Design Books
Designer's: Exhibit, Product, Graphic, Fashion and Food
This is a review of the work of over 100 products, fashion, food and visual graphic designs, representing the complete expression of a flow of ideas, languages, research, products and innovations, which together help us to better understand contemporary design trends.
Design Studies: A Reader
Design Studies: A Reader is the ideal entry point for any student who wants to understand the many complex roles of design - as process, product, function, symbol, and use. Reflecting the diverse range of perspectives on design, the reader brings together over 70 key texts.
Design in Britain: Big Ideas, Small Island
This is a unique moment for British design. The generation which shaped the emergence of design in the post war years, from Robin Day and Kenneth Grange to Terence Conran, is still active at the same time as young designers born half a century later are coming to prominence with innovative explorations of the implications for design of a very different technological and social climate. "Design in Britain" discusses the major figures that have led the way and those who have turned it on its head.
Never Use White Type on a Black Background: And 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules
Design has many rules that claim to be big truths and full of wisdom. Designers all go by rules that work for them. This book is a collection of the most talked-about rules and the viewpoints of designers and thought leaders who live by them or hate them.
Corporate Creativity: Developing an Innovative Organization
Corporate Creativity is the ultimate guide for executives and managers looking to increase creativity and innovation in their companies. This anthology of provocative essays, drawn from the pages of Design Management Review and Design Management Journal, explores personal, team, and organizational creativity, and it is packed with insights from the most respected names in the industry: Jeffrey Mauzy, Robert Rassmussen, Leonard Glick, Gerald Nadler, Stefano Marzano, and many others. These experts reveal how leading companies foster a creative culture and maximize talent resources.
The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation
Part manifesto, part handbook, The Designful Company provides a lively overview of a growing trend in management-design thinking as a business competence. According to the author, traditional managers have relied on a two-step process to make decisions, which he calls "knowing" and "doing." Yet in today's innovation-driven marketplace, managers need to insert a middle step, called "making."
Building Design Strategy
How can design be used to solve business problems? That's the question answered, in many innovative ways, by Building Design Strategy. This anthology of provocative essays, each written by a key player or analyst, offers dozens of ideas for creating and maintaining a successful corporate design strategy. Topics explore the full range of issues today, including thinking ahead; adapting to challenges; developing tangible strategies; using design to convey ideas; choosing worthwhile projects to help growth; using design to create fiercely loyal customers.
Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World
Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World is a provocative book that explains why the largest crises we are facing today have design at their core. Author and Icograda Treasurer David B. Berman offers a powerful and hopeful message that will inspire readers to do good design in 2009 and beyond.
3deluxe: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design
Expansive projects accomplished by the interdisciplinary design collective 3deluxe over the last five years. They skilful interplay graphics, interiors and architecture to create powerful spatial situations and graphics that combines a sensitive intellectual and sensual balance. The multi-media theme world Cyberhelvetia, the interior and corporate design for the CocoonClub in Frankfurt, events and exhibitions for the 2006 FIFA World Cup as well as the corporate architecture for Leonardo are only but a few of the multitude of projects featured in this luxurious volume.
Arne Quinze Works
Arne Quinze is a creative phenomenon. This first monograph extensively introduces the designer's full creative universe from the past, present and future. Over 40 invigorating design projects crossing over from furniture, interiors and architecture to urban planning, car design and footwear are showcased with lavish photos, personal sketches and incisive text giving insight into Quinze's cosmos.
Project Management for Design Professionals
In the fast-paced, big-stakes design industry, schedules are accelerated and client expectations are high. Project Management for Design Professionals is written for architects, designers, landscape architects, urban planners, interior designers, engineers and others looking to plan and complete multidisciplinary projects successfully.
Jaime Hayon Works
Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon will be one of the most influential designers in the years to come, and this is the first monograph to present the full spectrum of his work. Ranging from clear and harmonious to playfully extravagant, all of the included examples of interiors, furniture, tableware and decorative ceramics attest to his inimitable grasp of form, style and colour. In addition to celebrated collaborations with clients such as Camper, Swarovski and Bisazza, Jaime Hayon Works contains previously unreleased personal sketches, illustrations and productions of new projects that will make its world premiere debut at the annual Milan Furniture Fair in April 2008.
Making Innovation Work
"To compete effectively, you must innovate: Not just once, but consistently, in all your products, services, and business functions. But, profitable innovation doesn't just "happen." It must be managed, measured, executed on - and few companies do that well. Making Innovation Work offers the first real solution: A start-to-finish process for driving growth from innovation.
House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven
House of Concepts presents the legendary Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands' leading institution for developing design talent that has produced a veritable who's who of the country's creative scene. The book not only features the school's graduates and their work, but also gives insight into the conceptual design for which the Netherlands is famous. The exciting visual content is complemented by extensive interviews with renowned alumni such as Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, Joris Laarman and Judith de Grauw as well as Jeroen and Joep Verhoeven.
Design Paradigms: A Sourcebook for Creative Visualization
How do things bend? How are things joined? How do things get larger or smaller? This book offers a powerful new approach to design and creative visualization, helping you address these key design questions with flexibility and imagination by equipping you with a vital repertoire of design paradigms: basic conceptual and visual ideas that can be applied to all types of design problems.
Material ConneXion
From the largest global resource of new materials comes this innovative new book that connects materials to designers' needs.
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of the manufacturing process. It will appeal not only to product designers involved in lighting, consumer electronics, packaging, domestic accessories and tableware, but also to interior designers, furniture and graphic designers who need access to a range of production methods, as well as to all students of design.
The Little Know-It-All
This book is divided into sections explicating unique vocabulary used in design, printing, typography and photography, and includes helpful tips and concise analysis in contiguous areas such as advertising, multimedia, business copyright and project management.
Transmaterial
A catalog of materials that redefine our physical environment. Transmaterial is indexed in multiple ways for the sake of maximum convenience, and utilizes the new CSI Master-Format 2004 product categorization system. With more than 200 materials, organized by category, described, pictured, and annotated with technical and sourcing information, this catalog is an essential tool for any architect or designer interested in keeping up with the rapid developments in the field of materials, looking for a source of inspiration for their designs, or just eager to get their hands on real materials in an effort to understand the incredibly innovative palette now available to us.
Citizen Designer
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne, Allworth Press.