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The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality by Pia Ednie-Brown
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design
Suggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent, collective and environmentally situated, this book explores architectural innovation in terms of the production of vitality. Emphasizing attention to ways of doing as key to innovation, this book brings together historical perspectives with a range of ...Show more
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Category: Science | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" ma ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of the Dordogne by James Bentley
Category: Travel | Series: World Design
The Dorodogne offers splendid scenery, exquisite food and wine, the finest examples of prehistoric art and some of the most enchanting villages of France. This guide offers a journey through the region, from northern gems such as Brantome to "grand" villages such as Hautefort, found further south among ...Show more
The Politics of Everyday Life - Designing a Collaborative Democracy by Ezio Manzini; Clive Dilnot (Series edited by); Eduardo Staszowski (Series edited by)
Category: History | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
In Politics of the Everyday, celebrated design theorist Ezio Manzini advocates for the creation of flexible communities which are open and inclusive, and therefore resilient and socially sustainable. He proposes a radical overhaul in how we as individuals spend our time, and in what we value. By choosin ...Show more
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt by Erik Hornung
Category: History | Series: Art & Design S.
This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before Christ. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death.
The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski
Category: Culture | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our ...Show more
The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski; John Maeda (Foreword by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artis ...Show more
The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century by Ahmed Kanna
Category: Architecture | Series: Aga Khan Program of the Graduate School of Design
In the last few years, the Persian Gulf city of Dubai has exploded from the Arabian sands onto the world stage. Oil wealth, land rent, and so-called informal economic practices have blanketed the urbanscape with enormous enclaved developments attracting a global elite, while the economy runs on a huge a ...Show more
The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck Designer Edition by Beatrix Potter
Category: Picture Books | Series: Beatrix Potter Designer Editions
Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of ...roast duck! Jemima wa ...Show more
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Designer Edition by Beatrix Potter
Category: Picture Books | Series: Beatrix Potter Designer Editions
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mr ...Show more
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Designer Edition by Beatrix Potter
Category: Picture Books | Series: Beatrix Potter Designer Editions
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published by Frederick Warne in 1902 and endures as Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved tale. It tells the story of a very mischievous rabbit and the trouble he encounters in Mr McGregor's vegetable garden! This edition is part of a collection of five books de ...Show more
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Designer Edition by Beatrix Potter
Category: Children's | Series: Beatrix Potter Designer Editions
Beatrix Potter's famous tale of a naughty squirrel who loses his tail is as popular today as it was when it was first published over 100 years ago. Join Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry and all his cousins as they make their way over to Owl Island to gather nuts. See what happens when Old Brown, the ter ...Show more