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  • Printed Textile Design

    This books explains the fundamentals of printed textile design, from design brief through to the completed collection, and introduces the basics of colour, drawing, composition and repeat with a series of step-by-step exercises and examples.Printed Textile Design helps to demystify the design process and provides an invaluable guide to the study and practice of textile design.The book includes ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Crafting Anatomies

    Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications

    The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for archival research, creative dialogues and hybrid fabrications in fashion design. Focusing on how our response to the corporeal has shifted over time, the book looks at how it is currently influencing design and socio-material practices.With contributions ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Textile Design

    Principles, Advances and Applications

    Edited by A Briggs-Goode, K Townsend ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Textile design is a complex field of practice which operates in a competitive, global industry. Designers need to take into account not only the design but also the manufacture, technological development and application of the final product. Textile design provides a broad overview of the fundamentals of and advances in textile design, as well as practical case studies of relevant industries.Part ... Read more

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    The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Read more

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  • Fashion Design

    Process, Innovation and Practice

    Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trendsFashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results can be achieved if the right processes are followed in the early design process.Fashion Design sets out basic principles and exercises in order to ... Read more

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  • Speculative Everything

    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Shipping Container Home: All about Building Them, Organizing and Designing a Functional Interior!

    Tiny House Living Guide

    Series series Tiny House Living Guide
    You can have your very own home for about the price of a brand-new car. In these days of cash crunches and economic recession, that is very enticing to a lot of people!In this book, you'll learn about building a functional and comfortable home for very little money, and you’ll start with one or more shipping containers.Shipping container construction is not brand-new – people have been building ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pervasive Information Architecture

    Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences

    Pervasive Information Architecture explains the 'why' and 'how' of pervasive information architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories. It offers insights about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges. The book will help readers master agile information structures while meeting their unique needs on such devices as smart phones, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • New York School of Interior Design: Home

    The Foundations of Enduring Spaces

    **"An essential text for all students of design . . . [and] inspiration and intel for those simply interested in the art and practice." --Alexa Hampton, from the forewordFrom the nation's top college for interior design comes a definitive design school in a book and a fabulous reference for decorating the home.** In the past decade, New York School of Interior Design, which was founded in 1916, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Art of Critical Making

    Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice

    Describes the world's leading approach to art and design taught at Rhode Island School of DesignAt Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking—albeit with one's hands—i.e. "critical making." The Art of Critical Making, by RISD ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Fashion Design for Living

    Edited by Alison Gwilt ...
    Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our lives, but also are mindful of social and sustainable issues.This book sets out to question and challenge the dominant, conventional process of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Meaningful Stuff

    Design That Lasts

    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more.Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless ... Read more

    $14.99 USD