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Warman's Antiques & Collectibles 2012 Price Guide
F+W Media 2011; US$ 27.99The Warman's Advantage As the longest-running guide and the most trusted name in antiques and collectibles, the 45th edition of Warman's Antiques & Collectibles features more than 1,500 images and 6,000 listings. It brings a fresh, 21st-century perspective that honestly assesses the market and looks at the best categories for investment - everything... more...
Design Disasters
Constable & Robinson 2008; US$ 5.82The thrill of victory?the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking?and sometimes hilarious?mistakes they have made and talk... more...
Geometric symmetry in patterns and tilings
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2000; US$ 255.00This book covers a wide range of mathematical concepts as they are applied to regularly repeating surface decoration for textiles and other decorated materials such as wallpapers and wrappings. Starting with basic principles of symmetry it moves on to cover more complex issues of graph theory, group theory and topology. All these concepts are extensively... more...
Design: The Key Concepts
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 32.95This is the essential student?s guide to Design ? its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design ? from Europe to Africa design history ? from Art Nouveau to punk sustainable design, recycling and... more...
Eidgenössische Förderpreise für Design / Bourses fédérales de design / Swiss Federal Design Grants 2006 (German, French and English Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 29.95Each year, on the occasion of the annual Federal Design Award, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture ? this year in cooperation with the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich ? prepares a publication and an exhibition. These serve as platforms for the optimal presentation and documentation of all of the prizewinners together with their prizewinning projects.... more...
Design
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 9.99This book will transform the way you think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. John Heskett goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalise objects. - ;John Heskett wants to transform the... more...
Modernism in Design
Reaktion Books 1997; US$ 43.00Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter from world fairs and everyday domestic objects to American West coast architecture and French and Italian furniture. With essays by Tim Benton, Gillian Naylor, Penny Sparke, Wendy Kaplan,... more...
Dutch Design
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 39.00Mienke Simon Thomas details the groundbreaking accomplishments and popular products of Dutch design in Dutch Design Culture. more...









