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Design: Portfolio - Self-Promotion at its best by Craig Welsh
Category: Art-wh | Series: Design Ser.
Featuring a curated collection of approximately 300 exquisite designs, along with essays from designers in the field about the essence and importance of a good portfolio design, Design: Portfolio contains mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of exceptiona ...Show more
Design Secrets by Catharine Fishel
Category: unmapped | Series: Design Secrets S.
Product packaging design offers designers the opportunity to work with an endless array of new methods and materials, which allows fresh and exciting ideas to come to life. However, designers are constantly being constrained by unimaginative briefs and tight budgets. Design Secrets: Packaging deconstruc ...Show more
Design Sourcebook Mosaics by Martin Cheek
Category: Architecture | Series: Design Sourcebook S.
This text presents a portfolio of mosaic work, featuring nearly 200 designs from over 40 different mosaic artists. Written for the amateur or professional artists, this text can provide inspiration and information on contemporary work.
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini
Category: Art and Design | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals a ...Show more
Design and the Social Imagination by Matthew DelSesto
Category: Design | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
How can social theory help us all design solutions to address the social, political and ecological challenges that confront us, and build more sustainable communities? Design professions have typically been associated with intervention and action, while social science has long been associated with thoug ...Show more
Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Wiley Series in Sustainable Design
This is a new paperback version of a text, originally published in 1969, that outlined the principles of urban design from an environmental perspective. It should benefit architects, urban and regional planners, and environmentalists.
Designed for Hi-Fi Living - The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America by Janet Borgerson
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Designed for Hi-Fi Living
The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a ...Show more
Designer Wrap Ribbed Copper Ultra Lined by The Paperblanks Book Company
Category: Paperblanks | Series: Designer Wraps Collection
Our Designer Wraps series comprises a beautifully produced smythe sewn journal which provides a creative playground for writing. An elegant and sophisticated blend of textured materials and textures in a tasteful range of colors, this wrap makes a versatile companion for use in the home, office or on th ...Show more
Designers Guild Tourangelle 750 Piece Shaped Puzzle by Galison; Designers Guild (Artist)
Category: Jigsaw Puzzles | Series: GAL Designers Guild Ser.
Established in 1970 by Tricia Guild, Designers Guild designs and produces fabrics, wallcoverings, upholstery, and more all over the world. The Designers Guild Tourangelle 750 Piece Shaped Puzzle features the gorgeous Tourangelle Peony uniquely die-cut and contoured around this magnificent bouquet. The f ...Show more
Designers Toolkit 500 Grids And Styles by Graham Davis
Category: unmapped | Series: Designer's Toolkit
A grid is used to create consistency and visual harmony throughout a multi-page or multi-screen document. This work helps to identify and employ one of the best design template for the job. It provides the instructions you need on how to make one of the best of them, with advice on understanding the iss ...Show more
Designing Designing by J.C. Jones
Category: Interior Design | Series: Radical Thinking in Design Ser.
designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing. Offering a savage auto-critique of h ...Show more
Designing with Plants by "Fine Gardening" magazine
Category: Gardening | Series: "Fine Gardening" Design Guides
Demystifying the art of designing with plants, this book offers practical, how-to advice on: basic design techniques; using colour; designing a year-round garden; using plants for special effects; ground cover; planted walls; extending the seasons; and the secret of plant combinations.