Designing Women's Lives calls for a place-making revolution based on women's culturally nurtured "feeling" sensibility. Women too often have had to repress that sensibility in order to become designers. Now, rather than struggle to fit-in, women can break new ground by using Design Psychology as the foundation for creating emotionally satisfying place. To encourage such a heart/mind shift, the author discusses how she took architecture Gold Medalist Denise Scott Brown and interior design legend...
Screen Interiors
Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, London's queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interiors presents an array of innovative perspectives on film design. Essays address questions related to interiors and objects in film and television from the early 1900s up until the present day. Authors explore how interior film design can facilitate action and amplify tensions, how rooms are employed as structural devices and how designed spaces can...
An Examination of the Practice Through the Years Teaching the history of graphic design cannot simply be outlined by dates nor confined by places, but is defined by concepts and philosophies, as well as those who made, make, and inspire them. Teaching Graphic Design History is the first collection of essays, syllabi, and guides for conveying the heritage of this unique practice, from traditional chronologies to eclectic themes as developed by today's historians, designers, scholars, and docume...
Design lives in everything we do. In supermarket queues, we find design baked into how the cashier tallies our total and the way we pay. In instant messaging apps, design disarms us with emoji, or thoughtfully lets us mute notifications. Every interaction and space we experience was designed in some way. Yet, the design of these experiences is too often seen as the exclusive domain of design wizards and secretive geniuses. But ONG&OG Experience Design Studio believes design is for everyone. Here...
The Richard Niessen - The Palace of Typographic Masonry
by Richard Niessen
Fashion Theory (Fashion Theory, v. 4)
Karen Transberg Hansen: Other People's Clothes? The International Secondhand Clothing Trade and Dress Practices in ZambiaSharon Hepburn: The Cloth of Barbaric Pagans: Tourism, Identity, and Modernity in NepalAnne Boultwood and Robert Jerrard: Ambivalence, and Its Relation to Fashion and the BodyJoanne Entwistle: Fashion and the Fleshy Body: Dress as Embodied PracticeJanice M. Cheddie: A Note: Yinka Shonibare: Dress Tells the Woman's StorySteven Zdatny: Book Review: Good Hair Days; A History of B...
Advertising and Design (Kultur- und Medientheorie)
The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of influence to notions of desire and affirmation. The aim of this publication is not only to take into account the diversity of topics related to advertising, but more importantly, to develop a dialogue between these divergent viewpoints. With contributions by Barbara Aulinger, Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov, Beate Flath, Werner Jauk, Bernhard Kettemann, E...
"The A5 series is intended as a growing archive on graphic design. Each volume introduces outstanding personalities and important themes from the history of international graphic design, with numerous illustrations, essays and interviews. A5 is a cooperation between the labor visuell in the desgin department at the Fachhochschule Dusseldorf and Lars Muller Publishers." For more than 30 years, designer Celestino Piatti endowed the covers of books published by dtv with a singular look. With more t...
Cracking the Whip is a collection of 69 essays that looks at just about everything in design: clothes, hardware, posters, cars, airports, chairs, lighting, vending machines, cities and bathrooms. They are about how we use design, language and instinct to navigate our everyday world from eating, relating to others, maintaining traditions and advancing our causes. Previously published in distinguished forums ranging from ID Magazine, Print, and Interior Design to The New Yorker, The New York Times...
Situated Design Methods (Design Thinking, Design Theory) (Situated Design Methods)
A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to developing interactive installations.All design is situated—carried out from an embedded position. Design involves many participants and encompasses a range of interactions and interdependencies among designers, designs, design methods, and users. Design is also multidisciplinary, extending beyond the traditional design professions into such domains as...
Form 241 (Zeitschrift Form, #241)
"Form" has been one of Europe's leading design journals since 1957. Together with its special issues and the website, the magazine offers product designers in-depth coverage of new design trends, materials, and production techniques, with special attention to design processes ('the making of' ). Graphic, corporate, and web designers appreciate "Form" for its articles on current trends in type design, color, and illustration. The "Form Poster Edition" and its many high quality reproductions have...
The lives and work of diverse unsung heroes of design gathered in smart new book. Familiar histories of graphic design have placed women in the margins, their work unworthy of discussion and preservation. The good news is that with a little digging, we are confirming that women of many backgrounds and ethnicities have long been active in the profession: running presses in the British colonies, illustrating books in the studios of artistically cutting-edge Harlem, and drawing type in the draftin...