Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Reference

Powerhouse Factories takes you beyond album covers to teach you all about the art that drives today's biggest shows and festivals. Show Posters offers a visual timeline of the big players in the music industry, from The Black Keys and Passion Pit to Phantogram and Real Estate, as well as the posters that launched their shows--and the designers' careers.

Show Posters features step-by-step instructions to guide you through screen printing, hand lettering, and yes, even Xeroxing your way to recreating iconic, kickass posters. The...

Design Research is a new interdisciplinary research area with a social science orientation at its heart, and this book explores how scientific knowledge can be put into practice in ways that are at once ethical, creative, helpful, and extraordinary in their results.

In order to clarify the common aspects - in terms of features and approaches - that characterize all strands of research disciplines addressing design, Design Research undertakes an in-depth exploration of the social processes involved in doing design, as well as analyses of the contexts for design use....

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. Covers and defines some 270 terms.

Eine autoritative und kommentierte Auswahl der wesentlichen Texte, welche fur die Orientierung in der Designforschung grundlegend sind.
Gewisse charismatische Namen tauchen im Diskurs zwar immer wieder auf, der Community fehlte es aber an einem verbindlichen, wissenschaftlich abgesicherten und doch leserfreundlichen Arbeitsbuch. Grand und Jonas haben diese Lucke nun gefullt. Die Sammlung von 18 internationalen Texten seit 1960 spiegelt die massgebenden Etappen der Designforschung und der Wissenschaftsforschung wider. Umfangreiche Essays der Herausgeber verorten und erlautern die Texte...

Material World 3 prasentiert uber 100 Materialien und Produkte, die von materiO, der fuhrenden franzosischen Materialbibliothek, eigens fur dieses Buch zusammengestellt worden sind. So ist ein einzigartiger Uberblick entstanden, der die Materialien mit ihren Eigenschaften und asthetischen Qualitaten vorstellt wie z.B. modulare Wandverkleidungen, Fischleder, Solartextilien oder mit Wafern betriebene LED-Beleuchtungssysteme.
Material World 3 liefert allen Architekten, Designern, Studenten und anderen Interessierten die Produktinformationen, technischen Spezifikationen...

The ultimate CMYK swatch reference guide for anyone working in the industry of color.

Colour is one of the most important design principles and one of the hardest to get right. Allow your client's to easily choose the colours for their job, right from the book. No more colour confusion from screen display, no more converting PMS colours for your CMYK print run and most importantly: no more unhappy clients.

With over 1100 swatches with full CMYK breakdowns, this swatch book will become one of the most coveted resources in your office.

Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines, 14th Edition is an indispensable resource for people who create graphic art and those who buy it. As the graphic art marketplace continues to evolve to meet the needs of both digital and print media and as clients struggle with shrinking budgets in the current economy, the need for up-to-date information on business, ethical, and legal issues is greater than ever. Find it all here in the 14th Edition.

The book is a fundamental reference work for exhibition designers, architects, and museum professionals who want to adequately conceive, design, plan, and produce clearly focused thematic exhibitions.
Each thematic field represents different challenges for an exhibition design. This typology by Bertron Schwarz Frey elaborates the special features of the various thematic fields - nature, archeology, history, art, and science. Sketches, floor plans, visualizations, and photographs illustrate the approach, whose essential structure remains the same while finding a different solution for...

Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is of immense interest today not only to the academic design research community but also to those in the business community charged with the development of human-centred products, systems, services, and environments. There are no other books with this focus and coverage currently available.