of Objects5. The Handmade Tale: Crafting, Making, and the Lure of the ArtisanalConclusion: Expanding and Intensifying the Value(s) of ObjectsNotesIndex
£18.99
University of Minnesota Press Extravagances Habits of Being 4
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsClothing, Dress, Fashion: An ArcadeIntroduction: Worn Out of BoundsPaula Rabinowitz1. When Women Speak, Their Clothes TalkMariapia Bobbioni2. An Accessory Is a Gesture: A Conversation with Guillermo MariottoCristina Giorcelli3. Wearing a CrownPaola Colaiacomo4. Earrings in American Literature: A ShowcaseCristina Giorcelli5. Buttons, Buttons, and More Buttons!Margherita di Fazio6. Curse of the Corsage: Femmes Fatales and the Can-Do GirlCharlotte Nekola7. Schiaparelli’s Convulsive GlovesVictoria R. Pass8. Frock and Bracelet in OmerosMaria Anita Stefanelli9. Kahlo and O’Keeffe: Portrait of the Artist as Fashion IconPaula Rabinowitz10. StraysTarrah Krajnak11. The Erotic Play of the Veil: Tapadas in LimaCamilla Cattarulla12. Our People Clad in the Bloody Livery: Fashion and Color in Argentina’s Civil WarAmanda Salvioni13. To Fashion the Wonderful Garment: W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece andNella Larsen’s QuicksandMaria Giulia Fabi14. Shmata Mash-up: A Jewette for Two VoicesMaria Damon and Adeena Karasick15. Subtle and Spectacular: Dressing in Kalabari StyleJoanne B. EicherCoda: Fashion’s Strategies of Communication and SustainabilityCristina GiorcelliContributors
£19.79
Ohio University Press The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His
Book SynopsisBefore he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof.Trade Review“This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richard Doyle, the ‘precocious boy’ who would become famous for his Punch drawings […] Their reproduction here in all their elusive detail, scrupulously annotated by the editor, is both pleasurable and educative.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Across more than 300 pages of archival material, analysis, and annotation, Scott takes us back to early 1840s England via the prose and art of Doyle himself and the incisive scholarship of a standout professor of English literature and Victorian culture. The result is a triumph for the editor and his publishers and a boon for students of Victorian Studies. Great service has thus been done to a still under-appreciated artist, his world, and the remarkable dynasty of illustrators, cartoonists, satirists, and scholars, to which he belonged.…The volume helps to reaffirm what David Kunzle suggested over two decades ago (in The History of the Comic Strip, Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century): that the modern comic strip and the graphic novel originate from the unpublished work of artists like Doyle, who experimented with text and image in new and innovative ways.” * Review 19 *“In recovering the fascinating illustrated letters that Richard Doyle wrote to his father leading up to the work with Punch, Grant Scott gives us access to both the visual virtuosity and the psychological depth of one of the most brilliant and inventive of Victorian graphic artists.”“Scott’s collection of illustrated letters from the hand of Richard Doyle, the fascinating but neglected contributor to Punch magazine, are a goldmine. Accompanied by an excellent editorial apparatus, the letters provide a revealing glimpse into the lives of a Victorian family steeped in the arts in the early 1840s.”
£56.10
Reaktion Books Design for Society
Book SynopsisAlthough design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. This book analyses design's role and status, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.Trade Review'Whiteley's look at design in the 1990s is an account of how the design industry, caught up in its own self-image for the past decade, needs to reinvent itself and focus again on its social role. This means taking greater account of green and feminist issues and creating a new type of socially responsible design. Surely a thesis of relevance to architects.' - RIBA Journal 'His green and feminist critiques ... blow a welcome breath of fresh air into the design profession.' - The Ecologist 'Whiteley's Design for Society is an important and well-reasoned explanation where design stands in relation to environment and ecology in the nineties. It will refocus the discussion from style to need and human issues. It should help to make the shift to more human and spiritual concerns visible to consumers, students and professionals in design.' - Victor Papanek, author of Design for the Real World
£17.60
John Wiley & Sons Inc Designing Information
Book SynopsisThe book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation and those who don t. Many blurbs such as this are written without a thorough reading of the book. Not so in this case. I read it and love it.Table of Contents10 Introduction 12 1 Aspects of Information Design The nature of information 14 The nature of information 16 Self-referential vs. functional 18 When it doesn't work 20 Non-wayfinding cartography 22 Learning from Minard 24 Simple and complex 26 Worlds in collision 28 Dispersed vs. layered 30 Anatomy and function 32 Metaphor and simile 34 Emotional power 36 Is it really urgent? 38 The branding fallacy 40 2 Qualitative Issues Perceptions, conventions, proximity 42 Lines 44 Unintended consequences of shape 46 (Mis)connotations of form 48 The middle value principle 50 Connotations of color 52 Color constraints 54 Color and monochrome 56 From color to grayscale 58 Generations of labeling 60 Connections among people 62 Connections in products 64 Consistent and mnemonic notation 66 It's about time 68 Point of view 70 Navigation: page and screen 74 Interpretation 76 3 Quantitative Issues Dimensionality, comparisons, numbers, scale 78 Information overload 80 Too much information 82 Too many numbers 84 Dimensional comparison 86 The pyramid paradox 88 How big? 90 Substitution 92 Numerical integrity 94 Meaningful numbers 96 Perils of geography 98 Escaping geography 102 Data and form 100 Per capita 102 Data and form 104 Apples to apples: data scale consistency 106 Relative and absolute: ratios of change 108 Multi-axiality 110 Measurement and proportion 112 4 Structure, Organization, Type Hierarchy and visual grammar 114 The grid 116 Organizing response 118 (Dis)organization and proximity 120 Rational hierarchies 122 An intelligible ballot 124 Understanding audience needs 126 Staging information 128 Synecdoche 130 Is a picture worth 1,000 words? 132 Visualizing regulations 134 Focus and distraction 136 Language and grammar 138 Sans serif 140 Serif 142 Font efficiency 144 Typographic differentiation 146 Size matters (weight, too) 148 Legibility 150 Expressive typography 152 5 Finding Your Way? Movement, orientation, situational geography 154 What’s up? Heads up 156 Signs and arrows 158 Scale and adjacency 160 A movement network genealogy 162 Map or diagram? 164 Guiding the traveler, then and now 166 Information release sequence 170 Isochronics 1 172 Analogies in painting and sculpture 174 The road is really straight 176 Transitions and familiarity 178 Service, naming and addressing 180 (Ir)rational innovation 182 Perils of alphabetization 184 The view from below—or above 186 Urban open space 188 6 Documents Stories, inventories, notes 190 Credits 214 Inventory: Paris 216 Inventory: Italy 218 Bibliography 221 Gratitude 222 Index 224 About the author
£53.15
John Wiley & Sons Inc Designing B2B Brands
Book SynopsisAs an in-depth explanation of one organisation's brand strategy, this guide is both fascinating and full of useful insights. The CA magazine (UK) Get tactical insight from the top business-to-business branding expertsand gain a global presence This comprehensive manual lays out the steps necessary for creating an iconic global identity. It uses the lessons and inside knowledge of Deloitte, the world''s largest professional services organization, to help other business-to-business operations deliver a high-impact, value-added brand experience. This book will illustrate all the components of an integrated brand identity system, and how they can be crafted and implemented for optimal effect. Here, the speculative is replaced by the proven: a seamless framework for global brand success, created and followed by an organization renowned for its consulting and advisory services. Features essential up-to-date strategies for keeping your brand Table of ContentsSection 1 Defining it Brand overview What is branding? 2 What is brand identity? 6 B2C versus B2B branding 10 The "brandscape" 14 Brand strategy 16 Brand architecture 20 Brand purpose 24 Brand positioning 26 Brand experience 30 Brand engagement 34 Brand measurement 38 Section 2 Building it Brand elements Name 44 Tagline 48 Tone of voice 52 Logo 56 Color 60 Typography 64 Imagery 68 Composition 72 Iconography 76 Information graphics 80 Sound 84 Section 3 Using it Brand applications Business materials 90 Presentations 94 Brochureware 98 Magazines and newspapers 102 Reviews and reports 106 Proposals 110 Packaging 114 One-time materials 118 Advertising 122 Sponsorships 128 Electronic communications 132 Websites 136 Mobile apps 140 Social media 146 Audiovisuals 150 Office environments 154 Events and exhibitions 164 Merchandise 168 Section 4 Defending it From alliance to compliance Brand asset management 174 Brand compliance 178 Brand champions 182 Designers and networks 186 Rollout strategies 190 Workshops and education 194 Evolving the system 200 Image Credits 204 About the authors 206 Index 209
£36.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Winchester Guide to Keywords and Concepts for
Book SynopsisThis welcome new resource for international students in art, design, and media provides clear explanations of the terminology and concepts they must master in order to fulfill their academic potential and enrich their professional careers.Trade Review“This book will be useful to introduce the students to the keywords and concepts of art. It will be most useful as a supplementary textbook.” (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements x Preface xi I KEY WORDS AND PHRASES IN ART, DESIGN AND MEDIA 1 Part A glossary 2 Part B Useful educational terms 83 Part C Verb list 90 Making behaviour 90 Creative behaviour 92 Complex, logical and judgemental behaviour 93 Study behaviour 94 II ILLUSTRATED ART OBJECTS 95 III STUDY SKILLS 113 Part A Defining principles 114 The Western educational style 114 Convergent and divergent thinking 115 Part B Study skills in art, media and design 117 What are BA honours, MA and PhD degrees? 117 What is practice-based postgraduate research? 119 Learning goals in art, media and design courses 120 Learning outcomes 121 IV METHODOLOGIES AND CULTURAL CONTEXT 125 Part A Some historical background 126 Part B Thinking about world-views 134 Creating your own world-view 136 Part C Methodological approaches in art, media and design 141 Historical background 141 Modernism 143 Postmodernism 147 V AN INTRODUCTION TO KEY THINKERS AND CONCEPTS IN ART, MEDIA AND DESIGN 151 Part A Background 156 1. Sociology 157 2. Psychology 159 3. Phenomenology 162 4. Philosophy of language 166 5. Marxism 169 6. Vitalism 172 Part B Contemporary thinkers and concepts 175 1. Structuralism 180 2. Hermeneutics 181 3. Pragmatism 183 4. Poststructuralism 185 5. Post-Marxism 189 6. Gender studies 199 7. Postcolonial theory 201 8. Postmodern vitalist theory 204 9. Technology, media and postmodernity 209 10. Posthumanism and cyberculture 215 VI OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION 221 Part A Graphics 222 Galleries and museums 222 Artists’ materials, book and computer shops 223 Art and design awards 223 Magazines, websites and blogs 224 Designers and agencies 224 Part B Fine art 227 Art shops and bookshops in london 227 Art and design awards 227 Magazines, websites and blogs 228 Studios 228 Artists 228 VII SUGGESTED GENERAL READING 231 General surveys 232 Key texts 232 Modern art 233 Contemporary art 235 New media 238 Global art 238 Design 239 Index 240
£71.96
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Winchester Guide to Keywords and Concepts for
Book SynopsisThis welcome new resource for international students in art, design, and media provides clear explanations of the terminology and concepts they must master in order to fulfill their academic potential and enrich their professional careers.Trade Review“This book will be useful to introduce the students to the keywords and concepts of art. It will be most useful as a supplementary textbook.” (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements x Preface xi I KEY WORDS AND PHRASES IN ART, DESIGN AND MEDIA 1 Part A glossary 2 Part B Useful educational terms 83 Part C Verb list 90 Making behaviour 90 Creative behaviour 92 Complex, logical and judgemental behaviour 93 Study behaviour 94 II ILLUSTRATED ART OBJECTS 95 III STUDY SKILLS 113 Part A Defining principles 114 The Western educational style 114 Convergent and divergent thinking 115 Part B Study skills in art, media and design 117 What are BA honours, MA and PhD degrees? 117 What is practice-based postgraduate research? 119 Learning goals in art, media and design courses 120 Learning outcomes 121 IV METHODOLOGIES AND CULTURAL CONTEXT 125 Part A Some historical background 126 Part B Thinking about world-views 134 Creating your own world-view 136 Part C Methodological approaches in art, media and design 141 Historical background 141 Modernism 143 Postmodernism 147 V AN INTRODUCTION TO KEY THINKERS AND CONCEPTS IN ART, MEDIA AND DESIGN 151 Part A Background 156 1. Sociology 157 2. Psychology 159 3. Phenomenology 162 4. Philosophy of language 166 5. Marxism 169 6. Vitalism 172 Part B Contemporary thinkers and concepts 175 1. Structuralism 180 2. Hermeneutics 181 3. Pragmatism 183 4. Poststructuralism 185 5. Post-Marxism 189 6. Gender studies 199 7. Postcolonial theory 201 8. Postmodern vitalist theory 204 9. Technology, media and postmodernity 209 10. Posthumanism and cyberculture 215 VI OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION 221 Part A Graphics 222 Galleries and museums 222 Artists’ materials, book and computer shops 223 Art and design awards 223 Magazines, websites and blogs 224 Designers and agencies 224 Part B Fine art 227 Art shops and bookshops in london 227 Art and design awards 227 Magazines, websites and blogs 228 Studios 228 Artists 228 VII SUGGESTED GENERAL READING 231 General surveys 232 Key texts 232 Modern art 233 Contemporary art 235 New media 238 Global art 238 Design 239 Index 240
£27.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer
Book SynopsisBegin your graphic design career now, with the guidance of industry experts Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer is a single source guide to the myriad of options available to those pursuing a graphic design career. With an emphasis on portfolio requirements and job opportunities, this guide helps both students and individuals interested in entering the design field prepare for successful careers. Coverage includes design inspiration, design genres, and design education, with discussion of the specific career options available in print, interactive, and motion design. Interviews with leading designers like Michael Bierut, Stefan Sagmeister, and Mirko Ilic give readers an insider''s perspective on career trajectory and a glimpse into everyday operations and inspirations at a variety of companies and firms. Design has become a multi-platform activity that involves aesthetic, creative, and technical expertise. Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer showTable of ContentsForeword viii Glossary x Job Opportunities xii Job Seeking xii The Optimum Portfolio xiii First Impressions xiii One: Graphic Design 1 Inspirations and Motivations Michael Bierut: On Being a Graphic Designer 17 Stephen Doyle: Selfish-In a Good Way 23 Stefan Sagmeister: On Being Self-Motivated 27 Arnold Schwartzman: Still Designing after All These Years 30 Gail Anderson: The Joys of Print Design 33 2 Starting A Studio or Working for Someone Else Lynda Decker: Mapping Out the Future 37 Fernando Music: From Boss to Employee 40 Allison Henry Aver: Working Holistically 43 Romain Raclin: Creative Space 46 Alexander Isley: Staying Independent 49 Agnieszka Gasparska: Small Is Sensible 54 Bobby Martin and Jennifer Kinon: Championing Design 58 Antonio Alcalá: What a Dream Client Looks Like 62 Mark Pernice: From Band Member to Design Leader 65 Tamara Gildengers Connolly: Balancing Studio and Home 68 Araba Simpson: One Person, All Alone 72 Matt Luckhurst: Designing for Design Firms 74 3 Partners on Partnering Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker: Not a Lot of Verbalizing 79 Stuart Rogers and Sam Eckersley: Sharing Responsibilities 82 Justin Colt and Jose Fresneda: How Partners Becomes Partners 86 Greg D'Onofrio and Patricia Belen: Two Partners, One Passion 90 Scott Buschkuhl: At Present We Are Three 93 Two: Design Genres 4 Letters and Type Marian Bantjes: Lettering as Art and Business 98 Andy Cruz and Rich Roat: There's a Type Designer in the House 100 Pierre di Scuillo: Typography That Speaks Up 104 Ross MacDonald: An Illustrator's Passion for Type 108 Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich: For the Love of Type 112 How Many Typefaces Can You Love? (sidebar) 115 5 Making Logos and Marks Mark Fox: The Mark Maker 117 6 Books and Book Jackets Scott-Martin Kosofsky: Making a Living Doing Books 123 Michael Carabetta: Books and E-Books 127 Paul Buckley: The Bookkeeper 130 Jim Heimann: Making Visual Books 134 7 Editorial Design Len Small: Print Is Bouncing Back 141 Susanna Shannon: Art Director Becomes Editor 144 8 Social Innovation Mark Randall: Citizen Designer 149 Bob McKinnon: Socially Impactful Design 154 9 Branding and Packaging Sharon Werner: Approachable Design 157 10 Illustration Design Michel Bouvet: Poster Man 163 Mirko Ilic: Design Is Like Classical Ballet 166 Steve Brodner: Graphic Commentary and Design 170 Steven Guarnaccia: The Old New Illustration 174 Neil Gower: Fraudulent Graphic Designer 178 Craig Frazier: Designing Pictures 182 Three: Transitional Design 11 Understanding Change Richard Saul Wurman: The Architect of Understanding 189 Crossing Disciplines (sidebar) 191 Petrula Vrontikis: Creating Interactions 193 Erik Adigard: The Experience of the Information 196 Véronique Marrier: Graphic Design as a Cause 200 Making Transitions: Returning to School with Barbara DeWilde (sidebar) 203 12 Eccentrics and Design Quirkiness Charles S. Anderson: Celebrating Commercial Art 205 Antoine Audiau and Manuel Varosz: Over-the-top Digita D.I.Y. 208 Ludovic Houplain/H5: Getting an Oscar for Graphic Design 210 Cary Murnion: Designing Cooties 214 Nick Ace: Speaking Frankly 217 13 What Comes Next Timothy Goodman: Disposable Ideas 221 Ryan Feerer: Making Design Meals 224 Design Entrepreneurship (sidebar) 227 Franco Cervi: "I Am Reckless!" 228 Four: Digital Design 14 Interactive Multimedia Installations and Interfaces Debugging the Language of Digital Job Titles (sidebar) 233 Jeroen Barendse: Subverting the Mental Map 234 Julien Gachadoat: Demomaking for a Living 237 Ada Whitney: The New Motion 240 Defining the New Animation: Popularity, by J.J. Sedelmeir (sidebar) 241 Defining the New Animation: Technology's Perks, by J.J. Sedelmeir (sidebar) 242 Jean-Louis Fréchin: Asking the Right Questions 243 Alexander Chen: Working for Google (sidebar) 245 15 Designing Apps for Mobile Devices Sean Bumgarner: Between Text and Images 247 Michel Chanaud: Always Learning 250 John Kilpatrick: Designer as Accelerator 255 Nicolas Ledoux and Pascal Bejean: Digital Books and Magazines by Contemporary Artists 256 Typography on the Web, by Jason Santa Maria (sidebar) 258 Frédérique Krupa: Games as Powerful Motivators 260 Girls and Games (sidebar) 262 16 E-Commerce with a Soul Randy J. Hunt: Growing into a Job 265 Lucy Sisman: Online Editorial Ventures 269 Nancy Kruger Cohen: Addicted to Startups 272 17 User Experience Specialists Bruce Charonnat: Understanding Human-Computer Interaction 277 Michael Aidan: Using the Audience as Media 279 Hugh Dubberly: Mapping the Relationship between Ideas 282 Matthew Stadler: To Publish: To Create a Public for Books 288 18 Geeks, Programmers, Developers, Tinkerers Frieder Nake: Controlling Computers with Our Thoughts 293 Mark Webster: Iterations and Algorithms 296 Five: Design Education 19 Making Choices Andrea Marks: Old School, New School 308 Lita Talarico: Educating Design Entrepreneurs 311 Rudi Meyer: Developing the Righ Attitude 314 Lucille Tenazas: Idiosyncratic Contexts 317 Liz Danzico: Interfacing with UX 320 Allan Chochinov: The Maker Generation 322 David Carroll: Students and Surveillance 325 APPS That Track, by David Carroll (sidebar) 327 Appendix 1 College Directory 328 Appendix 2 Additional Reading 330 Index 332
£36.05
John Wiley & Sons Inc Studying Early Printed Books 14501800
Book SynopsisA comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books shapes how we read and understand them. The author offers an insightful overview of how books were made in the hand-press period and then includes an in-depth review of the specific aspects of the printing process. She addresses questions such as: How was paper made? What were different book formats? How did the press work? In addition, the text is filled with illustrative examples that demonstrate how understanding the early processes can be helpful to today's researchers. Studying Early Printed Books shows the connections between the material form of a book (what it looks like and how it was made), how a book conveys its meaning and how it is used by readers. The author helps readTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1 Overview 8 Getting Ready to Print 8 At the Press 16 Also at the Press 19 After Printing 20 The Economics of Printing 23 Part 2 Step-by-Step 26 Paper 26 Type 34 Format 42 Printing 55 Corrections and Changes 61 Illustrations 65 Binding 71 Part 3 On the Page 79 Advertisements 79 Alphabet and Abbreviations 80 Blanks 83 Dates 83 Imprint Statements 85 Edition, Impression, Issue, State, Copy 86 Initial Letters 88 Marginal Notes 90 Music 91 Pagination and Foliation 92 Preliminary Leaves 92 Press Figures 93 Printer’s Devices 95 Printer’s Ornaments 95 Privileges, Approbations, and Imprimaturs 96 Signature Marks 96 Title Pages 98 Volvelles and Movable Figures 100 Part 4 Looking at Books 102 Good Research Habits 103 Handling Books 104 Appearance 106 Contents 108 Page Features 111 Usage 113 Digitization 114 Part 5 The Afterlives of Books 118 Loss Rates 118 Catalog Records 120 Books in Hand 132 Books on Screen 139 Conclusion 149 Appendix 1: Further Reading 152 Appendix 2: Glossary 171 Index 180
£70.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc An Introduction to Textile Coloration
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Textile Coloration: Principles and Practice The Publications Committee of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) has been aware for some time of the need to produce a book at an introductory level aimed at personnel working in textile dyeing or printing companies as well as those interested in entering into the field. The SDC runs a course for dyehouse technicians leading to the award of its Textile Coloration Certificate and this book is intended to be helpful for candidates following the course. Additionally, it will be helpful for professionals in textile companies who do not have a strong scientific background, so that they may attain a better understanding of the chemical principles of colour application. Starting with the basic science underlying dyeing and printing processes, this comprehensive book explains the fundamentals of dye and pigment chemistry and the various application techniques and processes. It offers chapter coverage Table of ContentsSociety of Dyers and Colourists xiii Preface xv 1 General Chemistry Related to Textiles 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Atomic Structure 1 1.3 Periodic Table of the Elements 4 1.4 Valency and Bonding 6 1.4.1 Giving or Receiving of Electrons: Formation of Ionic Bonds 6 1.4.2 Sharing of Electrons: Formation of Covalent Bonds 8 1.4.3 Secondary Forces of Attraction 10 1.5 Chemical Reactions 13 1.5.1 Types of Chemical Reaction 13 1.5.2 Rates of Chemical Reactions and Chemical Equilibria 14 1.5.3 Effect of Temperature on Rate of Reaction 16 1.5.4 Catalysts 17 1.5.5 Thermodynamics of Reactions 19 1.5.5.1 The First Law of Thermodynamics 19 1.5.5.2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 20 1.5.5.3 The Third Law of Thermodynamics 21 1.5.5.4 Free Energy 21 1.5.5.5 Interpreting Thermodynamic Data 22 1.6 Acids, Bases and Salts 23 1.6.1 Acids and Bases 23 1.6.2 The pH Scale 23 1.6.3 Salts and Salt Hydrolysis 24 1.6.4 Buffer Solutions 25 1.7 Redox Reactions 26 1.8 Organic Chemistry 27 1.8.1 The Hydrocarbons 27 1.8.1.1 Aliphatic Hydrocarbons 28 1.8.1.2 Aromatic Hydrocarbons 30 1.8.2 Functional Groups 32 1.8.3 Important Functional Groups of Aliphatic Compounds 32 1.8.3.1 Halides 32 1.8.3.2 Alcohols 33 1.8.3.3 Carboxylic Acids 34 1.8.3.4 Esters 35 1.8.3.5 Aldehydes and Ketones 36 1.8.3.6 Ethers 36 1.8.3.7 Amines 36 1.8.3.8 Cyano and Nitro Groups 38 1.8.4 Important Functional Groups of Aromatic Compounds 38 1.8.5 Important Compounds in Textile Dyeing 40 1.8.5.1 Sequestering Agents 40 1.8.5.2 Surface‐Active Agents (Surfactants) 41 1.8.5.3 Carriers 42 1.9 The Use of Chemicals by Industry 43 1.9.1 Reach 43 1.9.2 Effluent Disposal 44 2 Textile Fibres 47 2.1 Introduction 47 2.2 Nature of Fibre‐Forming Polymers 51 2.3 Properties of Textile Fibres 54 2.4 Mechanical Properties of Textile Fibres 54 2.4.1 Fibre Length 54 2.4.2 Fibre Fineness 54 2.4.3 Fibre Strength 55 2.5 Chemistry of the Main Fibre Types 57 2.5.1 Cellulosic Fibres 57 2.5.1.1 Cotton 57 2.5.1.2 Chemistry of Cotton 58 2.5.1.3 Morphology of Cotton 60 2.5.1.4 Properties of Cotton 62 2.5.1.5 Organic Cotton 64 2.5.2 Other Cellulosic Fibres 65 2.6 Protein Fibres 65 2.6.1 Wool 66 2.6.1.1 Chemistry of Wool 66 2.6.1.2 Morphology of Wool 70 2.6.1.3 Properties of Wool Fibres 72 2.6.1.4 Ecological Aspects 74 2.6.2 Hair Fibres 74 2.6.3 Silk 74 2.7 Regenerated Fibres 75 2.7.1 Early Developments 75 2.7.2 Viscose 76 2.7.3 Lyocell Fibres 77 2.7.4 Cellulose Acetate Fibres 79 2.7.5 Polylactic Acid Fibres 80 2.8 Synthetic Fibres 81 2.8.1 Condensation Polymers 82 2.8.1.1 Polyamide (Nylon) Fibres 82 2.8.1.2 Aramid Fibres 84 2.8.1.3 Polyester Fibres 85 2.8.1.4 Elastomeric Fibres 87 2.8.2 Addition Polymers 87 2.8.2.1 Polyolefin Fibres 87 2.8.2.2 Acrylic Fibres 89 2.9 Conversion of Synthetic Polymers into Fibre Filaments 90 2.10 Fibre Cross‐Sectional Shapes 92 2.11 Microfibres 93 2.12 Absorbent Fibres 94 2.13 Drawing of Synthetic Fibre Filaments 94 2.14 Conversion of Man‐Made Fibre Filaments to Staple 96 2.15 Imparting Texture to Synthetic Fibres 96 2.16 Fibre Blends 97 2.17 Textile Manufacturing 99 2.17.1 Yarns 99 2.17.2 Fabrics 99 2.17.2.1 Woven Fabrics 100 2.17.2.2 Knitted Fabrics 103 Suggested Further Reading 105 3 Chemistry of Dyes and Pigments 107 3.1 Introduction 107 3.2 Classification of Colorants 107 3.3 Colour in Organic Molecules 110 3.4 Classification of Dyes According to Chemical Structure 113 3.4.1 Azo Dyes 113 3.4.2 Anthraquinone Dyes 115 3.4.3 Methine and Polymethine Dyes 116 3.4.4 Nitro Dyes 116 3.4.5 Triarylmethane Dyes 117 3.5 Classification of Dyes According to Application Class 117 3.5.1 Dyes for Protein Fibres 117 3.5.1.1 Acid Dyes 117 3.5.1.2 Mordant Dyes 120 3.5.1.3 Pre‐metallised (or Metal‐Complex) Dyes 121 3.5.1.4 Reactive Dyes 123 3.5.1.5 Summary 126 3.5.2 Dyes for Cellulosic Fibres 127 3.5.2.1 Direct Dyes 127 3.5.2.2 Vat Dyes 128 3.5.2.3 Solubilised Vat Dyes 129 3.5.2.4 Reactive Dyes 130 3.5.2.5 Sulphur Dyes 134 3.5.2.6 Azoic Dyes 136 3.5.3 Dyes for Synthetic Fibres 137 3.5.3.1 Disperse Dyes 137 3.5.3.2 Basic Dyes 138 3.5.4 Pigments 139 3.6 Commercial Naming of Dyes and Pigments 141 3.7 Strength and Physical Form of Colorants 141 References 142 4 Industrial Coloration Methods 143 4.1 Introduction 143 4.2 Dye Application Processes 143 4.2.1 Wool Dyeing 143 4.2.1.1 Acid Dyes 143 4.2.1.2 Chrome Dyes 145 4.2.1.3 Pre‐metallised Dyes 147 4.2.1.4 Reactive Dyes 149 4.2.1.5 Summary 150 4.2.2 Cellulosic Fibre Dyeing 151 4.2.2.1 Introduction 151 4.2.2.2 Direct Dyes 152 4.2.2.3 Vat Dyes 154 4.2.2.4 Reactive Dyes 157 4.2.2.5 Sulphur Dyes 161 4.2.2.6 Azoic Dyes 162 4.2.3 Polyester Fibre Dyeing 162 4.2.4 Nylon Fibre Dyeing 167 4.2.4.1 Disperse Dyes 167 4.2.4.2 Acid Dyes 167 4.2.4.3 Reactive Dyes 170 4.2.5 Acrylic Fibre Dyeing 171 4.2.5.1 Basic (Cationic) Dyes 171 4.2.5.2 Disperse Dyes 172 4.2.6 Polypropylene Fibre Dyeing 172 4.2.7 Dyeing Fibre Blends 172 4.2.7.1 Wool Fibre Blends 172 4.2.7.2 Cotton Fibre Blends 174 4.3 Dyeing Machinery 176 4.3.1 Introduction 176 4.3.2 Dyeing Loose Fibre 178 4.3.3 Top Dyeing 179 4.3.4 Yarn Dyeing 180 4.3.4.1 Package Dyeing 180 4.3.4.2 Beam Dyeing for Yarns 183 4.3.4.3 Hank Dyeing 185 4.3.5 Fabric Dyeing 187 4.3.5.1 Winch Dyeing 187 4.3.5.2 Jig Dyeing 188 4.3.5.3 Beam Dyeing of Fabric 191 4.3.5.4 Jet Dyeing 192 4.3.6 Garment Dyeing 194 4.3.6.1 Side‐Paddle Machines 195 4.3.6.2 Rotating Drum Machines 196 4.3.7 Continuous Dyeing 197 4.4 Supercritical Fluid Dyeing 199 References 201 Suggested Further Reading 202 5 Textile Printing 203 5.1 Introduction 203 5.2 Print Paste Formulation 204 5.3 Thickeners 205 5.3.1 Natural Products 205 5.3.1.1 Starch‐Based Thickeners 206 5.3.1.2 Alginates 206 5.3.1.3 Xanthans 206 5.3.2 Modified Natural Products 208 5.3.2.1 Carboxymethyl Cellulose 208 5.3.3 Synthetic Products 208 5.3.3.1 Emulsions 208 5.4 Binders 209 5.5 Pigments and Dyes 209 5.5.1 Pigments 210 5.5.2 Dyes 211 5.6 Printing Screens 212 5.6.1 Flat Screens 212 5.6.2 Rotary Screens 213 5.6.3 Engraved Rollers 214 5.7 Stages of Printing 215 5.7.1 Transport 215 5.7.2 Fixation (Dye‐Based Prints) 216 5.7.3 Wash‐Off (Dye‐Based Prints) 217 5.7.4 Pigment Prints 217 5.8 Printing Styles 217 5.8.1 Direct Printing 218 5.8.2 Discharge Printing 218 5.8.3 Resist Printing 220 5.9 Printing Methods 221 5.9.1 Flat Screen Printing 221 5.9.2 Rotary Screen Printing 221 5.9.3 Copper Roller Printing 223 5.9.4 Heat Transfer Printing 224 5.9.5 Ink Jet Printing 225 5.9.5.1 Continuous Ink Jet Technology 226 5.9.5.2 Thermal Ink Jet Printing 226 5.9.5.3 Piezo Ink Jet Printing 227 5.9.6 Comparisons between Ink Jet Printing and Screen Printing 228 Suggested Further Reading 229 6 Theoretical Aspects of Dyeing 231 6.1 Introduction 231 6.2 Kinetic Aspects of Dyeing 232 6.3 Dye Aggregation 235 6.4 Diffusion 243 6.4.1 Measurement of the Diffusion Coefficient of Dyes 244 6.4.2 Activation Energy of Diffusion 246 6.5 Rate of Dyeing 247 6.6 Adsorption 250 6.6.1 Physical Adsorption 250 6.6.2 Chemical Adsorption (Chemisorption) 252 6.6.3 Adsorption Isotherms 252 6.7 Thermodynamic Information Derived from Equilibrium Studies of Dyeing Systems 256 6.7.1 Standard Affinity, Standard Enthalpy and Standard Entropy of Dyeing 256 6.7.2 Determination of Thermodynamic Values for the Three Dye/Fibre System Types 258 References 276 Suggested Further Reading 276 7 The Measurement of Colour 277 7.1 Introduction 277 7.2 Describing Colour 277 7.3 Additive and Subtractive Colour Mixing 278 7.3.1 Additive Colour Mixing 278 7.3.2 Subtractive Colour Mixing 279 7.4 The Colour Solid 280 7.5 Factors Affecting Colour Appearance 284 7.5.1 Light Sources 285 7.5.1.1 Colour Temperature of Light Sources 288 7.5.1.2 Standard Illuminants 288 7.5.2 Reflection 290 7.5.3 The Eye 295 7.6 The CIE System of Colour Specification 297 7.6.1 The Standard Observer 297 7.6.2 Specification of Surface Colours in the CIE XYZ System 299 7.6.3 Interpretation of Tristimulus Values 302 7.7 Applications of the CIE System 304 7.7.1 Colorant Formulation 304 7.7.2 Colour‐Difference Formulae 310 7.7.3 Assessment of Metamerism 316 7.7.4 Assessment of Colour Constancy 317 7.7.5 Colour Sorting 319 7.7.6 Measurement of Whiteness 321 7.8 Solution Colour Measurement 322 Suggested Further Reading 326 8 Fastness Testing 327 8.1 Introduction 327 8.2 Standards Related to Coloration 328 8.3 Resistance of Coloured Fabric to Harmful Agencies 330 8.4 Principles of Colour Fastness Testing 331 8.4.1 The ISO Standards Outlining the General Principles 331 8.4.2 Grey Scales 331 8.4.3 Standard Depths 334 8.5 Fastness Tests 336 8.5.1 Light Fastness Tests 336 8.5.2 Washing Fastness Tests 338 8.5.3 Rubbing Fastness 340 8.5.4 Other Fastness Tests 341 8.5.4.1 Fastness to Water 341 8.5.4.2 Fastness to Seawater 341 8.5.4.3 Fastness to Chlorinated Water (Swimming Pool Water) 341 8.5.4.4 Fastness to Perspiration 342 8.5.4.5 Fastness to Dry Cleaning Using Perchloroethylene Solvent 342 8.5.5 Miscellaneous Fastness Tests 342 8.6 Test Organisations for Sustainable Textile Manufacture 343 References 343 Appendix Some Textile Terms and Definitions 345 Index 347
£72.15
Taylor & Francis Ltd Design for Innovative Technology
Book SynopsisDespite their often remarkable performance, new and `disruptive' technologies often meet with resistance from the general public. Design sometimes assumed to play a purely aesthetic role is central in making revolutionary technology acceptable to society. Mastering design allows technological breakthroughs to transcend the innovation stage and to enter daily life. In this clear and accessible book, Nicolas Henchoz and Yves Mirande offer a new vision for the discipline. A wide range of practical case studies examine how the principles discussed in the book can renew the interplay between design and innovation. These include: solar cells dye-sensitized with raspberry juice; Montreux Jazz Festival archives being recognized, protected and distributed by UNESCO; creating new materials such as densified wood; developing augmented reality; and many more. The surprising results are highly relevant for our digital world and its countless challenges. Building on contributions from the sociolTable of ContentsPreface Part 1: Birth of an Adventure 1. The Context of Design in the Past and Today 2. Uniting Differences 3. Two Institutions, One Encounter 4. Creation of EPFL+ECAL Lab: A Will, A Place 5. An International Network Part 2: Visions and Propositions 6. Call for a New Digital Revolution 7. Paradox: Disruptive Yet Decidedly Normal 8. In Search of the First World 9. For a New Culture of Innovation Bibliography & Biographies
£45.60
New York University Press Accessible America
Book SynopsisA history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible designdesign for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they Trade ReviewAccessible America offers an important history of how and why design for disability has evolved and needs to evolve. * Curbed.com *This illuminating and thoughtful overview of the evolution of accessible design in the U.S. between the end of WWII and the late 1990s is a strong introduction to the topic...Williamson skillfully connects design concepts to changing social narratives; this work should reward readers interested in either topic. * Publishers Weekly *Williamson keenly emphasizes that the United States has led the world globally toward physical access and accessibility as acceptable and admirable natural and civil rights rather than annoying physical encumbrances that stand in the way...reading [this]can change lives. * Library Journal *Accessible America is handsomely produced and will appeal to readers interested in design, disability studies, and social history. -- CHOICEAmerica was once even less accessible than it is now, as historicized by Bess Williamson in her book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. Williamson uses her background in art and design to critique the ways that nationalism and idealism have driven material environments to reflect societal norms in the United States post World War II. She integrates analysis with historical images that exhibit how truly inaccessible this country has been throughout history, which she artfully points out as being in "response to a lack" for much of modern history. * Disability Studies Quarterly *Beautifully and engagingly written, Williamson's approach to the history of accessibility as a history of design is brilliant. Accessible America shows how disability advocates harnessed technological design in their quest for access and equality, paying particular attention to the connection between prosthetic devices and the 'universal' design that followed, illuminating both histories. Highly recommended. -- Douglas C. Baynton,author of Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of EugenicsBess Williamson's engaging history of accessible design points the way to design as a tool for empowerment, critique, and self-expression that celebrates the diversity of human bodies. Disability is a culture, not a lack. -- Ellen Lupton,Curator of Contemporary Design at The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumBy unearthing, situating, and interpreting artifacts of accessible designfrom World War II to the rise of the Independent Living Movement to the post-ADA eraWilliamson's book offers a much-needed contribution to disability history as we know it while also reshaping it for the next generation of disability historians, designers, and activists. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar AmericaWilliamson reveals the hidden history of how the Disability Rights Movement's struggle for inclusion rebuilt the world. Reaching back to activist veterans returning from World War II, through the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, to ergonomics, universal design, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Williamson shows us the transformed America that gives us the tools and pathways we all use every day to make our lives work better, and that the emergence of inclusive design and the world it makes is a tool for justice. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,author of Extraordinary BodiesThe contents of this book are a win for historians of disability as well as for historians of technology, architecture, and design. * H-Net Reviews *Accessible America is a must-read for scholars of disability history and material culture ... Williamson’s design-centered approach charts an effective and compelling road map for future disability studies projects, and she suggests interesting possibilities for further research on the built environment and US disability history. * Winterthur Portfolio *A special strength of Williamson’s work is the emphasis on the role of people with disabilities as active agents of change in design [...] Accessible America manages to include the hidden stories of the history of disability-related design and places them in a wider context of technological, political, and social change, including the growing impact of the disability movement. * Technology and Culture *
£18.04
New York University Press Accessible America
Book SynopsisA history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible designdesign for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they Trade ReviewAccessible America offers an important history of how and why design for disability has evolved and needs to evolve. * Curbed.com *This illuminating and thoughtful overview of the evolution of accessible design in the U.S. between the end of WWII and the late 1990s is a strong introduction to the topic...Williamson skillfully connects design concepts to changing social narratives; this work should reward readers interested in either topic. * Publishers Weekly *Williamson keenly emphasizes that the United States has led the world globally toward physical access and accessibility as acceptable and admirable natural and civil rights rather than annoying physical encumbrances that stand in the way...reading [this]can change lives. * Library Journal *Accessible America is handsomely produced and will appeal to readers interested in design, disability studies, and social history. -- CHOICEAmerica was once even less accessible than it is now, as historicized by Bess Williamson in her book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. Williamson uses her background in art and design to critique the ways that nationalism and idealism have driven material environments to reflect societal norms in the United States post World War II. She integrates analysis with historical images that exhibit how truly inaccessible this country has been throughout history, which she artfully points out as being in "response to a lack" for much of modern history. * Disability Studies Quarterly *Beautifully and engagingly written, Williamson's approach to the history of accessibility as a history of design is brilliant. Accessible America shows how disability advocates harnessed technological design in their quest for access and equality, paying particular attention to the connection between prosthetic devices and the 'universal' design that followed, illuminating both histories. Highly recommended. -- Douglas C. Baynton,author of Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of EugenicsBess Williamson's engaging history of accessible design points the way to design as a tool for empowerment, critique, and self-expression that celebrates the diversity of human bodies. Disability is a culture, not a lack. -- Ellen Lupton,Curator of Contemporary Design at The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumBy unearthing, situating, and interpreting artifacts of accessible designfrom World War II to the rise of the Independent Living Movement to the post-ADA eraWilliamson's book offers a much-needed contribution to disability history as we know it while also reshaping it for the next generation of disability historians, designers, and activists. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar AmericaWilliamson reveals the hidden history of how the Disability Rights Movement's struggle for inclusion rebuilt the world. Reaching back to activist veterans returning from World War II, through the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, to ergonomics, universal design, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Williamson shows us the transformed America that gives us the tools and pathways we all use every day to make our lives work better, and that the emergence of inclusive design and the world it makes is a tool for justice. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,author of Extraordinary BodiesThe contents of this book are a win for historians of disability as well as for historians of technology, architecture, and design. * H-Net Reviews *Accessible America is a must-read for scholars of disability history and material culture ... Williamson’s design-centered approach charts an effective and compelling road map for future disability studies projects, and she suggests interesting possibilities for further research on the built environment and US disability history. * Winterthur Portfolio *A special strength of Williamson’s work is the emphasis on the role of people with disabilities as active agents of change in design [...] Accessible America manages to include the hidden stories of the history of disability-related design and places them in a wider context of technological, political, and social change, including the growing impact of the disability movement. * Technology and Culture *
£66.60
Stanford University Press Artful Design: Technology in Search of the
Book SynopsisWhat we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by technological change, this book articulates a fundamental principle for design: that we should design not just from practical needs but from the values that underlie those needs. Artful Design takes readers on a journey through the aesthetic dimensions of technology. Using music as a universal phenomenon that has evolved alongside technology, this book breaks down concrete case studies in computer-mediated toys, tools, games, and instruments, including the best-selling app Ocarina. Every chapter elaborates a set of general design principles and strategies that illuminate the essential relationship between aesthetics and engineering, art and design. Ge Wang implores us to both embrace and confront technology, not purely as a means to an end, but in its potential to enrich life. Technology is never a neutral agent, but through what we do with it—through what we design with it—it provides a mirror to our human endeavors and values. Artful Design delivers an aesthetic manifesto of technology, accessible yet uncompromising.Trade Review"[Artful Design] touches on architecture, product design, video games, and other media, unraveling the universal design concepts woven into all creative work. Wang infuses the comic with plenty of humor and a sense of wonder at the infinite possibilities of art and technology."—Publishers Weekly
£34.00
University of Minnesota Press Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the
Book SynopsisA cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames For the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eameses modeled as they brought film into their design practice. Midcentury modernism is often considered institutionalized, but Happiness by Design casts Eames-era designers as innovative media artists, technophilic humanists, change managers, and neglected film theorists.Happiness by Design offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers—Will Burtin, László Moholy-Nagy, and György Kepes, among others—at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century’s exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age.Eames-era modernism, Nieland shows, fueled novel techniques of culture administration, spawning new partnerships between cultural and educational institutions, corporations, and the state. From the studio, showroom floor, or classroom to the stages of world fairs and international conferences, the midcentury multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their circle became key to a liberal democratic lifestyle—and also anticipated the look and feel of our networked present.Trade Review"Happiness by Design is a fascinating contribution to the fate of modernisms at midcentury. Justus Nieland unpacks the cheery products of Eames-era modern design as they manifest in material objects, in experimental films and multi-screen media, and in new forms of knowledge-making at conferences and lectures. He weaves all of this together in a rich and often surprising intellectual history of the midcentury ‘good life’ that questions how designers’ attempts to fashion human happiness quickly devolved into sad stories and risky futures."—Lynn Spigel, author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television"Happiness by Design is an astonishingly rich and inventive book. It immerses us in a world of midcentury modernism that feels connected to our present but is shaped by ideas and hopes we have perhaps forgotten. Justus Nieland has written a fantastic cultural history of the artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals who not only created some of the most iconic works of the period, but also whole environments filled with media and technologies actually designed to make life better."—Mark Goble, author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life"Who doesn’t want to be happy? Justus Nieland’s brilliant book exposes the political and aesthetic stakes of this seemingly innocent desire voiced by so many of us in the present. Breaking new ground in film studies, Happiness by Design builds an account of how happiness became a technology, medium, and measure of human well-being and security. Happiness, in this book, is not just an emotion—it is a technique that has become central to how we imagine not only who we are but how we will survive in a rapidly changing world."—Orit Halpern, author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 "The book’s design reinforces its subjects’ focus on knowledge organization and delivery."—ARLIS/NA Reviews"A dazzling array of theorizing on the plight of the world and the roles of designers and theoreticians in it."—CHOICE"Happiness by Design is an astonishingly rich portrait of an era whose reinvention of happiness out of global disaster might help chart out our own life among the ruins."—American Literary History"Lusciously illustrated . . . this book invites historians of design to consider the interdisciplinary practices and media techniques that shaped twentieth-century modernist design in the US and offers an invaluable resource for media scholars interested in the ways that design culture shaped period media practices. A wonderful read."—Design and Culture "Adventurous readers as well as film enthusiasts wishing to understand the medium in a much-wider context will find a veritable treasure trove of information."—Film International "Extensively researched and richly illustrated, Happiness by Design is a fascinating and inventive approach to the transformations of modernism at midcentury."—Synoptique"Throughout this probe into designers’ media experiments and their involvement in the organization of culture, Nieland employs his own organizational techniques, engaging midcentury discourses and reckonings with technology and information."—CAA Reviews"A dazzling intellectual history of a period marked by creative ferment and interdisciplinary collaboration... the result should change the way we think about our own disciplinary history."—Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
£30.60
University of Minnesota Press The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics,
Book SynopsisHow new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their environments had a profound impact on theories and practices in architecture, design, art, technology, media, and the sciences. The resulting initiatives—design philosophies, art installations, architectural projects, exhibitions, publications, and symposia—sought to bring together insights from biology, systems theory, psychology, and anthropology with modernist legacies of total design.In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, György Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.The Responsive Environment intercuts the development of new ideas about environmental awareness with case studies of specific architecture and design projects for responsive environments. Throughout, Busbea connects these theories and practices to the contemporary obsession with “smart” things: responsive technologies, intelligent environments, biomimetic materials, and digital atmospherics.Trade Review"The Responsive Environment contributes vital research on the emergence of responsive environments within design experiments and projects undertaken in the 1970s. Abounding with remarkable archival materials, this detailed study of designers and practices offers a valuable historical account of the rise of the smart surrounds that now characterize contemporary computerized worlds."—Jennifer Gabrys, author of Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet"The Responsive Environment is a necessary book, one that helps us understand how concepts of environment, subjectivity, and aesthetics underpin historical and conceptual developments in art and architecture. It is a carefully crafted journey through essential thinkers in this field, and it opens new pathways for exploring how we relate to objects, environments, and ourselves."—Daniel A. Barber, author of A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics,
Book SynopsisHow new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their environments had a profound impact on theories and practices in architecture, design, art, technology, media, and the sciences. The resulting initiatives—design philosophies, art installations, architectural projects, exhibitions, publications, and symposia—sought to bring together insights from biology, systems theory, psychology, and anthropology with modernist legacies of total design.In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, György Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.The Responsive Environment intercuts the development of new ideas about environmental awareness with case studies of specific architecture and design projects for responsive environments. Throughout, Busbea connects these theories and practices to the contemporary obsession with “smart” things: responsive technologies, intelligent environments, biomimetic materials, and digital atmospherics.Trade Review"The Responsive Environment contributes vital research on the emergence of responsive environments within design experiments and projects undertaken in the 1970s. Abounding with remarkable archival materials, this detailed study of designers and practices offers a valuable historical account of the rise of the smart surrounds that now characterize contemporary computerized worlds."—Jennifer Gabrys, author of Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet"The Responsive Environment is a necessary book, one that helps us understand how concepts of environment, subjectivity, and aesthetics underpin historical and conceptual developments in art and architecture. It is a carefully crafted journey through essential thinkers in this field, and it opens new pathways for exploring how we relate to objects, environments, and ourselves."—Daniel A. Barber, author of A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and
Book SynopsisHow making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be Whether looking inward to the intricacies of human anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe, expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume, scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between a model’s material foundations and the otherwise invisible things it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools, models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract.By focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology, literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural development, both historically and in the present day.Modelwork is unique in calling attention to modeling’s duality, a dynamic exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding world and to find new ways to transform it. Contributors: Hilary Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher Erdoğan Ford, Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; Reed Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams College; Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New York U; Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: ModelworkMartin Brückner and Sandy IsenstadtPart I. Knowing1. Defining ModelsAnnabel Jane Wharton2. Material Models of Immaterial ThingsPeter GalisonPart II. Sensing3. William Farish’s Devices and Drawings: Models for Envisioning Immaterial and Material RealmsHilary Bryon4. “The Instructed Eye”: What Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Drawing Books Tell Us about Vision and How We SeeChristopher J. Lukasik5. Algorithmic Audition: Modeling Musical PerceptionMartin ScherzingerPart III. Making6. The Useful Arts of Nineteenth-Century Patent ModelsReed Gochberg7. Bodies Made of Numbers, Numbers Made of BodiesCatherine Newman Howe8. Hypermodels: Architectural Production in Virtual SpacesSeher Erdoğan FordPart IV. Doing9. Modeling Maneuvers: Anatomical Illustration and the Practice of TouchJuliet S. Sperling10. Models and Manufactures: The Shoe as CommodityLisa Gitelman11. Modeling InterpretationJohanna DruckerAfterword: On the Humility of ModelsSarah WassermanAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
£86.40
Purdue University Press Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History
Book SynopsisDesign 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, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes. It looks to the past to prepare for the future and is the first book to offer an innovative transdisciplinary design history that integrates multidisciplinary sources of knowledge into a mindful whole. It shows design as a process that expresses goals through values and beliefs, functioning as a major factor in contemporary cultural life.Starting with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the book focuses on the evolution of design and culture in the twentieth century to predict where design will go in the future. Given the major social and political shifts currently unfolding across the globe, and the resulting changing demographics and environmental degradation, Design and Culture encourages collaboration and communication between disciplines to prepare for the future of design in a rapidly changing world.Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1750–1870 2. STYLE ON SHOW 1871–1939 3. MODERNIZATION 1919–1967 4. CULTURAL REVOLUTION 1950s–2000 5. THE THIRD MILLENNIUM 2001–2050 NotesIndex
£73.10
University of Delaware Press Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation
Book SynopsisThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy IsenstadtI. Archives in Practice1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating”Julian Yates2. “Archive Vision”Wendy Bellion3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice”Julie L. McGee4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine”Torsten Cress5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding andusing archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it”Cindy Ott6. “Historical Form(s)”Laura HeltonII. Archives in Objects7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan”Jennifer Van Horn8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive”Kiersten Thamm9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment”Alexandra Ward10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History inGerman-American Illuminated Manuscripts”Alexander Lawrence Ames11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive”Halina Adams12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame”Rosalie HooperIII. Archives in Places13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic”Sarah Wasserman14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt”Spencer Wigmore15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground RailroadLandscapes in Delaware”Catherine Morrissey16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment”Michelle Everidge Anderson17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave”Kaila T. Schedeen18. “Buried Archives”Lu Ann De CunzoIV. Archives in Circulation19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster”Natalie Elizabeth Wright20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language AtlanticWorld”Oliver Scheiding21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar”J. Ritchie Garrison22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the SyrianCivil War”Jesse Kraft23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700-1850”Michael Emmons24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform”Jessica ConradAfterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects”Bernard L. HermanNotes on ContributorsIndex
£73.60
NewSouth Publishing Copyfight
Book SynopsisWhat rights do artists and creators have in a world where everything is free?Copyright is one of the central economic and creative issues of our time. We expect to be able to log on and read, watch or listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it, remix it. Does this leave writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, artists and game developers with any rights at all? Have we forgotten how to pay for content? Is the concept of making a living from creativework outdated? Without effective copyright protection will key Australian businesses collapse? And perhaps the biggest question: has illegal downloading become the largest industry of all and copyright violation a way of life?Copyfight brings together writers, musicians and others from creative industries, media companies, cultural institutions, law firms and universities, including John Birmingham, Linda Jaivin, Clem Bastow and Lindy Morrison.
£16.10
Liverpool University Press TransVisuality: The Cultural Dimension of
Book SynopsisIn a contemporary and ever-changing society, ‘the visual’ has become a dynamic element that traverse all parts of current life all over the world – what in this book series is termed transvisuality. The present book is volume 3, which attempts to study the visual as it comes about: through the dynamic involvement in all sorts of articulations. The topics are in all volumes covered by introductions bring everything together under the new theme of transvisuality: the notion of visual as a cultural practice and constant dynamic that knows no representational limits and no framings. In this volume, the visual is seen as dynamic new and nonrepresentational matter – a ‘flesh’ which is researched from the particular vantage points of design of the visual and branding of the visual. In dialogue with radical new theories of the present, non-representational theory and new materialism, design and branding are surveyed from the viewpoint of business research, design studies, cultural studies, and practice – all focused on the visual. Topics covered are fashion blogging, DIY, Junk Space, handmade signage and public spaces in New Delhi, city branding, dance festivals and youtubing, visual branding in China and Multi-Sensory Retrieval Methods.
£109.50
Reaktion Books Dutch Design: A History
Book SynopsisFrom the colourful abstraction of the Rietveld chair to the dry wit of the 'milkbottle lamp' by design cooperative Droog, modern design in the Netherlands has always been a hotbed of experimentation. Dutch designers have consistently pushed to the limits anything from posters to postage-stamps, home furnishings to street signage, ceramics to city airports. Indeed, in the last decade or so, Dutch design has become a worldwide phenomenon, almost a brand in itself, with regular publications in magazines and books promoting the remarkable output of this small country. This book takes an in-depth look not just at designs made in the Netherlands, but behind the works created throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Author Mienke Simon Thomas, a curator at one of Holland's leading museums, provides a compelling thematic account, guiding the reader through the beginnings of crafts education, the debates of design as art, the moral and social ideals of modernism, the new profession of industrial designer, state-sponsored initiatives, and conceptual design objects and 'anti-design'. As she argues, Dutch design seems to have been inspired by the wish to be functional, simple and affordable, but she also reveals how it has simultaneously embraced luxury, decoration and even exclusivity. A much-needed introduction to Dutch designs and their creators as well as the clients who commissioned them and the state initiatives that supported them this book will be essential reading for designers, historians and the general public with an interest in design.Trade Review'Mienke Simon Thomas' engrossing account in this book implies the current lack of design focus reflects a wider malaise; a sense of drift from a clear purpose. Her survey and insights give much for thought about that doughty small country across the sea with which we British have such a particular affinity.' - Architects' Journal 'Historical and critical account of the last 100 years, explaining why this small country is at the forefront of European architecture and product design. Thomas puts this in the context of a country whose wealth was based on trade. A well illustrated and referenced text.' - RIBA Journal 'A hotbed of experimentation, Holland has long been at the forefront of contemporary interior design, from the curious Rietveld chair to the quirky milk bottle lamp by Droog. Recounting the stories behind many of these fascinating pieces, author and museum curator Mienke Simon Thomas reveals all in her most recent must-read. An enlightening guide (and great gift too!) for designers and historians interested in the Netherlands' myriad of intriguing products.' - Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom Magazine 'Mienke Simon Thomas has written a serious and highly involving survey of design in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. Rather than lauding particular achievements of Dutch designers, she has chosen to situate such practice in its social and broader cultural context. She examines the practices of designers and design organizations, taking care to emphasize the importance of the various design academies and the relationship between design and manufacture and, perhaps crucially, the role of the Dutch state in supporting such work through subsidies and commissions.' - Journal of Design History 'This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.' - Wim Crouwel, designer
£24.95
Business Expert Press Greatness in Construction History: Human Stories of Great People and Great Projects
Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader to a journey through times and spaces to live the stories and glories of some eight great projects shaping the world's skyline. It uncovers the secrets of construction greatness through living the project stories first-hand, meeting with the great builders and world leaders behind the projects.The reader will witness the merger of souls into bodies of the newborn buildings, live their lives, and sometimes even their death. The journey begins with the pyramids of ancient history, on to the magic of the middle ages, to the passion of the renaissance era, down to the industrial revolution and modern ages. The book contains PMBOK Guide, Agile, and Design-Build project management reviews, hence good for both project managers and construction history fans, alike. Enjoy!
£29.66
Rutgers University Press Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,
Book SynopsisFashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define themselves as ‘traditional,’ post-millennials are now talking about how they envision a future without gender boundaries and borders. Rather than being defined as a gender, masculinity has now become a style that can be worn and performed as traditional and normative codes of masculinity are modulated and manipulated. This volume includes original essays on musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer “Puff Daddy” Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived. Trade Review"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"Contributors include some of the best minds in their field ... and the book’s 16 chapters are accessible to anyone interested in gender and clothing. ...Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how 'masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed — or abjured.'" -- Derek Guy * Vulture.com & New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForewordChristopher BrewardIntroductionVicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson1 Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender ChangelingVicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor2 Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions?Nigel Lezama3 Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’Michael McMillan4 Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-StylingVlad Strukov5 Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of InstagramJay McCauley Bowstead6 One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance NovelJonathan A. Allan7 The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological MediationAdam Geczy8 The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay CommunityAndrew Reilly9 Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-AustraliaBarry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl10 The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New MillenniumPamela Church Gibson11 “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New MillenniumShaun Cole12 Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and OwnershipBen Barry13 Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the SapeurOlga Vainshtein14 Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of MasculinityVictor Vey15 Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male ConsumerAnne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik16 A Vision of a Modern DandyJulio Mompó with Olga VainshteinAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
£39.95
Rutgers University Press Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,
Book SynopsisFashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define themselves as ‘traditional,’ post-millennials are now talking about how they envision a future without gender boundaries and borders. Rather than being defined as a gender, masculinity has now become a style that can be worn and performed as traditional and normative codes of masculinity are modulated and manipulated. This volume includes original essays on musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer “Puff Daddy” Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived. Trade Review"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"Contributors include some of the best minds in their field ... and the book’s 16 chapters are accessible to anyone interested in gender and clothing. ...Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how 'masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed — or abjured.'" -- Derek Guy * Vulture.com & New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForewordChristopher BrewardIntroductionVicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson1 Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender ChangelingVicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor2 Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions?Nigel Lezama3 Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’Michael McMillan4 Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-StylingVlad Strukov5 Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of InstagramJay McCauley Bowstead6 One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance NovelJonathan A. Allan7 The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological MediationAdam Geczy8 The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay CommunityAndrew Reilly9 Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-AustraliaBarry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl10 The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New MillenniumPamela Church Gibson11 “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New MillenniumShaun Cole12 Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and OwnershipBen Barry13 Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the SapeurOlga Vainshtein14 Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of MasculinityVictor Vey15 Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male ConsumerAnne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik16 A Vision of a Modern DandyJulio Mompó with Olga VainshteinAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
£107.20
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Designing the City of People 4.0: Reflections on
Book SynopsisThis book collects a set of reflections concerning the planning of contemporary cities by urban design, with a special emphasis on some needs and shortcomings emerged during the coronavirus pandemic. With the ultimate goal of designing accessible, inclusive and welcoming green cities, it discusses the urgent need for new systems of public spaces across the city, together with alternative solutions for individual mobility (especially slow mobility) and social interaction. It is intended for a broad readership, including designers, engineers, architects, social scientists, stakeholders, and public administrators, who deal with various aspects of the realization of the City 4.0.Table of ContentsHow Covid-19 has opened our eyes.- How people experience the city.- How people experience their home and the public spaces.- How human languages change.- How to improve our real-world settings.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Industrial Design of Experiments: A Case Study
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides the tools, techniques, and industry examples needed for the successful implementation of design of experiments (DoE) in engineering and manufacturing applications. It contains a high-level engineering analysis of key issues in the design, development, and successful analysis of industrial DoE, focusing on the design aspect of the experiment and then on interpreting the results. Statistical analysis is shown without formula derivation, and readers are directed as to the meaning of each term in the statistical analysis. Industrial Design of Experiments: A Case Study Approach for Design and Process Optimization is designed for graduate-level DoE, engineering design, and general statistical courses, as well as professional education and certification classes. Practicing engineers and managers working in multidisciplinary product development will find it to be an invaluable reference that provides all the information needed to accomplish a successful DoE. Table of Contents1) Presentations, Statistical Distributions, Quality Tools and Relationship to DoE2) Samples and Populations: Statistical Tests for Significance of Mean and Variability3) Regression, Treatments, DoE Design and Modelling Tools. 4) Two-Level Factorial Design and Analysis Techniques5) Three-Level Factorial Design and Analysis Techniques 6) DoE Error Handling, Significance and Goal Setting 7) DoE Reduction Using Confounding and Professional Experience 8) Multiple Level Factorial Design and DoE Sequencing Techniques9) Variability Reduction Techniques and Combining with Mean Analysis 10) Strategies for Multiple Outcome Analysis and Summary of DoE Case Studies and Techniques
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