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A call for design thinking that centers the planet over human desires. In recent years, numerous fields have applied design principles to a variety of social challenges. Perhaps none of these are as critical as climate change. Design for the New World offers a...

A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen. Text in English and French.Author: Romain MorandiISBN-10: 2376660661ISBN-13: 9782376660668Publisher: Norma EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2022Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.90lbsSize: 12.20h x 9.10w x 1.30d

Instafame charts the impact of Instagram - one of the world's most popular social media platforms - on visual culture in the decade following its launch. It traces the connections between graffiti, street art and Instagram, arguing that social media's battle for a viewer's...

A pattern is like a visual magician, attracting people's attention and interest with its irresistible magic. For a designer, the design and application of patterns can be both a fun game and an exciting visual exploration. This book focuses on the application of patterns...

d design travel is a series of travel guides that introduce Japanese regions with the perspective of long-lasting design. The editorial team spends two months living and traveling in each region covered to find places that are unique to it. The guides are written...

d design travel is a series of travel guides that introduces Japanese prefectures from the perspective of long-lasting design. The editorial team spends two months living and traveling in the prefecture covered to find places that are unique to it. The guides are written...

By early 1963 the foundations of the Marvel Universe had been laid. Following the introduction of the Fantastic Four in 1961 came the amazing (Spider-Man), the astonishing (Ant-Man), the strange (Doctor, that is), the incredible (Hulk), the invincible (Iron Man) and the mighty (Thor)....

Hoping to break out of a sales slump at Marvel in the early 1960s, veteran comic creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby hit on the idea of doing a super team. Kirby, who thought superheroes were due for a revival after 15 years of...

Sketches for furniture and more from a protagonist of postwar Italian designThroughout his long career, most of it spent working with furniture company Molteni & C, the Italian designer Luca Meda's (1936-98) preferred designing tool was the pencil. This volume collects Meda's designs of...

Provides all your DIY ideas for styling and tips on how to plant Inspiration for seasoned plant lovers as well as beginners, providing the total package on the topic of living with plants Urban Jungle: Living and Styling with Plants is a source of...

In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world's most innovative thinkers about higher education in the arts offer fresh directions for educating artists and designers for a post-digital future. A group of artists, researchers, and teachers from a dozen countries here redefine...

History of Interior Design is a comprehensive survey covering the design history of architecture, interiors, and furniture in civilizations all over the world, from ancient times to the present. Each chapter begins with background information about the social and cultural context and technical innovations...

History of Interior Design, Second Edition, covers the history of architecture, interiors, and furniture globally, from ancient times through the late twentieth century. Each chapter gives you background information about the social and cultural context and technical innovations of the period and place, and...

Today's students of architecture, interior design, and landscape design need to master the art of marketing themselves via multiple print and digital formats. This third edition of Design Portfolios reflects contemporary portfolio practices and enables students to create portfolios that serve as both evolving...

Visual Communication Images with Messages, 10th Edition offers students, academics, professionals, and consumers of mass communication a way to better see and understand mediated images that persuade, entertain, and educate. By looking at illustrations through six perspectives-personal, historical, technical, ethical, cultural, and critical-there is...

This book is written with second year chemical engineering undergraduate students in mind. Chemical engineering undergraduate students are generally taught Equilibrium Stage Operations in their second year. This is the first time they are introduced to equilibrium stage based separation processes. Their background at...

This book is for the 'others'. For anyone who's ever felt othered. For us lot. Who deserve celebration and opportunity. Each one is written with love, with the actor in mind. I hope they make your body feel fizzy, I hope they get you...

And not just that - calligraphy can help you calm your mental storm and feel a lot better on a rough day. While it's not a cure for your problems, it can certainly provide instant peace and help you restore your focus. And what's...

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most revered filmmakers of the 20th century. Now to mark the 100th anniversary of his directorial debut in 1922, this updated edition of "The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Movie Making Masterclass" shows the influences upon the young Alfred Hitchcock...

This savvy little book is about finding the "Idea Zone." It is a blueprint for creative thinking and problem solving. The habits, hunches, and tactics colorfully revealed in the book can help everyone think more fully. It is also a myth-buster that discards many...

Thank you, Robert Powell and Patrick Neeman, for framing this conversation, Designing for Humans remains for me the most fantastic amalgamation of the complex to create the simple, useable and nascent components and artefacts that support human experiences. Fundamental to my work in designing...

Teemars are never happy when they find out that they have a mouse in their house except when they realize it's Whiskers. Whiskers the Mouse takes us on a short journey toward understanding kindness and building a friendship between a teemar and her little...

This top-secret black budget program has more than 1,600 German scientist engineers, technicians, mathematicians, and architects. They all come together to consolidate and brainstorm on creating the most incredible technological advances unknown to man. This state-of-the-art facility also works alongside higher overseers who assist...

Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society - who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog and artist...