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Fifty Watches That Changed the World by Alex Newson
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
The watch has long been a favorite of the design world - both as an indication of the wearer's style and as a test of the designer's ethos and aesthetic. From the early efforts of Le Corbusier and Louis-Francois Cartier to the advent of the digital era and the arrival of the smartwatch, the Design Museu ...Show more
Fifty Women's Fashion Icons That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty by Lauren Cochrane
Category: Fashion | Series: Design Museum Fifty
Fashion is a powerful thing. It can be used for self-expression, to make a political statement, or simply to attract attention. Through this stunning collection, discover how these 50 trendsetters - from Twiggy to Wallis Simpson, Tilda Swinton to Michelle Obama - have used fashion to assert their positi ...Show more
Fine Woodworking: Original Furniture from the World's Finest Craftsmen (Design Book Eight) by Scott Gibson
Category: Craft | Series: Fine Woodworking Design Ser.
Woodworkers use these books as a source of inspiration and project ideas. Interior designers and architects use them as a means to keep up with the latest trends in furniture design. The series has been published since 1977, to date, seven Design Books have been published, the last in 1996. The series ...Show more
Flower Designs by Judy Balchin
Category: Adult Activity Books | Series: Design Library
Beautiful motifs, bouquets, single flowers, borders and frames adorn the pages, all designed to help create beautiful, innovative works of art such as quilts, stitched pieces, collages, journals, cards, pictures or paintings. From roses and orchids to daisies and delphiniums, there is much here for anyo ...Show more
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design by Kees Dorst
Category: BUSINESS | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser.
How 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. T ...Show more
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design by Kees Dorst (University of Technology, Sydney)
Category: Design | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
How 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. To ...Show more
French Interior Design by Chris van Uffelen; Chris van Uffelen
Category: Interior Design | Series: Interior Design Ser.
This new series about the diversity of regional interior design starts with two titles, this one about French interiors. The volume opens the doors to the inner worlds of this country to reflect on the private and the public realms. French Interior Design is showing the similarities as well as the diffe ...Show more
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure - Making and Using the Urban Environment by Nigel Bertram
Category: Architecture | Series: Design Research in Architecture Ser.
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before a ...Show more
GEOMETRY OF DESIGN by Elam Kimberly
Category: Design | Series: Design Briefs S.
At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as well as the essent ...Show more
Game Design by Daab
Category: Art | Series: Various Design Books
This title features the most exceptional and sensational projects from the realm of virtual and digital game design--an inspiring book with countless illustrations, interesting background information, and a DVD for further inspiration.