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Design and Anthropology
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 114.95Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the re-conceptualisation of... more...
Designing To Avoid Disaster
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher... more...
Digitale Welt und Gestaltung
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 46.00An den Design- und Kunst-Hochschulen im deutschen Sprachraum wird das Designstudium zur wissenschaftlichen Disziplin. Der wohl einflussreichste Akteur in diesem Umfeld ist Tomás Maldonado. Dieser Band enthält eine Auswahl seiner wichtigsten Essays zu Problemen von Umwelt und Gestaltung, moderner Zivilisation, Technologie und Kultur. more...
Einführung in das Methodische Konstruieren
Springer 2012; US$ 31.99Dieses Lehrbuch orientiert sich an den VDI-Richtlinien 2221 und 2222. Ausgehend von der Beschreibung der betrieblichen Einordnung der Konstruktion wird anschaulich dargestellt, wie auf der Basis der Systemtechnik die Tätigkeit des Konstruierens mit methodischer Unterstützung effizient, zielsicher und mit optimalem Ergebnis erfolgen kann.... more...
Integral Sustainable Design
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives... more...
What Designers Know
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Crucially, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas and how... more...
Design for Emotion
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 34.95Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions are explained, while real-world examples show how the design you create affects the... more...
Designers Visionaries and Other Stories
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative... more...
Design and Ethics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling. Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform... more...
Global Design History
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 35.95Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ?networks? or ?flows? and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about... more...









