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Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor by Nina Stritzler-Levine
Category: Craft | Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture
This intriguing book examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced for the past fifty years. With their distinctive colors, thoughtful compositions, and narrative, these miniature creations reveal the emergence and continuity of the artist's approach to her work. Internatio ...Show more
Shirts, Skirts and Shoes: Design Line by Sanna Mander
Category: Children's | Series: Design Line
The second title in a series of concertina fold-out books features one hundred iconic examples of creative excellence from the world of women's fashion. 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. Brought to li ...Show more
Shop Improvements : Outstanding Ideas from the World's Finest Woodworkers by Fine Woodworking Magazine Editors (Editor)
Category: Craft | Series: Great Designs-Fine Woodworking Ser.
For over 30 years woodworkers have turned to "Fine Woodworking" magazine, not only for the wide variety of projects offered, but because the designs offer a level of refinement and sophistication not found in other magazine projects.A signature feature of "Fine Woodworking" project articles is detailed ...Show more
Simplicity by Wang Shaoqiang
Category: Design | Series: Graphic Design Elements
The smaller the number of graphic elements, the stronger the impact of each element. From Mies van der Rohe to the Nordic and Japanese design schools, more and more designers have applied minimalism in their works to infuse them with a clear style, be it branding, editorial, communication, or packaging. ...Show more
Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
Category: Reference | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life S.
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkl ...Show more
Small Environments: Contemporary Design In Detail by Chan Yenna
Category: Architecture | Series: Contemporary Design in Detail
"The Contemporary Design in Details" series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful present ...Show more
Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research by Neil Leach
Category: Art and Design | Series: Architectural Design
Forty years on from the first moon landing, architecture in Space is entering a new era. Over the last decade, there has been a fundamental shift in the Space industry from short-term pioneering expeditions to long-term planning for colonisation, and new ventures such as Space tourism. Architects are no ...Show more
Spanish Design by DAAB
Category: Art and Design | Series: Design Bks.
The impressive economic and infrastructural development that has taken place in Spain over the past two decades has shaped an optimum breeding ground for unprecedented architectural revolution, especially following the focal point which was the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the Universal Exhibition i ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
Sustainable by Aaris Sherin
Category: Craft SPECIALS | Series: Design Field Guide
Graphic designers and their clients are increasingly demanding sustainable solutions. Designers want to address these needs when presenting their work for consideration.
Sustainable Environments by Yenna Chen
Category: House & Home-wh | Series: Contemporary Design in Detail
The Contemporary Design Details series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour of the best details designed by great architects around the world. The series provides a powerful presentation ...Show more
Swedish Wooden Toys by Amy F. Ogata
Category: Design | Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.
Combining the best of Scandinavian design with a plentiful indigenous supply of trees, the Swedish toy industry has long produced vast quantities of colourful, quality wooden items. This superbly illustrated book, including specially commissioned photography, looks at over 100 years of Swedish toys, fro ...Show more