Design - Essays

Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a...

Essays and interviews on the precarious life of designed objectsOnce an object of graphic design leaves the designer's computer, it enters an unpredictable and precarious existence in the world. Posters, packaging and flyers may be ripped from walls, littered on streets or left to...

A revelatory and nuanced history of the BauhausDealing with the hundred year history of the Bauhaus, this book is framed by two material concepts: dust & data. While dust foregrounds new approaches to the material analysis of objects and ruins, data designates new approaches...

A quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.Author: Leonard KorenISBN-10: 0981484670ISBN-13: 9780981484679Publisher: Imperfect PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2020Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x...

Noted critic's 25 art-related essays explore relationships between ancient and modern art and between art and life. Also includes Fry's "Essay in Aesthetics." 13 black-and-white illustrations.Author: Roger FryISBN-10: 0486400875ISBN-13: 9780486400877Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2011Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.44w x 0.61d

Why today's complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking--one in which art, technology, and science converge. Today's complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking--one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. Creativity...

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...

Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows in the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal...

Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic Views What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural...

Cultural meditations on kitchen design, in an elegantly produced volumeSummarizing contemporary discourses on the kitchen from the realms of sociology, design and gastrosophy, Essays on Kitchens features six kitchens designed by the German-Austrian design studio chmara.rosinke. The project examines different facets of the kitchen:...

How can a heavy cherry wood desk tell a story of exile and migration? Walter Gropius' writing desk was designed as part of a collective furniture ensemble for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the desk moved with it,...

The Bauhaus Journal, now published in this gorgeous facsimile, is the ultimate testimony to the school's diversity and impactOne hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, it's time to revisit Bauhaus, the school's journal, as a crucial testimony of this iconic moment in...

The fifth installation in the Bauhausb?her facsimile series, revisiting Piet Mondrian's influential essays on art theoryAlthough Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Mondrian, cofounder of the De Stijl...

The field of robotics is coming of age. Robotics and artificial intelligence represent the next cutting edge technology to transform the fields of architecture and design.Author: Mahesh DaasISBN-10: 1939621631ISBN-13: 9781939621634Publisher: Applied Research & DesignLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.20lbsSize: 9.10h x 9.20w x 1.20d

In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given feature of our communication systems. But how do we...

How designers are collaborating with scientists and ultimately with nature itselfDesigners today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Although humans are intrinsically linked to nature, our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider...

On the constraints of systems in designIn graphic design, the concept of systems is profoundly rooted in form. Starting from a series of design research residencies in the context of the Porto Design Biennale, this volume proposes a variety of social and political perspectives...

A collection of quotations by and about William Morris, exploring his passionately held view that beautiful, functional design should be accessible to allWilliam Morris (1834-1896) was a radical thinker whose democratic vision for society and art has continued to influence designers, artists and writers...

Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues...

The name "Suzanne Perron" is synonymous with exquisite detail. Her expertly tailored gowns -- worn at the elaborate balls of Mardi Gras and down the aisle at New Orleans weddings -- draw from the legacy of couture design. After years working alongside Vera Wang,...

Exploring how design educators deploy the idea of the "radical"This book argues that, over the past 15 years, there has been a consistent deterioration of democracy in tandem with the establishment of the marketization and monetization of design education. Navigating difficult external political contexts...

Author: Steven Heller, V駻onique VienneISBN-10: 1581152655ISBN-13: 9781581152654Publisher: AllworthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2003Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.06h x 6.08w x 0.65d

In Looking Beyond the Structure, architect Dan Bucsescu and philosopher Michael Eng record their conversations about the relationship of the built environment and other forms of design to the culture in which they are created. The authors exchange their interpretations of selected readings about...

A compilation of diverse studies in the underlying designs and principles behind the Arts and Sciences, taken from an Artists perspective on the world he studies. A book where Art, Engineering and the ancient world meet. Highly illustrated, with artwork, numeric tables, geometries, designs...

Floppy Logic is an exploration into the 'architecture' of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differently. A key concept here is the Floppy, defined...

An imaginary institution merging research with graphic-design experiments to create a new theory of typographyThe Palace of Typographic Masonry, an institute dedicated to the wealth and diversity of graphic languages from Arabic to Zapotec, is the brainchild of Dutch graphic designer Richard Niessen (born...

If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed...

The acclaimed design writer Jeroen Junte traces new themes in Dutch design through 197 innovative and astonishing projects and productsIn recent years, Dutch design has sharply diverged from its previous course. A generation of designers trained in and shaped by Europe's crisis years have...

This book is the first in a trilogy that proposes a new model of Glocal Urbanity that contributes to replace the degraded urban situation created from the post-Fordist transition to current globalization. From 52 propositions it proposes to understand Glocal urbanity as a new...

A history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s told through essays, interviews, remembrances, and primary materials. With contributions by more than forty of the most influential voices in art, architecture, and design, After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet traces a history...

Author: Branko MitrovićISBN-10: 1954081456ISBN-13: 9781954081451Publisher: Oro EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Rhetoric provides a repertoire of different methods for original and innovative creation by introducing notions of surprise, the unexpected, and conflict. The myths of "inspiration" and "the brilliant idea" dominate explanations of the genesis of many architectural and creative projects. Nevertheless, perhaps the most...

The digital intelligence that is inevitably starting to penetrate every aspect of our previously analogue systems of living, working or social interacting calls for new models of designing our city and opens new territories of experimentation in the processes related to urban design.While the...

Prolific author and co-chair of the MFA Design School of Visual Arts Steven Heller shares his love of design with the world through essays, interviews, and profiles. Design is a living. But to live passion is essential. For the Love of Design is an...

A survey of America's preeminent maker of fine silver and its legacy of exceptional design and innovation in the decorative arts. Established in 1831, the Gorham Manufacturing Company adeptly coupled art and industry, rising to become an industry leader of stylistic and technological achievement...

Examines Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies? What happens if we read Life: A User's Manual as a...

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...

Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon warehouses, the concept of fulfillment described the achievement...

Perspectives on Architectural Design Research is a collection of short essays, projects and edited transcripts that offers current perspectives on design research in architecture and aligned disciplines. Contributors include international figures Donald L. Bates, Richard Blythe, Nat Chard, Murray Fraser, Dorita Hannah, Jonathan Hill...

"An exquisite survey, displaying an array of design as well as challenging our definitions of beauty." -Alexander Cavaluzzo, HyperallergicBeauty--the book, born out of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's 2015 Triennial of the same name, curated by Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton--showcases some of the...

Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes "in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves." Howe places immense value on curiosity and passion to help designers...

This accessible handbook from design guru and Design Within Reach founder Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. In friendly text complemented by photographs taken on his travels around the world, Forbes explains how...

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles....