Design

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Bucsescu (Author), Michael Eng (Author)In Looking Beyond the Structure, architect Dan Bucsescu and philosopher Michael Eng record their conversations about the relationship of the built environment and other forms of design to the culture in which they are created. The authors exchange their interpretations of selected readings about design theory and invite the reader to join in the discussion. Questions following each chapter's reading stimulate critical ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sar Perlman (Author), Gerald J. Sherman (Author)Fashion Public Relations delivers a practical approach to the world of public relations and image management, specifically related to the fashion industry. In-depth case studies feature prominent apparel and textile companies as well as outside public relations firms that serve them. Concentrating on the pragmatic aspects of public relations and the fundamentals of fashion public relations, the authors place princ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tracy Jennings (Author)Creativity in Fashion Design: An Inspiration Workbook aims to inspire and empower designers by helping them to develop their personal creativity and use it as a tool to achieve design goals. Activities throughout the book demonstrate that creativity is a tool available to anyone who understands its components and teach students to identify and then seek out or avoid the personal and environmental factors that promote or inhibit their own ...

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Report copyright infringementby Caren S. Martin (Author), Denise a. Guerin (Author)The State of the Interior Design Profession provides an informed view of the interior design profession as it stands, challenging students and inspiring them to consider their role and responsibility in developing the profession's future. Martin and Guerin have identified 12 issues integral to the future development of the interior design profession. Renowned and emerging interior design thinkers (authors), who...

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Report copyright infringementby Aneta Genova (Author)This comprehensive introduction to accessory design gives the aspiring designer an overview of the history of fashion accessories, including a look at important contributions by brands both classic and contemporary. Genova presents a model for accessory design, from inspiration through manufacturing, and relates that process to the design of handbags and small leather goods, footwear, hats, gloves, belts, neckwear, and pocket squares. For e...

Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Paul C. Gutjahr (Editor), Megan L. Benton (Editor)What do we read when we read a text? The author's words, of course, but is that all? The prevailing publishing ethic has insisted that typography--the selection and arrangement of type and other visual elements on a page--should be an invisible, silent, and deferential servant to the text it conveys. This book contests that conventional point of view. Looking at texts ranging from the King James Bible to contemp...

Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing

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Report copyright infringementby Barb Rogers (Author)Barb Rogers claims that anyone can make a fabulous costume using her method of conversion costuming. With the secrets she shares in this book, you don't have to go through the work of making costumes from scratch. Instead, create fabulous, unique costumes for your needs with little money, time, or expertise. You need imagination and the willingness to hunt the thrift shops, garage sales, and discount stores for that perfect item you can conv...

America's Printed Fabrics 1770_1890: - 8 Reproduction Quilt Projects - Historic Notes & Photographs - Dating Your Quilts

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Brackman (Author)Explore Fabrics and Quilts from 1770-1890 with Barbara Brackman Quilt historian Barbara Brackman guides us through more than a century of American fabrics and shares wonderful old photos, diary entries, and letters from America's past. - 8 projects inspired by antique quilts, made with toda's reproduction fabrics - Gain insight into the social, technological, and fashion influences on past generations of quiltmakers - Learn to identify...

The Art of Boot and Shoemaking: A Practical Handbook Including Measurement, Last-Fitting, Cutting-Out, Closing, and Making

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Report copyright infringementby John Bedford Leno (Author)2010 Reprint of 1865 edition. This useful treatise on boot and shoe making covers all aspects of the industry. Chapters on the history of the craft, anatomy of the foot, measurement, lasts, fittings, materials, cutting out, fitting and closing, leggings and gaiters, mending, furring, bows, rosettes, shoe armour, kit-cutting, knives, machines etc. Profusely illustrated with 106 figures and illustrations in the text. Number ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex W. White (Author)Now in full color in a larger size! 40% more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this thought-provoking resource for graphic designers, professors, and students. This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The second edition includes a new section on web design and n...

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Report copyright infringementby Marshall McLuhan (Author), Quentin Fiore (Other)30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative and piquant book. With every technological and social advancement, McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, so pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandu Publishing Co (Other), Shaoqiang Wang (Other)Graphic tees have been around for decades now, representing aspects of our lives we are not afraid to share in public, from social and political affiliations to artistic and musical preferences, lifestyle pursuits or sense of humor. Free Style focuses on one distinct style of this artwork on apparel: the simple line illustration. Whether representational or abstract, there is a looseness there, a studied playfu...

David King Stencils: Past, Present and Crass!

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Report copyright infringementby David King (Author), Steven Heller (Contribution by), Matt Borruso (Contribution by)This long-overdue monograph features David King's iconic stencil-only designs, starting with his legendary logo for the UK band Crass and continuing to the present day. Both the artist's process and finished output are on display in this revealing collection, from the covered-in-layers-of-paint stencils themselves to the drawings and designs outlining the thought process and ult...

Design Elements, Color Fundamentals: A Graphic Style Manual for Understanding How Color Affects Design

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Report copyright infringementby Aaris Sherin (Author)Color is an integral part of any design solution. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals is an essential resource for designers who want to create memorable design and successfully communicate with their audience. It is the second book in Rockport's Design Elements series, which focuses on the core elements of design.With this book, designers will: --Learn how to effectively communicate with color and integrate color with type and image to aff...

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Report copyright infringementby Claude Fayette Bragdon (Author)"Modern architecture, except on its engineering side, has not yet found itself." So stated Claude Bragdon in this 1915 book. An architect himself-and one of the most fascinating thinkers of the early 20th century-Bragdon here blames the urban disconnect from the natural world for the dearth of ornamentation to rival ancient civilizations, which drew inspiration from nature. As an alternative, Bragdon offers geometry as an appropri...

The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Price (Author)In California's Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music's hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names, and it aggressively pushed style, instrumentation, and attitude that countered the orchestral country pop churned out from Nashville. In this compelling ...

Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures

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Report copyright infringementby Eugenie Shinkle (Author)Fashion photography captures our desires and fantasies about how we present ourselves to the world, while reflecting the changing values of our culture and society. Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures explores the profound influence that fashion photography has had on us over the past eight decades, presenting its evolution as a language, and a genre, while showcasing some of its most glamorous moments. Featuring work by every...

The Bridge: The Role of Design in Marketing

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce MacDonald (Author)The Bridge is a new look at an old subject, the influence of art & design from the 1st millennium to the 21st century. It is carefully explored in this fascinating book about ""commercial persuasion."" Today's market managers would be wise to become aware of the value & diversity of the creative world just as the creative makers & graphic designers must learn to appreciate the marketing strategies & tactics that lead to t...

Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Atzmon (Author), Editor Leslie Atzmon (Author), Leslie Atzmon (Editor)The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as verbal or visual messages that have a tactical persuasive objective-a speech that wants to convince us to vote for someone, or an ad that tries to persuade us to buy a particular product-becomes in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Desig...

The Designer's Guide To Marketing And Pricing

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Report copyright infringementby Ilise Benun (Author), Peleg Top (Author)Do what you love and make money!The Designer's Guide to Marketing and Pricing will answer all the common questions asked by designers trying to stay afloat in their creative business - and also successful designers who want to put a little more thought into their operations. Whether you're a freelancer, an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned small-business owner, you'll learn everything you need to know about how to marke...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Salvo (Editor), Liza Potts (Editor)Rhetoric is a natural choice for UX work."--Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"I really like the definition of experience architecture. As Potts and Salvo write in their introduction, 'experience architecture requires that we understand ecosystems of activity, rather than simply considering single-task scenarios.'"--Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, ...

Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Scott Wyatt (Editor), Danielle Nicole Devoss (Editor)Stephen Bernhardt warned almost thirty years ago that our "preoccupation with conventional essay format" excludes the rhetorical rigor of typographic elements. John Trimbur extended this argument, noting that "one of the main obstacles to seeing the materiality of writing has been the essayist tradition and its notion of a transparent text." Visual rhetoric scholars have interrogated the ways in w...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Scott Wyatt (Editor), Dànielle Nicole Devoss (Editor)Stephen Bernhardt warned almost thirty years ago that our "preoccupation with conventional essay format" excludes the rhetorical rigor of typographic elements. John Trimbur extended this argument, noting that "one of the main obstacles to seeing the materiality of writing has been the essayist tradition and its notion of a transparent text." Visual rhetoric scholars have interrogated the ways in w...

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Report copyright infringementby John C. Maxwell (Author)En El mapa de mi sueño, el doctor Maxwell te hace diez preguntas poderosas para determinar como tu sueño se puede convertir en realidad Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 07, 2012

Dialectic: A Scholarly Journal of Thought Leadership, Education and Practice in the Discipline of Visual Communication Design Volume I, Issue I - Wint

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Report copyright infringementby Keith M. Owens (Editor), Michael R. Gibson (Editor)Dialectic is a fully open access, biannual journal devoted to the critical examination of issues that affect design education, research, and inquiry into their effects on the practice of design. Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialectic on behalf of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Design Educators Community (DEC). Num...

127 Years of Design 1890-2017: The Michigan Daily

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Report copyright infringementby Francesca Kielb (Author)127 Years of Design: The Michigan Daily reveals the visual history of the University of Michigan's student-run newspaper The Michigan Daily's front page. It analyzes a front page from every decade since 1890, breaking down the evolution of one of the oldest student newspapers in the country. This publication culminates in a focus on today's newspaper design by Francesca Kielb, the recent Managing Design Editor at The Michigan Daily, who ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael R. Gibson (Editor), Keith M. Owens (Editor)Dialectic is a fully open access, biannual journal devoted to the critical examination of issues that affect design education, research, and inquiry into their effects on the practice of design. Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialectic on behalf of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Design Educators Community (DEC). Num...

Dialectic: A Scholarly Journal of Thought Leadership, Education and Practice in the Discipline of Visual Communication Design - Volume II, Issue I - S

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Report copyright infringementby Michael R. Gibson (Author), Keith M. Owens (Author)Dialectic seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engaged not only in classroom teaching experiences but also in differing forms of research and professional practice. The journal's advisory and editorial boards recognize that design education, along with design research and professional practice, exist in relationships t...

How Reliable is Your Product? (Second Edition): 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Silverman (Author), Adam Bahret (Author)Traditionally, the way to test a product's reliability was to build it--and then try to break it. As systems and technologies improved, TAAF (Test, Analyze, and Fix) methodologies were developed and adopted. In today's global economy with its short, technologically-intense product life cycles, TAAF cannot suffice. Reliability can no longer be a step or a series of steps in product development; it is something that ne...

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Report copyright infringementby George Bickham (Author)This is the only complete edition available of one of the most famous and most useful books of commercial art ever printed. George Bickham, a noted engraver and calligrapher, first compiled this work back in the 1740's, from the best specimens of 24 of the leading calligraphers of his day. Unfortunately, Bickham published his work in 52 separate parts, over a period of eight years. In Bickham's own day it was difficult to get a complete s...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Fullmer (Author)The Studio Companion Series consists of four books, available separately or as a set, that provide a launch pad into the study of design and architecture. Clear instructions and a wealth of examples give students a comprehensive look at the entire design process, from concept to presentation. Developed for today's student, the books present material in a contemporary and graphic manner and are compact and highly portable. The series includ...