This is a magnificently illustrated look at the unique world of the designer paper model. Designer toys have been at the forefront of the 'Urban Art' revolution for nearly ten years - since the late 1990s, top designers and artists from across the world have turned their hand to creating unique and instantly collectable toys. One of the most popular forms of designer toy being the paper model. "We Are Paper" is a lavishly illustrated volume that showcases the latest trends in paper toy design, a...
The first comprehensive account of Art Nouveau in Berlin introduces seven artists who shaped Art Nouveau here: Bruno Möhring, Alfred Grenander, Otto Eckmann, Henry van de Velde, August Endell, Theodor Schmuz-Baudiß and Peter Behrens. The second part unfolds a panorama of Art Nouveau works in both public and private spaces, which presented themselves to contemporaries but have largely disappeared today: public and private buildings, transportation buildings, design and furnishings of offices, st...
Eat Sleep Design Gift Notebook for a Product Designer, Medium Ruled Journal
by Useful Occupations Books
A playbook on product-led strategy for software product teams There's a common strategy used by the fastest growing and most successful businesses of our time. These companies are building their entire customer experience around their digital products, delivering software that is simple, intuitive and delightful, and that anticipates and exceeds the evolving needs of users. Product-led organizations make their products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and infl...
The Story of Design, by world-renowned design writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a must-have read for all design students and practitioners and for anyone interested in how our man-made world has been moulded and improved. This is a beautifully illustrated and accessibly written history of the development and evolution of design. A fascinating multi-stranded account that is truly comprehensive in its scope, it introduces the styles, movements, theories, materials, processes, technologies, l...
From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design, interior design, and product design. Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international scholars and practitioners, the book ex...
WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology
by Ian Fawcett, Jacqui Howells, Dan Hughes, Andy Knight, Chris Walker, and Jennifer Tilley
Exam board: WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: Design & TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Reinforce classroom learning and boost students' understanding of all materials with this textbook written for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Design & Technology specification.Written by leading D&T experts, this textbook will build your students' knowledge of the core principles, help to develop their designing and making skills and provide them with the opportunity to make sure they...
Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the most outstanding international architectural firms in the world. With offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, the past 40 years have seen the company develop an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions, airports, museums, cultural centres, spaces for music, and convention centres to offices, private houses and interior design. Fuksas has an international reputation and has...
I love unicorn (Beauty Unicorn on Yellow Sketchbook, #1) (Beauty Unicorn on Pink Sketchbook, #1)
by Cutie Unicorn
The New Munsell Student Color Set
by Associate Professor and Chair Ronald Reed
Now with brand new, easy to use perforated color chip technology, The New Munsell Student Color Set, 6th Edition, is a complete learning package that offers opportunities for experimenting with color effects using paint, paper, and computers. A full-color interactive and experimental guidebook for understanding color in all its dimensions, it includes a full suite of interactive color charts with corresponding color chips, along with a textbook, all designed to facilitate hands-on learning of co...
The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'. It traces the histories, technologies, power relations and contestations around this small but powerful artefact to establish a framework for understanding how design is always enmeshed in the political, and how politics can be understood in terms of material objects. Combining design studies with...
Autodesk Inventor 2018 Black Book (Colored)
by Gaurav Verma and Matt Weber
AQA Level 1/2 Technical Award: Materials Technology
by Roger Smith, Ian Fawcett, and Dan Hughes
Exam Board: AQALevel: KS4Subject: VocationalFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019 Help students build knowledge and practical skills and prepare for assessment with the only textbook tailored to the AQA Level 1/2 Technical Award in Materials Technology.Using clear language, an accessible design and numerous high quality illustrations our author team will guide your students through the subject content to develop an understanding of materials, their working properties and how they...
Meaningful Stuff (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by Jonathan Chapman
An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless junk? In Meaningful Stuff, Jonathan Chapman investigates why we throw away things that still work...