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Book Less   More

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renny Ramakers
  • Publisher : 010 Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789064504570
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Less More written by Renny Ramakers and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van de ontwikkelingen in de wereld van het design in de laatste tien jaar.

Book The International Design Yearbook 2001

Download or read book The International Design Yearbook 2001 written by Michele De Lucchi and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The editor has grouped together objects in catagories which illuminate current developments in design, such as home-office furniture; the work of leading architects, ranging from Norman Foster and David Chipperfield to Zaha Hadid and Kazuyo Sejima; new treatments of traditional forms like wickerware; minimalist designs; and innovations from leading companies like Apple, Philips, Sharp and Siemens".--BOOKJACKET.

Book A Dictionary of Modern Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Woodham
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 0192518534
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern Design written by Jonathan Woodham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 950 entries From the Arts and Crafts Movement to Postmodernism, Apple to Frank Lloyd Wright, this fascinating dictionary covers the past 160 years of international design, with accessible entries on branding, graphics, industrial design, functionalism, and fashion. New entries on digital design and sustainable design bring the coverage up to date. The dictionary's international focus takes in major movements, key concepts, design terminology, and important design institutions, museums, and heritage sites. The new edition reflects the growing global importance of design, with coverage of India, China, the countries of the Pacific Rim, Eastern Europe and East Asia, and demonstrates how developments in the design of technology influence everyday life, with new entries on fonts, games developers such as Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo, Android, Samsung, and Blackberry, and a fully revised entry on Apple. The A-Z entries are complemented by an extensive bibliography and a timeline.

Book Yearbook Dutch Design 03 04

Download or read book Yearbook Dutch Design 03 04 written by Aad Krol and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eternally Yours

Download or read book Eternally Yours written by Ed van Hinte and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to map out ways of designing and planning products so that their value is sustained and they can be kept in use for a longer time. It tells the story of Vivian, a name that represents any product. The life oF Vivian is traced from preconception, through development, purchase and long period of use, right up to oblivion. Vivian's story is embedded in the information and experiences that the Eternally Yours Foundation has gathered over the past years, culminating in the 'Time in design' conference organized in October 2003 in cooperation with the Long Now Foundation. This book includes most of the lectures by, among many others, Ezio Manzini, Brian Eno, Gustaf Beumer and John Thackara - introduction.

Book Droog Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renny Ramakers
  • Publisher : 010 Publishers
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9789064503016
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Droog Design written by Renny Ramakers and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recente, vernieuwende ontwerpen voor meubels en interieur-objecten van jonge Nederlandse vormgevers, samengebracht onder de noemer 'Droog Design'.

Book Superdutch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bart Lootsma
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781568982397
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Superdutch written by Bart Lootsma and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propelled by the popular success of Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architecture is basking in critical and commercial success across the globe. This phone-book sized collection features all of the key players in Dutch architecture, presenting their work through detailed drawings and stunning photography. Super Dutch is graphic proof why this small handful of practitoners is shaping the future direction of architecture.

Book Dutch Design

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  • Author : Mienke Simon Thomas
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 1861894724
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Dutch Design written by Mienke Simon Thomas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimentation and Dutch design have long gone hand in hand, from postage stamps to the Rietveld chair to the clean simplicity of Schiphol airport. Mienke Simon Thomas skillfully details the groundbreaking accomplishments and popular products of Dutch design in Dutch Design Culture. Thomas, a museum curator, delves deeply into the rich design history of the Netherlands, beginning with the historical roots of Dutch crafts education and the moral and social ideals of modernism that became central to the nation’s cultural dialogue. Touching upon such issues as the emergence of the professional industrial designer, public work initiatives, debates about design as art, and the provocative notion of “anti-design,” Thomas argues that though Dutch design from the beginning has been driven by aims of functionality, simplicity, and affordability, it has also embraced luxury and exclusivity. The book also discusses the role played by leading Dutch designers and their works, including Wim Crouwel, Marcel Wanders, and the design collective Droog Design. An unprecedented, detailed history, Dutch Design Culture is a critical primer on one of the leading national design movements today.

Book The Fundamentals of Product Design

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Product Design written by Richard Morris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fundamentals of Product Design provides an integrated and cohesive view of the product design process, covering materials, manufacturing, idea generation, computer-aided design, engineering functions, product types, and market research. Full of inspiring visuals covering a wide variety of product design examples, Richard Morris presents an engaging introduction to this sizeable topic and can be used as both a reference text and a useful guide.

Book Open Design and Innovation

Download or read book Open Design and Innovation written by Leon Cruickshank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open innovation, crowd sourcing, democratised innovation, vernacular design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design and innovation that have generated discussion and media coverage in recent years. In practice, these ideas are often inspiring propositions rather than providing pragmatic strategies. Open Design and Innovation develops the argument for a more nuanced acknowledgement and facilitation of 'non-professional' forms of creativity; drawing on lessons from commercial design practice; theoretical analysis and a wider understanding of innovation. Specifically this book examines: innovation and design, the reality and myth of mass creativity and the future of the design profession, through a series of case studies of new approaches to open design practices. The text draws on academic research, practical experience of the author in delivering open design projects and first hand interviews with leaders in the fields. The author challenges the notion of the designer as 'fountain-head' of innovation and, equally, the idea of 'user creativity' as a replacement for traditional design and innovation. The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers. It goes on to propose a roadmap for the development of the design profession, welcoming and facilitating new modes of design activity where designers facilitate creative collaborations.

Book Yearbook Dutch Design 05

Download or read book Yearbook Dutch Design 05 written by Aad Krol and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Design in Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matt Malpass
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-23
  • ISBN : 1472575199
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Critical Design in Context written by Matt Malpass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining how critical design can work in practice through a range of contemporary examples. Critical Design moves away from traditional approaches that limit design's role to the production of profitable objects, focusing instead on a practice that is interrogative, discursive and experimental. Using a wide range of examples from contemporary practice, and drawing on interviews with key practitioners, Matt Malpass provides an introduction to critical design practice and a manifesto for how a radical and unorthodox practice might provide design answers in an age of austerity and ecological crisis.

Book Design and National Identity

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  • Author : Javier Gimeno-Martínez
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-22
  • ISBN : 1472591062
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Design and National Identity written by Javier Gimeno-Martínez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey. This illuminating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the 'national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalisation, migration and cultural diversity. Javier Gimeno-Martinez is Lecturer in Design Cultures at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Book Idea Searching for Design

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  • Author : David Bramston
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-03-23
  • ISBN : 1350033901
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Idea Searching for Design written by David Bramston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Idea Searching examines methods of generating and identifying ideas, and teaches you to understand what is being observed and recorded. Using lavish illustrations, concise case studies and practical examples, it explores how different experiences, contexts and references are important in identifying an idea that is appropriate for a particular individual, target audience or culture. Advocating a step-by-step approach to generating ideas and brainstorming, it encourages an open mind in the development of ideas and teaches you to always question convention. The text is accompanied by a variety of case studies and examples of work from the world's best contemporary product designers. It also includes a number of new projects for students, to encourage further exploration of ideas.

Book The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Design Studies written by Penny Sparke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of sub-disciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more. The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the last four decades. Comprised of forty-three newly-commissioned essays, the Companion is organized into the following six sections: Defining Design: Discipline, Process Defining Design: Objects, Spaces Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the essays offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.

Book Droog Design Catalogue

Download or read book Droog Design Catalogue written by Droog Design (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thinking  Objects  Contemporary Approaches to Product Design

Download or read book Thinking Objects Contemporary Approaches to Product Design written by Tim Parsons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking: Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design discusses influences on modern product design such as globalization, technology, the media and the need for a sustainable future, and demonstrates how readers can incorporate these influences into their own work. The book also discusses how readers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning and discover historical context. Thinking: Objects provides an essential reference tool that will enable you to find your own style and succeed in the industry.