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Book The Grand Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen W. Hawking
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0553819224
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Stephen W. Hawking and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativity physics.

Book The Great Design

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  • Author : Robert Kemp Adair
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 0195060695
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Great Design written by Robert Kemp Adair and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the concepts of particles, fields, relativity, and quantum mechanics, describes how recent discoveries have changed our view of the universe, and discusses the search for an ultimate, unified theory

Book Great Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Wilkinson
  • Publisher : DK
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781465414403
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Great Design written by Philip Wilkinson and published by DK. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring DK's signature lush, visual style, Great Design provides a fascinating overview of the dynamic history of design from the 1860s onwards. It traces the development of modern design from all corners of the world, including product design, furniture, graphics, industrial design, and textiles. With more than 100 of the best designs explored and explained, from Bauhaus posters and bubble chairs to the Citroën DS and the iPad, Great Design is a stunning visual guide to the icons of modern design. Including profiles of influential designers, workshops, and movements, as well as highlighting the key characteristic elements, reading Great Design is like being taken on a tour of a design museum with a personal guide who points out what to look at, deciphers key points of style, and helps you understand what design is and how it works.

Book What Makes Great Design

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  • Author : Susie Hodge
  • Publisher : White Lion Publishing
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780711235496
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book What Makes Great Design written by Susie Hodge and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some designs more successful and influential than others? This book showcases 80 exceptional creations, from the Polaroid Land camera and the Sony Walkman to the Coca-Cola bottle and Converse All Stars.

Book Do You Matter

Download or read book Do You Matter written by Robert J. Brunner and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Definitely, a game changer! Design experience is the power shift to our era what mass marketing was to the last century.” John Sculley former CEO, Pepsi and Apple “Great design is about creating a deep relationship with your customers. If you don’t, you’re roadkill. This book shows you how and much, much more. Be prepared to have your mind blown.” Bill Burnett Executive Director, Design Program, Stanford University “Design is the last great differentiator, and yet so few really understand it. Do You Matter? offers a marvelous series of direct, in-your-face observations and drives home the means to an absolutely integrated design strategy.” Ray Riley Design GM, Entertainment and Devices, Microsoft “This book will challenge you to ask and answer what arguably are the most important questions an executive can ponder today. So open up.” Noah Kerner CEO, Noise and coauthor, Chasing Cool More and more companies are coming to understand the competitive advantage offered by outstanding design. With this, you can create products, services, and experiences that truly matter to your customers' lives and thereby drive powerful, sustainable improvements in business performance. But delivering great designs is not easy. Many companies accomplish it once, or twice; few do it consistently. The secret: building a truly design-driven business, in which design is central to everything you do. Do You Matter? shows how to do precisely that. Legendary industrial designer Robert Brunner (who laid the groundwork for Apple's brilliant design language) and Stewart Emery (Success Built to Last) begin by making an incontrovertible case for the power of design in making emotional connections, deepening relationships, and strengthening brands. You'll learn what it really means to be "design-driven" and how that translates into action at Nike, Apple, BMW and IKEA. You'll learn design-driven techniques for managing your entire experience chain; define effective design strategies and languages; and learn how to manage design from the top, encouraging "risky" design innovations that lead to entirely new markets. The authors show how (and how not) to use research; how to extend design values into marketing, manufacturing, and beyond; and how to keep building on your progress, truly "baking" design into all your processes and culture.

Book Great Design Using Non Traditional Materials

Download or read book Great Design Using Non Traditional Materials written by Sheree Clark and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 1996-01-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look at how graphic designers use non-traditional materials to turn typical assignments (brochures, promotions, holiday greetings, posters) into out-of-the-ordinary pieces. These are concepts that just can't be carried off with plain paper. So the designers make their own papers. They invent unusual bindings. They pioneer uses for copper, burlap bags, acrylics, glass, drywall, coconut husks, pizza boxes, paint cans... The resulting designs, showcased in this book, go far beyond the visual to deliver powerful, tactile impressions. In step-by-step projects, you'll find out how these memorable and uniquely appropriate pieces were conceived, designed and produced - in quantities from tens to hundreds. Plus, you'll find production tips, cost-cutting advice, and intriguing ideas on how to use these exciting materials in your own work.

Book Design for Great Day

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  • Author : Alan Dean Foster
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1996-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780812524604
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Design for Great Day written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a strange warship appears on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human being and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's demand--end war with an interstellar rival or face the consequences. But James Lawson, emissary from the intergalactic federation of advanced races, means every word he says.

Book  Dialog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Carbone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781938461026
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dialog written by Ken Carbone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the work of design agency, the Carbone Smolan Agency.

Book Design Disasters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Heller
  • Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
  • Release : 2008-10-28
  • ISBN : 1581156529
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Design Disasters written by Steven Heller and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how some of the world's best designers have turned near catastrophic failures into hard-won victories. "Design Disasters", the first book of its kind, brings together a collection of essays by today's top designers and design thinkers reveal the heartbreaking (and hilarious) mistakes they have made and how they were able to grow from the experiences.The essays explore topics such as the essence of failure and success, the role of failure in a design career, the perils of over-commitment, mistakes made through self-delusion, dealing with clients in the aftermath of failure, and much more.

Book Great Teaching by Design

Download or read book Great Teaching by Design written by John Hattie and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn good intentions into better outcomes—by design! Why leave student success up to chance? By combining your intuition and experience with the latest research on high-impact learning practices, you can evolve your teaching from good to great and make a lasting difference for your students. Organized around the DIIE framework, Great Teaching by Design takes you step-by-step from intention to implementation to accelerate the impact your teaching has on student learning. Inside, you’ll find • A deep dive into the four stages of the DIIE model: Diagnosis and Discovery, Intervention, Implementation, and Evaluation • A fresh look at the Visible Learning research, which identifies the most powerful strategies for teaching and learning • Stories of best practices in action and examples from classrooms around the world Great teaching may come by chance, but it will come by design. Whether you’re new to teaching or looking to give your instruction a boost, take up the challenge and discover a new framework for teaching with true intentionality.

Book Front Cover

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  • Author : Alan Powers
  • Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
  • Release : 2004-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781845332426
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Front Cover written by Alan Powers and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't judge a book by its cover...but some covers simply speak for themselves. The most influential book jacket designs from throughout the 20th century are on display, and the fascinating images track their evolution from throwaway utilitarian "dust jackets" into a powerful modern art form. Three hundred hardcover and paperback book jackets appear in full color, including many from rare first editions seldom seen outside a serious collector's library. Accompanying analysis commemorates the contributions of top European and American artists like Victor Gollancz, Paul Rand, and Barnett Freedman; explains how cover art styles helped launch such publishing brands as Penguin and Bloomsbury; and explores the impact of today's digitally designed covers.

Book A Philosophy of Software Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Ousterhout
  • Publisher : Yaknyam Publishing
  • Release : 2018-04-10
  • ISBN : 9781732102200
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Philosophy of Software Design written by John Ousterhout and published by Yaknyam Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Street Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Dover
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-12-31
  • ISBN : 1118415949
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Street Design written by Victor Dover and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and cities—whether modest or grand—continually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for success in this art. The advice of Victor Dover and John Massengale, their historic examples and their own designs, reflect that simplicity." —From the Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales “Street Design is a lucid, practical and altogether indispensable guide for envisioning and creating vibrant 21st century towns and cities. It should be required reading for every local political leader, planner, architect, real estate developer and engaged urban citizen in America." —Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers "We are going to start walking around the places we live again, and as that occurs and becomes normal, we will rapidly redevelop a demand for higher quality in building at the human scale." —From the Afterword by James Howard Kunstler “Your charrette traveling library must include the important Street Design book by Victor Dover and John Massengale.”—Bill Lennertz, Executive Director, National Charrette Institute “What an amazing resource! For those who wish that my book, Walkable City, had pictures, this is the book for you. If either your work or your play includes the making of places, you will find Street Design to be an invaluable tool.” —Jeff Speck, AICP, CNU-A, LEED-AP, Hon. ASLA Written by two accomplished architects and urban designers, this user-friendly street design manual shows both how to design new streets and enhance existing ones. It offers step-by-step instruction and shares examples of excellent streets, examining the elements that make them successful as well as how they were designed and created. Topics also include strategies for shaping space in the public right-of-way through correct building height to street width ratios, terminated vistas, landscaping, and street geometry. This book is a valuable resource for urban designers, planners, architects, and engineers. With guest essays from: Kaid Benfield, David Brussat, Javier Cenicacelaya, Hank Dittmar, Andres Duany, Douglas Duany, Emily Glavey, Chip Kaufman, Ethan Kent, Marieanne Khoury-Vogt, Léon Krier, Gianni Longo, Thomas Low, Laura Lyon, Chuck Marohn, Paul Murrain, John Norquist, Stefanos Polyzoides, Gabriele Tagliaventi and Erik Vogt.

Book Design and Build Great Web APIs

Download or read book Design and Build Great Web APIs written by Mike Amundsen and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the "release into production" panic. Tackle just about any API challenge with more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. Good API design means starting with the API-First principle - understanding who is using the API and what they want to do with it - and applying basic design skills to match customers' needs while solving business-critical problems. Use the Sketch-Design-Build method to create reliable and scalable web APIs quickly and easily without a lot of risk to the day-to-day business operations. Create clear sequence diagrams, accurate specifications, and machine-readable API descriptions all reviewed, tested, and ready to turn into fully-functional NodeJS code. Create reliable test collections with Postman and implement proper identity and access control security with AuthO-without added cost or risk to the company. Deploy all of this to Heroku using a continuous delivery approach that pushes secure, well-tested code to your public servers ready for use by both internal and external developers. From design to code to test to deployment, unlock hidden business value and release stable and scalable web APIs that meet customer needs and solve important business problems in a consistent and reliable manner.

Book Atmosphere

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Michael Howard
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2019-03-12
  • ISBN : 1683355121
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Atmosphere written by James Michael Howard and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sought-after interior designer shares his principles for transforming four walls, a floor, and a ceiling into stunning poetry in space. Jim Howard creates luxe yet comfortable homes for sophisticated clients around the country. His design work is known for the sort of evocative atmosphere that characterizes the world’s great spaces. “Atmosphere” is the magic of a place, the embodiment of all its power to capture your attention and embrace you—some might call it the “wow factor.” But even as it excites, atmosphere also soothes, offering an overall feeling of well-being and calm. Howard wrote this book to convey all he has learned about crafting atmosphere at home, wherever that home may be, whatever aesthetic it might have. Doing so isn’t just a matter of rules or formulas; it is a science as much as an art, which Jim shares in a dozen captivating chapters.

Book Stand Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denise Anderson
  • Publisher : Peachpit Press
  • Release : 2015-12-28
  • ISBN : 0134134133
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Stand Out written by Denise Anderson and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design marketplace has never been more competitive, or demanded more from emerging talent. To succeed, you must navigate the transition from learner to professional with purpose and precision. In Stand Out: Building Your Design Portfolio, Denise Anderson offers a hands-on, three-step, full-color action plan for establishing your unique brand, crafting a killer portfolio, tailoring and delivering your message, getting your perfect design job, and excelling once you're hired. In this superbly organized and beautifully designed book, Anderson distills 20+ years of experience as a graphic designer, entrepreneur, instructor, and mentor, offering you powerful insights and easy-to-use tools for successfully launching your career. Whether you're in graphic design, advertising design, interactive or web design, fashion, or any other design field, Anderson will help you identify what makes you unique, and use it powerfully differentiate yourself from everyone else. Stand Out's step-by-step approach, hands-on work exercises, and short, easy-to-absorb chapters guide you through: Clarifying your brand purpose and unique attributes Designing your brand identity, encompassing all brand touchpoints Creating an online presence that showcases you at your best Self-promoting your brand, from social media to print "leave-behinds" Optimizing your portfolio for the industry and company where you want to work Discovering what's hot in portfolio design and strategy - and what's not Understanding what employers want from you Producing your digital and/or print portfolio Choosing your mentor(s) and creating your personal advisory board Developing a personal job plan you can start executing right now Protecting your work against theft Identifying your dream job Writing and designing outstanding resumes and job-specific cover letters Interviewing and presenting your work effectively Accepting a position and negotiating salary Succeeding in your first job, and preparing for the next Stand Out brings together all the easy-to-use forms, checklists, and tools you'll need... multiple examples of great student and young professional portfolio work to show you how it's done... dozens of great tips and tricks... "in the trenches" insights from recent graduates... all you need to get where you want to go!

Book Great Designs

Download or read book Great Designs written by Philip Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics ever created - from the 1860s to the present. Discover the story of design and its evolution from the industrial revolution to the modern day - from William Morris wallpaper and the Swiss Army Knife to 21st-century icons of design such as the Apple iPad and Philippe Starck's Masters Chair. With stunning photography and useful explanatory pull-outs of characteristic features, each entry shows you the numerous ways in which art and engineering have created products that are both functional and beautiful. Comprehensive profiles of each celebrated design explain why each one was created, and who for, and how innovations in technology and materials made its creation possible. Covering design from the everyday to the avant-garde, and from interior design to furniture, glassware, tableware, textiles, cars, electronics, and graphics, Great Designs is perfect for anyone who loves beautiful objects.