Kategoria BISAC: Design >> General

Patternsized illustrations of designs suitable for quilts, clothing, embroidery. Each with the source identified.

Barbara Buenger traces the development of Viennese modernism from turn-of-the-century Jugendstil (as Art Nouveau was known in German-speaking countries) to early twentieth-century Expressionism, and interwar Art Deco. This exhibition catalogue features 103 fine and decorative art works produced by the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstatte movements between the 1890s and 1930s. The fully illustrated catalog features textiles, furniture, ceramics, paintings and prints, books, metalwork, glass, and a variety of other objects from a private midwestern collection.
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Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.
Design for Society is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people...

In the mid-1970s Holmes introduced an array of inventive new pictograms and ways to use them as key graphic elements in what he dubbed "explanation graphics" which triggered what became "information design" in magazines, newspapers, and other media.

Portland, Oregon, is often cited as one of the most livable cities in the United States and a model for smart growth. At the same time, critics deride it as a victim of heavy-handed planning and point to its skyrocketing housing costs as a clear sign of good intentions gone awry. Which side is right? Does Portland deserve the accolades it has received, or has hype overshadowed the real story? In The Portland Edge, leading urban scholars who have lived in and studied the region present a balanced look at Portland today, explaining current conditions in the context of the people and...

Inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain followed soon after the austerity of the war years. The major events were focused around the twenty-seven-acre bomb site around Waterloo Station, although events happened throughout the UK. The Festival was almost immediately unfashionable amongst commentators. It was viewed with suspicion by political conservatives and quickly dismantled. An establishment orthodoxy quickly emerged that called into question the Festival's objectives. This political ambivalence towards the Festival is confounded by the popularity of the Festival...

This volume gathers Stephen Bayley's collected writings on design. Since the late 1970s, Bayley has advised Sir Terence Conran, created the influential Boilerhouse Project at the Victoria and Albert Museum, directed London's Design Museum and advised the Labour government. His journalism, although best known for covering taste and design in the widest meaning of the words, has also delved into a much wider range of issues related to popular culture, car culture, art and society.

A visual and textual mosaic to celebrate and question the new millennium. Presenting a series of themes rather than giving any answers, it brings together found and commissioned images with writing from some of Britain's leading authors. Included are Derek Jarman, Michele Roberts, Steve Aylet, Louis de Bernieres, James Kelman and Robert Harris as well as historians Raphael Samuel and Eric Hobsbawn. Subjects covered include: the individual; globalization; cyber space; memory; belonging; and the environment.

This volume documents a selection of items from the Millennium Products chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantastical, futuristic or radically simple solutions to age-old problems and everyday needs.

Das Buch befragt kunstlerische Arbeiten der letzten vier Jahrzehnte hinsichtlich der Kategorie Geschlecht. Bilder zu Sexualitat und Geschlechtlichkeit, die die Polarisierung von "weiblich" und "mannlich" unterwandern, erweitern die Sichtweisen zum Thema Geschlecht. Mit dem Wiederabdruck des als Klassiker geltenden Aufsatzes "Dame im Bild" von Rozsika Parker und Griselda Pollock sowie mit Anja Zimmermanns Essay "Was war feministische Kunst?" werden die Werke in einen grosseren kunsthistorischen und -theoretischen Zusammenhang gestellt."

Meet Doctor Baby, Scientist Baby and many more in this colorful and unusual collection of extreme cuteness.

Bar, surface, body, and space are the fundamental elements of the design process. Every form, however complex, may be understood as a variation of them. Transformation represents a foundational work for architects, designers, and lay people with an interest in cultural history: the unrivaled grammar of design.

Smart Materials stellt die Entwicklung dieser Materialien sowie ihren Kontext in Architektur, Design und Kunst dar. Anhand von rund zwanzig Materialgruppen wird ein systematisch aufgebauter Uberblick mit zahlreichen Details uber Eigenschaften, Technologien, Produkte und Projekte gegeben.

In diesem Buch werden die wichtigsten Bauweisen, die sich je nach den verwendeten Konstruktionsmaterialien Holz, Stahl, Mauerwerk und Beton fur diesen Gebaudetypus ausgepragt haben, anhand von 22 internationalen Beispielen einander gegenubergestellt.

Des concepts inhabituels pour un traitement novateur de l'existant

Unconventional concepts for reusing existing buildings - economical, ecological and of historical / cultural value.

The definitive overview of patterns in design, art, and architecture. This book presents the various multidisciplinary approaches to patterns, showing the many functions and fields of application. Using examples of contemporary work by internationally renowned designers, it lays out a kaleidoscope of colors and forms before the reader.

Wie andere skandinavische Meister zuvor sind Claesson Koivisto Rune sowohl in der Architektur als auch im Design heimisch. Die architektonischen Objekte in dieser Monografie sind Privathauser und Inneneinrichtungen von Europa bis Nord- und Sudamerika, auerdem groere Gebaude wie das Sfera Kulturhaus in Kyoto. Die abgebildeten Mobel und andere vom Trio entworfene Produkte werden von uber 30 internationalen Herstellern produziert.

Organized thematically, this book highlights a variety of well-defined topics, such as handicap-accessibility and flexibility of use, and presents them together with explanatory technical articles and examples of realized projects. In closing, it provides addresses of information centers as well as sources of additional information.

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another?

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