Individual designers Books
Birkhauser Grafikdesign unterrichten
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£35.15
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH Nutzen statt Besitzen
£32.40
Triest Verlag Impact Type
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£24.65
Scheidegger & Spiess Schweizer Grand Prix Design 2025
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£29.75
Merian, Christoph Verlag Im Besengebiet Field of Brooms
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£31.20
Merian, Christoph Verlag Thomas Ott From Scratch
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£24.65
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Folds
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£22.50
König, Walther Camper 50
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£28.50
König, Walther Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz 19201980
£33.75
Taschen GmbH Modedesigner AZ. 40th Ed.
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£22.50
Christoph Merian Verlag Living Wunderkammer
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£51.56
Arnoldsche Babetto: The Entity of Being / L’Entità
Book SynopsisThe Italian goldsmith of the “Paduan School” Giampaolo Babetto is famous for his jewellery – geometrically distinct shapes arranged into refined entities of extraordinary perfection and beauty. However, the artist’s wide-ranging spectrum also includes furniture design, silverwork, sculptures, liturgical utensils, and architecture; even his design drawings possess an autonomous character and artistic value. In addition to Christian iconography, his sources of inspiration include the fresco cycles of Renaissance artist Jacopo da Pontormo but also echo Minimalism, Neoplasticism, Neoconstructivism, and “arte programmata/cinetica.” The Entity of Being presents the first overarching survey of the virtuoso Babetto. The comprehensive catalogue section is complemented by four contributions that provide exciting insights into the work of this universal artist. Text in English, German and Italian.
£43.20
Arnoldsche Daniel Kruger: Jewellery – The unexpected meaning
Book SynopsisDaniel Kruger’s (b. 1951) new monograph Jewellery – The unexpected meaning of curious things presents his jewellery art of the last ten years. Kruger, who grew up in South Africa, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and taught at the University of Art and Design at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. He gives things an unexpected meaning. Inspired by movement and his fascination with the visual quality of materials and objects, shapes, and colours, he creates a synthesis of supposed opposites, and it is this new context that elevates these connections into something precious. Through his freedom of thought, he creates a world of objects to be contemplated, but above all to adorn the body and the human being. Text in English and German.
£33.60
Arnoldsche Gabi Dziuba Friends
Book SynopsisGabi Dziuba's jewellery is stringent, laid-back, fragile, minimalist, glamorous, and progressive. Blister packs, coins, beans, or letters are turned into wilful creations. Collaboration with close artist associates is characteristic of her work, including those with Günther Förg, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Monika Baer, and Alexandra Bircken, whose works are included in this monograph. This highlights the openness of Dziuba's artistic approach to new trend Pop Art, Minimal Art, punk, fashion. A fascinating biography results in which the visual artist, musician, designer, and entrepreneur has freely experimented with the traditional assignment of roles since the 1970s.Gabi Dziuba & Friends is a vivid survey of her extraordinary working methods and the exhibition activities in her Berlin studio.Text in English and German.
£33.60
Hochparterre AG Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2024
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£27.20
Strzelecki Books Marta KuhnWeber Puppets Pop Poetry
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£29.20
Favoritenpresse Modern Cyclists
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£17.10
Favoritenpresse V für Victory V for Victory
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£13.30
JOVIS Verlag Convivial Ground: Stories from Collaborative
Book SynopsisWe are all improvising. We are all making decisions. And we are all watching each other improvise. Together, we are improvising. Decisions become shared ones. We will have built this city together. Convivial Ground invites the reader to discover the work of the transdisciplinary European design-build network Constructlab piece by piece. Taking Ivan Illich’s understanding of conviviality as departure point, the essays, conversations, stories, and images in the book reflect on the specificities of collaborative practices as situated experiments, as well as on their possible roles in the creation of convivial societies. Exploring contemporary conditions of togetherness, learning, and working, the book is not a "how-to" guide, but an invitation to cooperatively write new convivial narratives.
£25.20
Strandberg Publishing The Joining of the Arts: Danish Art and Design
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£60.00
Skira H: Hangar Design Group: as I told you before
Book SynopsisThe hidden soul of a group of creative individuals which, since the beginning, has always expressed itself in images. As I told you before, Ideas not Airships is a 500-page table book celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Hangar Design Group, one of the first independent and multidisciplinary creative design groups in Italy. The book is a narrative in pictures representing an attempt to discover an underlying theme in the intricate creative process of a group that is unique from the point of view both of its degree of expertise and its creative practices. Through works and experiences the book illustrates the life of the studio, tracing a decidedly unconventional figurative path made up of suggestions, inspirations, memories, faces and places – not only those of the Hangar Design Group itself but of anyone who undertakes to give form to an idea. The book illustrates the network’s modus operandi. It begins from the birth of the first embryonic concepts and follows through to the finished product. As I told you before, Ideas not Airships is the enthusiastic narration of a gripping story, and is dedicated to all those who believe that with creativity we can (even) change the world.
£21.60
Skira Fredrikson Stallard: Works
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£46.40
Mondadori Electa The Cappellini Method: A Performing Dream
Book SynopsisThe book delves into the fascinating world of the Milan-based designer, who transformed his family-owned business into one of the world's most celebrated purveyors of modern decor. Presented in a dictionary-like format, each letter offers an opportunity to discover Cappellini's astounding oeuvre and myriad inspirations. The book is a collection of Cappellini's private memories, extraordinary encounters, design objects, exhibitions, methods, and innovative ideas. The unusual structure of the volume allows readers to arrive at their own interpretations.
£27.62
Mondadori Electa Carlo Colombo Industrial Design: I Never Sleep
Book SynopsisCarlo Colombo was born in Brianza, the land of the greatest Italian furniture companies and home to several key figures of contemporary design. Having graduated with a degree in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, his career has grown with great intensity and success, including his iconic pieces such as the Minerva chairs or the Bali armchairs, the award-winning Albume washbasins, and the Sveva sofa. This book recounts the multifaceted universe of a designer poised between passion and rationality. It draws on a selection of his most significant design products, his methodology, creative inputs and collaborations with protagonists from the business and finance worlds, as well as enlightened clients and artists.
£51.20
BIS Publishers B.V. CO LAB: Collaborative Design Survey
Book SynopsisThe object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques and practices that apply to studio work and forward-thinking education initiatives. There will be three main sections with 10-20 short-burst chapters in each, befitting the collection/handbook format.
£25.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Dutch Design Cowboys
Book SynopsisStudio Kluif, the award-winning and internationally renowned Dutch design studio never ceases to amaze with their magical and attractive designs.Ranging from graphic design, illustration, packaging and design for fashion, this 176- page book is packed with new creative projects.
£15.29
Valiz Jurriaan Schrofer (1926-1990)
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£38.00
New Heroes & Pioneers Currents: Contemporary Pacific Northwest Design
Book SynopsisThe book explores the design boom in the Pacific Northwest, the fundamental principles to this creative field and over 40 remarkable makers and designers behind this extraordinary area of design. Set against striking photography, the book navigates the landscape and settings which inspires this area and talks with leading designers in the industry. The Pacific Northwest is paving a new path in the design world with a rich and varied set of designers producing outstanding pieces and trends. IDS Vancouver is the centre-point for all things design in the Pacific Northwest and we are pleased to present their first book. Including contributions from ANDlight, Base Modern, Niels Bendtsen, Bosque Design, Becki Chan, Pat Christie, Brent Comber, Electric Coffin, Dahlhaus Studio, Fieldwork, fruitsuper, The Granite, Phil Gray, Hinterland Design, John Hogan, Shawn Hunt, Jeff Martin Joinery, Knauf and Brown, Karen Konzuk, Merkled Studio, molo, Darin Montgomery, PHLOEM STUDIO, Pigeon Toe, Shawn Place, Charlotte Pommet and Elliot Kendall, Propellor, Selek, Sholto Design Studio, Studio Gorm, Cathy Terepocki and Annie Tung. About IDS Vancouver Founded in 2004 by Jason Heard, IDS Vancouver has grown in size and in ambition at equal pace with the city it is so proud to support. Taking place once a year in September the IDS Vancouver design fair has grown to include diverse programing and workshops for youth, for students and for the design trade as well as collaborative installations and experiences both off site and on. Drawing attention to the region as a heavy hitting design destination, IDS Vancouver actively engages with and participates at other international fairs all year long as a way to profile the talent of the region and to source and stay informed with design internationally.
£29.75
Lannoo Publishers Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections: KRISVANASSCHE,
Book Synopsis"...enriched not only by an introduction by the fashion author Anders Christian Madsen, but also by countless anecdotes and stories from friends, artists and collaborators who contributed to the achievement of Van Assche's great successes." — GQ Italia "Squeezing two small decades worth of era-defining elegance into one book is no small feat. Just ask Kris Van Assche, who has spent the past year scrupulously archiving his life's work." — i-D "Fashion is my life. I see many ways to return", the Belgian creative, former head of Dior homme and Berluti, tells MFF. Who this evening in Paris presents the volume 55 collections, which retraces almost 20 years of his career" — Milano Finaza & M le Monde "How Kris van Assche helped invent the modern man." — The Face Press Embracing 20 years in fashion as a designer and Creative Director at Dior Homme, Berluti and his namesake label, Kris Van Assche reflects on his output: 55 collections, manifold collaborations with renowned artists and a constant oeuvre that conveys his identity. Designed by the illustrious art directors M/M (Paris), Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections is a visual compendium, gathered in a complete chronology.Trade Review"From his namesake label's debut, to his tenures at Dior and Berluti, '55 Collections' canvasses the Belgian designer's sensational career." - Document Journal"The Belgian designer lifts the veil on his personal life, and the enduring influences on his "Belgian realism.'" - WWD"...enriched not only by an introduction by the fashion author Anders Christian Madsen, but also by countless anecdotes and stories from friends, artists and collaborators who contributed to the achievement of Van Assche's great successes." - GQ Italia"Squeezing two small decades worth of era-defining elegance into one book is no small feat. Just ask Kris Van Assche, who has spent the past year scrupulously archiving his life's work." - i-D"Fashion is my life. I see many ways to return", the Belgian creative, former head of Dior homme and Berluti, tells MFF. Who this evening in Paris presents the volume 55 collections, which retraces almost 20 years of his career" - Milano Finaza & M le Monde"The brand has left countless classic looks in the field of men's clothing design." - Modern Weekly China"In his new book, titled straightforwardly Kris van Assche: 55 collections, the Belgian creator presents a rich archive of his work across his namesake label and his tenures as a creative director for heritage houses of Dior Homme and Berluti." - Behind the Blinds"How Kris van Assche helped invent the modern man." - The Face Press"Belgian designer Van Assche in his first monograph, which showcases 55 of his collections for Dior, Berluti, and his own label." - Financial Times"Kris Van Assche has always had a strong sense of knowing his design language." - Perfect Magazine"The most important moments in the career of Belgian designer Kris Van Assche are collected in his first monographic book." - L'Officiel Italy"A coffee table book traces the career of the Belgian designer, from Dior Homme to Berluti. We interviewed him, and during the dialogue started by an esthete grandmother…" - D la Repubblica Magazine"From the outset, it's evident that "55 Collections" is more than a mere retrospective—it's a testament to Van Assche's influence on the fashion landscape." - Esquire Singapore"The resulting tome, Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections, is not just a magnificent retrospective of the designer’s contribution to fashion, but an open “creative psychoanalysis” as he ventures down memory lane." - Another Magazine"The visual compendium, crafted by illustrious art directors M/M (Paris), chronicles 55 collections and collaborations, with his unique perspective on and off the runway." - Robb Report Singapore"Fashion designer Kris Van Assche has remarkable career and collaboration with brands Dior and Berlutti. His experiences are summarized in a new book." - Vogue Czechoslovakia"From Dior Homme to Berluti via his brand KVA, the designer has reinvented masculinity." - Le Point"In the upcoming book "Kris Van Assche 55 collections", Van Assche...invites readers to review with himself those precious moments when he devoted himself to fashion and art." - Vogue China"For the first time in his life, Kris Van Assche immersed himself in his archives, opened each box, explored each hard drive, leafed through each magazine or catalog in which his creations appear. What emerges is a chronological work of more than 400 pages where texts from friends and collaborators of the Belgian designer intersect, alongside photographs of fashion shows, campaigns and even photoshoots with Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and even the artist Cindy Sherman." - Numéro"A testimony of the evolution of fashion male for twenty years." - Le Figaro"Kris Van Assche: meet the Fashion Designer ahead of his time." - Vogue Arabia
£67.15
MER Paper Kunsthalle Mina Wu: Het Plateel
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£23.75
Yale University Press Konstantin Grcic Decisive Design AD Art Institute
Book SynopsisAccompanies the first exhibition in North America of Grcic's work, highlighting the innovative archetypes of form and concept that have marked his remarkable output since 2004.
£12.99
Yale University Press Tastemaker
Book SynopsisA riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor's profound influence on mid-century American tasteTrade ReviewFinalist for the 2018 Modernist Studies Association Book PrizeWinner of the 2019 SESAH Publication Awards, sponsored by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians“This book is extremely important and timely. The intelligence and seriousness with which it frames questions about taste and modernism will move the conversation forward. It is a game changer in both architectural history and design studies.”—Alice Friedman, Wellesley College
£52.25
Stanford University Press New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
Book SynopsisIn this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This book is to be recommended for its scholarship and the manner in which it situates Fuller in terms of past and present and cultural history."Barbara Opar, Art Libraries Society of North America."Buckminster Fuller was one of the 20th Century's greatest philosophers regarding human intention, anticipation and design. His ideas wereboundless in scope and fearless in aspiration and have affected human thinking from the level of the molecule to the galaxies. This collection offers new glimpses into his universe of interests." —William McDonough, Fellow, American Institute of Architects
£77.35
Stanford University Press New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
Book SynopsisIn this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This book is to be recommended for its scholarship and the manner in which it situates Fuller in terms of past and present and cultural history."Barbara Opar, Art Libraries Society of North America."Buckminster Fuller was one of the 20th Century's greatest philosophers regarding human intention, anticipation and design. His ideas wereboundless in scope and fearless in aspiration and have affected human thinking from the level of the molecule to the galaxies. This collection offers new glimpses into his universe of interests." —William McDonough, Fellow, American Institute of Architects
£19.79
Grolier Club of New York The Proper Decoration of Book Covers The Life
Book SynopsisAlice C Morse (1863-1961) was a prolific and versatile designer during the heyday of the American Decorative Arts Movement. Though her fame has waned since the early twentieth century, her work may be familiar to admirers of artist-designed publishers' bindings of the period 1890-1910. This book documents the life and work of Morse.Trade Review"[It] will be an invaluable reference tool and is likely to set a standard for future studies of designer American publishers' bindings - if only we had similar information available for the work of Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Armstrong!" - Michael Winship, Professor of English, at the University of Texas at Austin"
£26.60
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Materials of Service Design
Book SynopsisIf Design is about forming materials, then what are the materials of Service Design? In this ground-breaking book, Johan Blomkvist, Simon Clatworthy and Stefan Holmlid explore this question by establishing a discourse around the materials of service design, discussing materials as a means to study what service design is and could be.Exploring the contours and foundations of the field, this innovative book redefines the material and opens with an investigation of how service has been understood as a material in design. With insights from expert practitioners in the field, chapters then examine a vast library of materials, including social structures, touch-points, thinking, culture, time, organisations, conversations, data, human bodies and more. Making sense of this material mix, the book delves into the material of the immaterial and displays the diversified and expansive field of service design today. In doing so, it forms a starting point to go beyond reductionist ideas of the material-immaterial dichotomy and makes room for new constructivist perspectives.Contributing to the development of education within service design, this insightful book will be invaluable for practitioners and course leaders looking to navigate a new path to service design. Founded in design as a knowledge intensive practice, it will also be transformative for the research of students and scholars of marketing, service design, design theory, and innovation studies.Trade Review‘Fundamentally, designers should understand the materials with which they work, how they fit together and interact. The Materials of Service Design is at once rigorous, readable and practically applicable. It is essential reading for anyone working in the field, valuable to practitioners and academics alike.’ -- Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach‘Finally demystified, with rigor and clarity! This book offers the most crystalized and designerly understanding of the persistent question around Service Design, “what to design with and for”. This book will redefine what you think you know about Service Design and bring new dimensions to disciplinary and professional identities and educational visions of Service Design. A must-read for anyone who wishes to do Service Design rightly.’ -- Jung Joo Lee, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix Prologue: defining material xiii Part 1 Introduction: something made the object of study 1 The move away from matter in art and design 2 The core of design is in the making 3 Representations in service design 4 Service as material 5 Cultural bodies empowered to perform services: a critical perspective Part 2 The constituents of which something is composed 1 Introduction to a library of materials 2 Social structures 3 Touch-points as a material 4 Thinking: an underexplored service design material 5 Culture as a material Interlude 1: Materiality in design from a practitioner perspective: interview with Markus Edgar Hormeß, Adam Lawrence and Marc Stickdorn (26 April 2022) 6 Time, timing, time-ing 7 Organisations as material 8 Conversations as a service design material 9 Ritual: meaningful material for service design 10 Certainty and its artefacts Interlude 2: Expertise as material of service design: interview with Lavrans Løvlie (2 December 2021) 11 Collaborations 12 Behaviour as service design material 13 Experience as a material 14 Data matter: as data become matter, design matters 15 Clay: a tangible catalyst Interlude 3: Data as material of services 16 Human bodies 17 Sound 18 The service offering as a material 19 Policy, governance Part 3 Qualities by which something may be categorised 1 Making sense of a material mix 2 Categorisation of materials as a way of understanding their characteristics 3 Addressing the material mix: service as hypermaterial 4 Layered materials and layered materiality 5 A move towards a framework for materials Part 4 A performer’s repertoire (the service designer’s material) 1 Aesthetics in service design 2 Service phantasms 3 Service and design as bricolage and rhizomes 4 Returning to the foundational question Index
£105.00
Reaktion Books Coco Chanel
Book SynopsisTo call Coco Chanel a fashion designer hardly captures her social and cultural significance. An iconoclastic entrepreneur, she rebelled against and manipulated gender expectations of her time. With her famous little black dress, her loose jersey sweaters belted jauntily at the waist, her svelte unadorned gowns, Chanel changed women's silhouettes, and she became known as a champion of women's freedom. Chanel, legend has it, changed not only the shape of clothing, but the narrative of women's lives. From 1913, when she first opened a hat shop in the resort town of Deauville, until her death in 1971, Chanel sold more than clothing, accessories and the phenomenally successful perfume, Chanel No. 5: she sold a myth that became as attractive for many women as her coveted outfits. Linda Simon teases apart that myth that Chanel and her public collaborated to create, to explore its contradictions: a self-proclaimed recluse who emerged as one of the most spectacular personalities of her time; a brilliant businesswoman who signed away ninety percent of her company; a genius who claimed she was nothing more than an artisan. She examines the world Chanel both reflected and shaped, setting her life and work in a broad context of women's history in France and America, from before the First World War up through the profound social changes of the late 1960s. Drawing upon rich archival sources, Simon provides a lively, clear-eyed biography of a woman whose influence and legend transcend the world of fashion.Trade Review'For those who want an up-to-date bio that's swift and savvy, there is Linda Simon's Chanel. It's a slim volume, but even here we get details we don't get elsewhere, including a full chapter on the musical "Coco," which opened on Broadway in 1969 starring Katharine Hepburn (tellingly, Chanel's first choice for the role was the much younger Hepburn: Audrey).' - Wall Street Journal
£15.79
Harvard Graduate School of Design Beyond Surface Appeal: Literalism, Sensibilities,
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£19.76
Lars Muller Publishers Renny Ramakers Rethinking Design-Curator of
Book SynopsisRenny Ramakers is realizing projects that combine virtual technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop new social relations. For more than three decades, the Dutch art historian, critic, and curator has been changing the nature and purpose of design. As co-founder of the Droog Design collective, she has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as a rethinking of today's world. When Droog first exhibited at the Milan furniture fair in 1993, its assemblies of found materials and witty forms instantly changed the landscape of design. Since then, Ramakers has worked with makers and creators to move beyond slick objects and towards critical projects that open our eyes to our multifaceted realities while offering easy access and great joy to users.
£24.30
de Gruyter Bunte Möbel Der Oberlausitz
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£126.64
Promopress Candela Cort
Book SynopsisThe original and creative universe of the artist and designer Candela Cort is visually summarized in the pages of this book. A sample of his hats, necklaces, headdresses, collages, bracelets and collars that she builds from x-rays, corrugated cardboard, brass wire, ribbons, elastic rubber, plastic or buttons. Every object is unique and inspired by everyday life. All in them is exceptional, daring and, at the same time, subtle, delicate and ethereal.
£38.46
Taylor & Francis Craftwork as Problem Solving
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£36.99
MIT Press Ltd An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures
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£63.00
MIT Press Ltd Pretense Design Surface Over Substance Design
Book SynopsisHow some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them.After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applicat
£25.50
MIT Press Value Sensitive Design Shaping Technology with
Book SynopsisUsing our moral and technical imaginations to create responsible innovations: theory, method, and applications for value sensitive design.Implantable medical devices and human dignity. Private and secure access to information. Engineering projects that transform the Earth. Multigenerational information systems for international justice. How should designers, engineers, architects, policy makers, and others design such technology? Who should be involved and what values are implicated? In Value Sensitive Design, Batya Friedman and David Hendry describe how both moral and technical imagination can be brought to bear on the design of technology. With value sensitive design, under development for more than two decades, Friedman and Hendry bring together theory, methods, and applications for a design process that engages human values at every stage.After presenting the theoretical foundations of value sensitive design, which lead to a deep rethinking of technical desi
£38.00
MIT Press Ltd Material and Mind The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of the interaction between mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and making—in design, the arts, culture, and science.In Material and Mind, Christopher Bardt delves deeply into the interaction of mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and the process of making. He examines thought not as something “pure” and autonomous but as emerging from working with material, and he identifies this as the source of imagination and creative insight. This takes place as much in such disciplines as cognitive science, anthropology, and poetry as it does in the more obvious painting, sculpture, and design. In some fields, the medium of work is, in fact, the very medium of thinking—as fabric is for the tailor. Drawing on the philosophical notions of the “extended mind” and the “enactive mind,” and looking beyond the world of material-based arts, Bardt investigates the realms in wh
£27.20
MIT Press Ltd Industrial Strength Design How Brooks Stevens
Book SynopsisThe first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth-century designers.Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World is a long overdue introduction to the work of visionary industrial designer Brooks Stevens (1911-1995). Believing that an industrial designer should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order, Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products—including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. (There's nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener, he explained.) He invented a precursor to the SUV by turning a Jeep into a station wagon after World War II, and streamlined steam irons so that they resembled aircraft. It was Brooks Stevens who, in 1954, coined the phrase planned obsolescence, defining it as instilling in the buyer the desire to own somet
£24.70
MIT Press Overgrown Practices between Landscape
Book SynopsisA call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson.As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and
£30.60
