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Performance Modifying Chevy Trucks: For Street, Strip and Off Road by Rich Johnson
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: S-A Design S.
Peter Blake Design by Webb
Category: Design | Series: Design
This new title in the highly-successful "Design Series" features the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of the British pop artists, Peter Blake came to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s with iconic works like "On the Balcony" and "First Real Target" both now in the Tate Gal ...Show more
Pink Up Your Life!: The World of Pink Design by Manuela Roth
Category: Design | Series: Design
Everybody Needs it! Optimistic, naive and romantic, but not without provocation, extravagance and glamour that is pink. Hardly any other color can polarize like it does, which is what makes it so multifaceted. The color palette ranges from subdued, restrained shades to garish, dominant nuances. For the ...Show more
Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design by Jeremy Aynsley
Category: Design | Series: Mitchell Beazley Art & Design S.
Graphic design plays an integral role in modern life, its influence felt everywhere from the poster to the web page. This comprehensive reference work profiles over 60 of the most influential designers worldwide, from early leaders of the genre including Peter Behrens to Saul Bass, Neville Brody, and ex ...Show more
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (Design Line) by Chris Oxlade
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Design Line
The first in a series of concertina fold-out books, Things That Go features more than fifty iconic boats, bikes and other examples of creative excellence. The history of design is illuminated with a visually accessible timeline that can be read back to front, top to bottom and right to left.
Product Design by Anon
Category: No Category | Series: Designpocket S.
A history of product design. Hundreds of photographs, sketches, drawings and texts reveal how small and large objects were conceived of, built, packaged, marketed and consumed throughout the years, around the world. Various schools of design and notable movements are discussed.
Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues by Lisa M. Abendroth
Category: Architecture | Series: Public Interest Design Guidebooks
Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession. It provides clear professional standards of practice following SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) met ...Show more
Pyramids, Pillars and Palaces (Design Line) by Kitty Imbert
Category: Children's | Series: Design Line
The third title in a series of concertina fold-out books features more than sixty iconic pyramids, castles and skyscrapers and other examples of architectural excellence. The history of architecture is illuminated with a visually accessible timeline that can be read back to front, top to bottom and righ ...Show more
RODCHENKO by MILNER JOHN
Category: unmapped | Series: Design
This is a new title in the "Design" series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a t ...Show more
Radical Architectural Drawing by Neil Spiller (Editor)
Category: Drawing | Series: Architectural Design Ser.
There is a newfound interest in architectural drawing. Some of the most forward-looking architects worldwide are reinventing it to discover the radical possibilities of contemporary architecture as a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Architectural drawing is adapting to compensate for these new ch ...Show more
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde - Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s And 1970s by Matthew Butcher (Guest Editor); Luke C. Pearson (Guest Editor)
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design Ser.
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an 'architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of ...Show more
Redesigning Leadership by John Maeda
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life S.
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor--with a love of argument for argument's sake and the freedom to experiment ...Show more