Design and llustration Books

Book SynopsisA timely collection that shows how design can animate public space and catalyze democratic processes through vital discussion and public engagement.?Design thinking? emphasizes the production of solutions after a period of research. By contrast, interrogative design focuses on activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of questions. A notable contribution to the fields of critical design and media art, interrogative design traces its development to Krzysztof Wodiczko and his 1990s public art projects, documented in the book Critical Vehicles. In Interrogative Design, Ian Wojtowicz showcases this lineage with new writing from Wodiczko and a host of contributions from diverse and influential practitioners, including Rosalyn Deutsche and Antoni Muntadas. This book highlights the dynamism of interrogative design as it is practiced today.Never has the need for work that provokes thoughtful discourse been more necessary, and this volume catalogs both the need and potential viable techniques. A consolidated collection on the legacy and the vital currency of interrogative design, this volume will delight practitioners with new material and serve students as a practical handbook.Contributors also include: Dora Apel, Dan Borelli, Harrell Fletcher, Pete Ho Ching Fung, Dana Gordon, Sara Hendren, Garnet Hertz, Sohin Hwang, Ekene Ijeoma, Marisa Morán Jahn, Mark Jarzombek, Jaekyung Jung, Sung Ho Kim, Jean-Baptiste Labrune, Pia Lindman, Ani Liu, Andrew Todd Marcus, Matthew Mazzotta, Alex Milton, Max Mollon, Mariana Morais, Antoni Muntadas, Gauri Nagpal, Maria Niro, Ginger Nolan, Robert Ochshorn, Adam Ostolski, Sofia Ponte, Gustavo Romeiro, Natalia Romik, Warren Sack, Kirk Savage, Nitin Sawhney, Sanjit Sethi, Samein Shamsher, James Shen, Carl Solander, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Orkan Telhan, Bruce M. Tharp, Stephanie M. Tharp, Zenovia Toloudi, Marek Wasilewski, Lani Watson, Sampson Wong, and Ben Wood.

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Book SynopsisA pioneer in interaction design tells the stories of designers who changed the way people use everyday things in the digital era, interviewing the founders of Google, the creator of The Sims, the inventors and developers of the mouse and the desktop, and many others.Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he intervi

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Book SynopsisHybrid Drawing Techniques: Design Process and Presentation reaffirms the value of traditional hand drawing in the design process by demonstrating how to integrate it with digital techniques; enhancing and streamlining the investigative process while at the same time yielding superior presentation images. This book is a foundations guide to both approaches: sketching, hardline drawing, perspective drawing, digital applications, and Adobe Photoshop; providing stepbystep demonstrations and examples from a variety of professional and student work for using and combining traditional and digital tools. Also included are sections addressing strategies for using color, composition and light to further enhance one's drawings. An eResource offers copyright free images for download that includes: tonal patterns, watercolor fields, people, trees, and skies.Trade Review‘Gorski conducts a masterclass in situating digital and analog methods of drawing in this richly illustrated paean to the art of representation in contemporary times. From the scratch of a pen to the click of a mouse, this book teaches not only proven technique but strategic thinking about the new ways of rendering the image. This is a must-have manual for all those wrestling with the transformative role of hand drawing in a digital age.’ – Gil Snyder, Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA'Gilbert Gorski's pioneering work in combining traditional and digital media, elucidated in this timely and important book, places him at the forefront of contemporary visualization.' - Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA, Principal, Interface Architects, New Mexico, USA'One of the finest architectural illustrators practicing today, Gilbert Gorski commands an exceptional talent for creating beautiful, powerful, and enlightening images. And he is a pathfinder. In your hands, you hold a brilliantly drawn map, a dedicated course, designed to empower digital innovation to evoke the sublime—building on the best of the old masters.' - Henry E. Sorenson, Jr., Professor, School of Architecture, Montana State University, USA'With the keen sense of the artistic genius, Gorski uninhibitedly and passionately mates hand-drawn architectural drawing with the boundless possibilities of computer generated methods, resourcefully proving what interdisciplinary stands for. With this simple, yet fundamental, credo this volume is a standard reference for all students of architectural representation.' - Sergei Tchoban, Architekt BDA, Germany'Gilbert Gorski presents an invaluable treatise acknowledging that great architecture is inextricable to a mastery of techné invoked in multiple delineation processes of great design. That is to say, because what we draw is in fact what we build – how we draw becomes a critical modality of aesthetic intelligence implicit to the way by which great design is crafted, evaluated and made. I believe masterful drawing is our most useful tool in building well once again.' - Duncan McRoberts, Principal, Duncan McRoberts Associates, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Architecture in the Age of Digitalism 1. Getting Started 2. Traditional Drawing Techniques 3. Perspective Drawing 4. Digital Scanning Techniques 5. Digital Coloring 6. Hybrid Coloring Techniques 7. Process: Hybrid Design Techniques 8. Light and Shadow 9. Composition Strategies 10. Color Strategies 11. Collection of Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis survey of Islamic glass is based on the al-Sabah collection in Kuwait. The work provides close attention to 250 of the glass objects while the remainder are described without discussion. Objects are included from the late 6th century to the 19th century.Trade Review'Likely to become the key text on this subject … essential reading for scholars of Islamic art' - Reference Reviews'A remarkable publication … clear and informative' - Antiques DiaryTable of ContentsPreface by Shaikha Hussah al-Sabah Introduction Chapter 1: A Transitional Period: The Legacy of Roman and Sasanian Glass (c. late 6th-early 10th century) Chapter 2: The Early Period (c. late 7th-11th century): Stained Glass; Glass with Cut Decoration Chapter 3: Continuity Over Time: Undecorated Glass; Glass with Applied Decoration; Glass with Mould-Blown Patterns; Glass with Impressed Patterns; Glass with Mavered Trails Chapter 4: The Era of Great Enamelled and Gilded Glass (c. 13-14th century) Chapter 5: The Revival of Glass in the Islamic World: The European Connection (c. 17-19th century) Appendix: Table of Concordance of Inventory Numbers and Catalogue Numbers Bibliography - Index

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