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Design: The Invention of DesireA compelling defense for the importance of design and how it shapes our behavior, our emotions, and our lives Design has always prided itself on being relevant to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small community of...
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René Lalique: Enchanted by GlassA visually stunning and informative survey of Lalique's glasswork that includes hundreds of exquisite pieces and related archival material René Lalique, a master artist and designer of early 20th-century France, initially achieved fame for his jewelry creations that were widely admired and collected. He...
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Jewels by JarCalled "the Fabergé of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious...
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Handbags: The Making of a MuseumAn exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production The history of the handbag--its design, how it has been made, used, and worn--reveals something essential about women's lives over the past 500 years. Perhaps the most...
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Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and EngineersFor researchers in all disciplines, this book offers a practical, hands-on course in communicating scientific findings and concepts through visual graphics Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear...
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Thomas Hope: Regency DesignerThe son of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent and started to assemble the remarkable art collection...
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Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable FutureA must-have for professionals focused on innovation in design, Radical Matter presents the ten "Big Ideas" that will shape and inform the choices of materials, design methods, and manufacturing processes made by designers in the years to come.This timely paperback edition includes the same...
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The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond IntelligenceThe first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible...
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Design Meets DisabilityHow design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also...
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Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your WorldThe 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...
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by DesignHow organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's...
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Design Research: Methods and PerspectivesHow the tools of design research can involve designers more directly with objects, products and services they design; from human-centered research methods to formal experimentation, process models, and application to real world design problems.The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers...
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The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the MuseAn investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history--as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design, and architect's muse.For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as...
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Material and MindAn 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...
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Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction DesignInteraction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with technology are about...
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Muriel CooperThe career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface; generously illustrated in color.Muriel Cooper (1925-1994) was the pioneering designer who created the iconic MIT Press colophon (or logo)--seven bars that represent the lowercase letters "mitp"...
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What WorksIn Designing for Growth: A Manager's Toolkit, Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie provided managers with guidance on using design as a powerful tool to boost the innovation needed to grow profitable businesses. This new book emphasizes the relevance of design thinking to business outcomes...
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Discovering Design: Explorations in Design StudiesDiscovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor of the journal Design Issues, and Richard...
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Latex: A Document Preparation SystemThis authoritative user's guide and reference manual for the LATEX computer typesetting system has been revised to document features available in the standard software release LATEX 2e. These features include additional styles and functions, improved font handling and enhanced graphics capabilities. Other parts of...
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Computers & Typesetting, Volume C: The Metafont BookAuthor: Donald E. KnuthPublisher: Addison-Wesley ProfessionalPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 384Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 9.58h x 7.78w x 0.90dISBN: 9780201134452About the AuthorDonald E. Knuth is known throughout the world for his pioneering work on algorithms and programming techniques, for his invention of the Tex and Metafont systems...
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