Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Reference

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. Covers and defines some 270 terms.

Vision and Values in Design Management explores the value of design as a key strategic resource that can be utilized in the pursuit of securing a competitive advantage within highly complex and emergent markets.

Throughout the book, David Hands offers contributions from key thinkers and practitioners drawn from both industry and academia to provide an essential guide to the development, key issues and future directions of design management.

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. Covers and defines some 270 terms.

Eine autoritative und kommentierte Auswahl der wesentlichen Texte, welche fur die Orientierung in der Designforschung grundlegend sind.
Gewisse charismatische Namen tauchen im Diskurs zwar immer wieder auf, der Community fehlte es aber an einem verbindlichen, wissenschaftlich abgesicherten und doch leserfreundlichen Arbeitsbuch. Grand und Jonas haben diese Lucke nun gefullt. Die Sammlung von 18 internationalen Texten seit 1960 spiegelt die massgebenden Etappen der Designforschung und der Wissenschaftsforschung wider. Umfangreiche Essays der Herausgeber verorten und erlautern die Texte...

Material World 3 prasentiert uber 100 Materialien und Produkte, die von materiO, der fuhrenden franzosischen Materialbibliothek, eigens fur dieses Buch zusammengestellt worden sind. So ist ein einzigartiger Uberblick entstanden, der die Materialien mit ihren Eigenschaften und asthetischen Qualitaten vorstellt wie z.B. modulare Wandverkleidungen, Fischleder, Solartextilien oder mit Wafern betriebene LED-Beleuchtungssysteme.
Material World 3 liefert allen Architekten, Designern, Studenten und anderen Interessierten die Produktinformationen, technischen Spezifikationen...

This text will be most useful in both beginning and intermediate interior design and architecture CAD courses. The first two parts of the text are meant to be a general, quick reference for using the CAD program. The third and fourth parts of the text focus on learning to draw more accurately, efficiently, and effectively using CAD. The most important goal of the workbook is to integrate AutoCAD technology with the traditional design studio techniques of space planning and drawing. It will help students become more conversant with the technology they're using, while also relating it to its...

The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book should always be next to a designer's computer. Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as how much space to leave in the gutter when designing barrel folds, how to layout a template for a box, and the ratios of each part, as well as metric conversion charts, standard envelope sizes in the USA, Europe, Canada and Asia, and much more. This hardworking handbook is compact and accessible and is a must-have for any...

The book is a fundamental reference work for exhibition designers, architects, and museum professionals who want to adequately conceive, design, plan, and produce clearly focused thematic exhibitions.
Each thematic field represents different challenges for an exhibition design. This typology by Bertron Schwarz Frey elaborates the special features of the various thematic fields - nature, archeology, history, art, and science. Sketches, floor plans, visualizations, and photographs illustrate the approach, whose essential structure remains the same while finding a different solution for...

Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is of immense interest today not only to the academic design research community but also to those in the business community charged with the development of human-centred products, systems, services, and environments. There are no other books with this focus and coverage currently available.