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| Design for Kids | | This book presents a wide range of objects designed specifically for children, showing the most recent trends in kids design, from the latest innovations in terms of industrialisation and use of materials, to the use of great classics of industrial design adapted to boys and girls. The functionality of these works, as well as the practical applications they were created have become crucial selection criteria for this book, which contains more than 300 objects. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8492796561
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| Design It! | | Design It! is a great introduction to lots of satisfying careers from architecture to model making, to the pioneers, and to the principles of good design that make life more pleasant. Rona Arato introduces young readers to the world of industrial design by focusing on our homes and by presenting the basics. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0887768466
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| Apple Design | | Over the past decade, Ive and his team of designers save created elegant and user-friendly designs that have significantly advanced the brand's cult status as it enters the new millennium. Examining each of these in detail, and with full color throughout, Apple Design compares various approaches to industrial design alongside Apple's, and casts light on numerous aspects of its history, deepening our understanding of contemporary industrial design. Following an analysis of the forms and functions of the featured Apple products, the book provides an explanation of the innovative production methods and materials applied. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3775730117
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| New Directions in Thai Materials | | New Directions in Thai Materials is an exploration of materials currently offered in the Thai design world. Familiar natural solutions reflect the abundant tropical environment but are transformed into contemporary products while synthetics offer surprising and often deceptive imitations as well as novelty of their own. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1932476504
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| Vision in Product Design | | This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9063692056
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| Sketching | | Sketching the Basics starts with the white sheet of paper or the empty screen and explains the rudiments of learning to draw both clearly and comprehensively, using step by step illustrations, examples and strate- gies. You will learn to use and master the different techniques and also how to apply sketches in the design process. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9063692536
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| The Industrialization of Design: A History from the Steam Age to Today | | Industrial design is a fundamental component of the consumer experience. Almost every commercial product encountered in our day-to-day lives, from toasters to toothbrushes, has been designed with our taste, our desires and our lifestyles in mind. This book traces the history of industrial design, beginning with the eighteenth-century. It identifies the major figures, organizations, styles and events of the profession, looking particularly at the refinement of industrial design by twentieth-century European artists and the congruence of American design and industry during and immediately after the Great Depression. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0786442549
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| As Little Design As Possible | | This comprehensive monograph covers both Rams' life and his work, as well as his ideas on good design, which continue to inspire designers and consumers today. The book includes a wide variety of visual material, including sketches and technical drawings, photographs of Rams' work as well as his life, archival material from both Braun and Vitsoe, Ingeborg Rams' subtle photographs and Vitsoe's playful graphic design and advertising. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0714849189
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| The Authority of Everyday Objects | | From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups - including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations - who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0520253841
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| Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby | | The first monograph on the work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, two of the most innovative industrial designers from Britain. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0847835405
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| Product and Furniture Design | | Clearly presented and highly detailed, each book is organized into three easily referenced parts: forming, joining, and finishing. An explanation of each manufacturing process provides a full technical description; analysis of typical applications; and information on cost, speed, and environmental impact. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0500289190
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| Made in Russia | | This irreverent survey celebrates the more populist and enduring work in graphic and industrial design that was a product of the Soviet era - a period that remain politically sensitive and under-explored, yet whose influence on the objects and aesthetics of Russian life and thought has been profound. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0847836053
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| Usefulness in Small Things | | Everyday, low-cost, and mass-produced items gathered from around the world showcasing innovative design. This book presents a delightful collection of mass-produced objects that provide insight into the things that surround us. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0847836088
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| Hella Jongerius: Misfit | | The only up-to-date monograph on the work of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0714859877
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| Predictable Magic | | Predictable Magic makes the case for supplementing traditional approaches of consumer research and data collection with the study of "emotional triggers" and establishment of emotional connections, revealing this technique as the best way to achieve market insight amid the often-conflicting "answers" traditional methods yield. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0137023480
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