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  • Norman Bel Geddes

    American Design Visionary

    by Nicolas P. Maffei ...
    Series series Cultural Histories of Design
    Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design.Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes' work within ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context

    by Grace Lees-Maffei, Nicolas P. Maffei ...
    Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context explains key ways of understanding and interpreting the graphic designs we see all around us, in advertising, branding, packaging and fashion. It situates these designs in their cultural and social contexts.Drawing examples from a range of design genres, leading design historians Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei explain theories of semiotics, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    by Don Norman ...
    By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS.Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring this complex relationship between humans and machines. In this seminal work, fully revised and updated, Norman gives us the first steps towards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines we use ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business (Updated Edition)

    by Cameron S. Foote ...
    The go-to guide for graphic designers who want to run their own shop and improve their bottom line.First published in 2001, The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business set long-needed standards as the first comprehensive management manual for the graphic design industry. Now brought up-to-date, it describes current, best-practice procedures for firms of all sizes operating in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Design as Future-Making

    Edited by Director, Masters in Design Studies Program Susan Yelavich, Barbara Adams ...
    Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Art Deco

    by Eric Knowles ...
    Series Book 9 - Shire Collections
    Although usually associated with the 1920s and the '30s, in fact the Art Deco style had begun to emerge in France prior to the advent of the First World War. But it was during the interwar years that the style, reaching full maturity, was adopted by the international elite as the perfect expression of modern opulence and elegance, and to this day Art Deco designs are redolent of the age of Jazz, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Corset and the Crinoline

    An Illustrated History

    by W. B. Lord ...
    Series series Dover Fashion and Costumes
    Ever since Eve's first blush, clothes have girded, graced and transformed the female physique. Fascinating and insightful, The Corset and the Crinoline is an illustrated history of clothing's attendant underpinnings — especially those that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Reproduced from a rare 1868 fashion publication, each page reveals how the use of wood, whalebone, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Design and the Question of History

    by Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart ...
    Series series Design, Histories, Futures
    Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this textdemands radically transformed ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Giovanni Pintori. The Stark Tension between Flair and Discretion.

    by Massimiliano Musina ...
    Giovanni Pintori (Tresnuraghes 1912–Milan 1999) was one of the best-known, widely admired and respected Italian designers worldwide. The winner of sought-after international awards, he designed impressive works that created the Olivetti image and were an emblematic reference in the history of 20th-century design. This book, the only in-depth monographic study of Pintori, investigates his life and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles

    by Don Norman ...
    By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS.For decades, Don Norman has spoken the language of gadgets, explaining how the things we see every day are made and made better. In this smart, sharp, fun exploration of design, Norman pulls back the curtain on the things we make to make our lives easier.From water faucets and airplane cockpits to the concept of "real time" and the future of memory, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Connected Products

    UX for the Consumer Internet of Things

    by Claire Rowland, Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Ann Light, Alfred Lui ...
    Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design.This book provides experienced UX designers and technologists with a clear and practical roadmap for ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Designing Business and Management

    Edited by Dr Sabine Junginger, Jürgen Faust ...
    Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers, the book offers visual and conceptual models as well as theoretical concepts that connect the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD