Download or read book Designa written by Adam Tetlow and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever stared at patterned wallpaper and wondered how it was designed? Been captivated by some priceless Celtic art? Or boggled at a beautiful Islamic pattern? Have you ever stepped back and thought about the illusion of reality your senses create for you? Or pondered the symmetries which inform your feelings of what seems right? Is there a Golden secret, revealed by nature herself, which is common to all of the traditional arts? Packed with information and exquisite illustrations by more than twelve expert authors, Designa is the ultimate sourcebook for visual artists and designers of every kind.
Download or read book The Art of Game Design written by Jesse Schell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner: Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.
Download or read book The Art of Game Design written by Jesse Schell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible, and award-winning author Jesse Schell presents over 100 sets of questions to ask yourself as you build, play and change your game until you finalise your design. This latest third edition includes examples from new VR and AR platforms as well as from modern games such as Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us, Free to Play games, hybrid games, transformational games, and more. Whatever your role in video game development an understanding of the principles of game design will make you better at what you do. For over 10 years this book has provided inspiration and guidance to budding and experienced game designers - helping to make better games faster.
Download or read book Design a Better Business written by Patrick van der Pijl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before, guiding readers (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world. This book also features over 50 case studies and real life examples from large corporations such as ING Bank, Audi, Autodesk, and Toyota Financial Services, to small startups, incubators, and social impact organizations, providing a behind the scenes look at the best practices and pitfalls to avoid. Also included are personal insights from thought leaders such as Steve Blank on innovation, Alex Osterwalder on business models, Nancy Duarte on storytelling, and Rob Fitzpatrick on questioning, among others.
Download or read book Paradise Rot written by Jenny Hval and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.
Download or read book The Art of Game Design written by Jesse Schell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.
Download or read book Design A Business Case written by Brigitte Borja de Mozota and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills–to bridge mind and matter, image and identity. Design thinking is a framework developed to ensure C-suite endorsement of the pursuit of design excellence in all actions undertaken by the organization. Design management is a rigorous and strategically anchored mechanism to capitalize on the investment in design as intellectual capital. And design – as we’ve always known it – is the skills, methods and creative capabilities needed to embody ideas and direction. Design thinking inspires, design management enables, design embodies. This book aims to build the bridges needed to reconcile the three, and to encourage organizational and professional environments in which their combined forces can thrive and reverberate.
Download or read book Work Design written by Adedeji B. Badiru and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work is all around us and permeates everything we do and everyday activities. Not all work is justified, not all work is properly designed, or evaluated accurately, or integrated. A systems model will make work more achievable through better management. Work is defined as a process of performing a defined task or activity, such as research, development, operations, maintenance, repair, assembly, production, and so on. Very little is written on how to design, evaluate, justify, and integrate work. Using a comprehensive systems approach, this book facilitates a better understanding of work for the purpose of making it more effective and rewarding.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Fabric Design written by Kimberly Kight and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, step-by-step resource for fabric design and printing—including tips from top designers. If you’ve ever dreamed of showing your designs on fabric, textile aficionado Kim Kight, of popular blog True Up, is here to teach you how. Comprehensive and refreshingly straightforward, this impressive volume features two main parts. First, the Design and Color section explains the basics with step-by-step tutorials on creating repeating patterns both by hand and on the computer. Next, the Printing section guides you through transferring those designs on fabric—whether it's block printing, screen printing, digital printing or licensing to a fabric company—and how to determine the best method for you. Includes extensive photos and illustrations
Download or read book Comprehensive Systems Design A New Educational Technology written by Charles Reigeluth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-08-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational technology in the broadest sense is knowledge and competence forimproving the educational process: for using hardware (equipment), software (methods), and "underware" (underlying organizational structures). This volume in the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology presents the results of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on educational systems design as a new educational technology. The objective of the workshop was toadvance our knowledge about the comprehensive systems design approach for improving educational systems. The workshop was organized for the transdisciplinary interaction of three scientific groups representing design science, organizational/systems science, and educationaltechnology. Participants were selected based on their scholarship as members of one or more of these three groups. The book opens with theframing papers sent by the editors to participants prior to the workshop, then presents five sets of thematic contributions: the conceptual and empirical contexts of comprehensive systems design, the systems design focus, a systems view of designing educational systems, the educational context of systems design, and high technology focus in systems design.
Download or read book Hawaiiana written by Mark Blackburn and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book captures the romance and allure of the Hawaiian Islands from 1900 to 1959. The objects shown in the book all are from collections in Hawaii-Aloha attire, jewelry, paper goods and prints, dolls, woodenware, and souvenirs. This is the first comprehensive overview of Hawaiian objects and designs to be published, containing both the typical and the inspired patterns that are so eagerly sought after.
Download or read book Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students Teachers and Craftsmen written by William H. Varnum and published by Scott, Foresman and Company. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Arts Design : A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen Place for the Book. As a textbook, Industrial Arts Design is a practical guide for designing in wood, clay, and base and precious metals. It is intended for individual student use in the High Schools, Normal Schools, and Colleges and as a reference book for elementary school teachers. Its more complex problems are intended as definite helps to the industrial arts designer or craftsman. The wood problems are treated with special reference to their adaptability to bench and cabinet work. Need of the Book. It has been written to fill a decided demand for a textbook that shall, without loss of time, directly apply well-recognized principles of general design to specific materials and problems encountered in the Industrial Arts. A brief description of the decorative processes adapted to the materials under discussion with the design principles directly applying to these processes, insures designs that may be worked out in the studio or shop. It is hoped that this provision will eliminate the large number of impractical designs that are frequently entirely unfitted to the technic of the craft. This lack of mutual technical understanding between the teacher of design and the shop work instructor is the cause of friction that it is hoped will be removed by the methods advocated in these pages. The Author's Motive. It has been the intention to reduce unrelated and abstract theories to a minimum and reach directly rules and conclusions that shall be applicable to typical materials in common use in the schools and industries. The original conception materialized in the publication of a series of articles upon Design in the Industrial Arts Magazine, in 1915. These articles were favorably received and their results in the schools proved highly satisfactory. Through this encouragement, the articles have been reprinted in book form, enriched by the addition of illustrations, review questions, and three chapters on color with its applications. Industrial Arts Design develops the principles of industrial design in a new and logical form which, it is believed, will simplify the teaching of craft design. Chapters I to V deal with the elementary problems confronting the designer as he begins the first steps on his working drawing; Chapters VI to VIII show the methods by which he may express his individuality through contour or outline enrichment, while Chapters IX to XVII explain the treatment of the most difficult form of decoration, that of surface enrichment. The Appendix. The appendix is added to show the manner in which the rules may be directly applied to a course of study in either pottery or art metal. The present work is not intended to include the chemistry of glaze mixing or other technical requirements to which reference is made in the appendix; consequently the reader is referred to "The Potter's Craft" by C.F. Binns and "Pottery" by George J. Cox for fuller explanations of the formulae and technicalities of the craft. Source of Principles. The principles herein advocated are directly related to architectural design which is to be regarded as the standard authority for the industrial arts designer. It was necessary to state these principles in the form of sufficiently flexible rules which would allow the student to use his own judgment, but at the same time, restrict him to the essential principles of good design. Rules. This presentation of the principles of design by means of flexible rules in concrete form, serves to vitalize design by virtue of their immediate application to the material. The rules likewise save time for both pupil and instructor. This is regarded as an important factor, inasmuch as the amount of time usually allotted to classroom teaching of design is limited. While these rules are applied to the specific materials, the designer may readily adjust them to other materials and find them equally applicable. Direct copying of designs from the illustrations is a dangerous expedient and is to be discouraged as a form of plagiarism which will eventually destroy the student's initiative, originality, and reputation for creative work. Results. From the tests so far observed, it has been seen that under design guidance, the projects become more noticeably individual in character, lighter and better in construction, and more fully adjusted to their environment. The student's interest and initiative in his work are strengthened, and he completes the truly valuable cycle of the educative process of evolving his own idea and crystallizing it in the completed work. It is hoped that this book will tend to develop higher standards of good design in schools, industrial establishments, and the home. In conclusion, the author expresses his thanks to the following for their valuable suggestions and assistance in contributed illustrations: Miss D.F. Wilson, Miss Edna Howard, Miss Elizabeth Upham, Miss A.M. Anderson, Mr. J.M. Dorrans, Mr. J.B. Robinson, author of "Architectural Composition," and others to whom reference is made in the text.
Download or read book Natural Design a new theory of evolution written by Matthew Turner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book painstakingly explains why Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is an inadequate and only pseudo-scientific explanation for evolution. A properly scientific theory of evolution is then outlined. The question of how to fit such an extreme theory into a human world view concludes the discussion.
Download or read book IT Architect Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design A Practical Guide for IT Architects written by John Yani Arrasjid, VCDX-001 and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the IT Architect series helps aspiring & experienced IT infrastructure architects/administrators, and those pursuing infrastructure design certifications, establish a solid foundation in the art of infrastructure design. The three autho
Download or read book How to Design a Nursery That Grows with Your Child written by Aurora Brooks and published by BabyDreamers.net. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Design a Nursery That Grows with Your Child is the ultimate guide for parents who want to create a nursery that will adapt and evolve as their child grows. This short read book provides practical tips and advice on how to design a nursery that is not only beautiful and functional but also flexible enough to accommodate the changing needs of a growing child. The book begins by emphasizing the importance of choosing a neutral color palette. By opting for neutral colors, parents can create a calming and soothing environment that can easily be updated with accessories as the child's preferences change over time. Investing in convertible furniture is another key aspect discussed in this book. Convertible cribs, changing tables, and dressers can be transformed into toddler beds, desks, and storage units, ensuring that the furniture will grow with the child and eliminate the need for constant replacements. Versatile storage solutions are also highlighted as essential in designing a nursery that grows with the child. From modular shelving units to multi-functional storage bins, this book provides various ideas on how to maximize storage space and keep the nursery organized as the child's belongings multiply. Choosing timeless decor is another important consideration. By opting for classic and enduring design elements, parents can avoid the need for frequent updates and create a space that will remain stylish and relevant for years to come. The book also emphasizes the importance of creating designated areas within the nursery. A play area, open shelving for displaying toys and books, a reading nook, and a study and homework space are all discussed in detail, providing parents with practical ideas on how to incorporate these areas into the nursery design. Safety features and the use of non-toxic materials are also addressed in this book. Parents will find valuable information on how to ensure the nursery is a safe and healthy environment for their child. Additionally, the book encourages parents to include personal touches and allow for personalization in the nursery design. From creating a growth chart to incorporating sentimental items, these personal touches add warmth and character to the space. With its comprehensive table of contents and practical advice, How to Design a Nursery That Grows with Your Child is a must-read for any parent looking to create a nursery that will adapt and evolve alongside their child. Get your copy today and start designing a nursery that will stand the test of time. This title is a short read. A Short Read is a type of book that is designed to be read in one quick sitting. These no fluff books are perfect for people who want an overview about a subject in a short period of time. Table of Contents How to Design a Nursery That Grows with Your Child Choose a Neutral Color Palette Invest in Convertible Furniture Opt for Versatile Storage Solutions Choose Timeless Decor Create a Play Area Include Open Shelving Consider a Reading Nook Plan for Study and Homework Consider Safety Features Anchor Furniture Choose Non-Toxic Materials Allow for Personalization Create a Growth Chart Include Personal Touches Adapt the Space as Needed Frequently Asked Questions Have Questions / Comments?
Download or read book Design a Healthy Home written by Oliver Heath and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With indoor air pollution at its worst, and many of us spending more time in our own homes, this interior design guide will help you create calm, social, and comfortable spaces. Let leading sustainability architect, Oliver Heath, give you all the practical solutions you need to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing. Inside the pages of this home decor book, you’ll discover how to detoxify your home by making small changes. It includes: • 100 tried and tested, research-based design ideas to support your health and wellbeing in even the smallest of spaces • Stylish, fun, and affordable home design tips based on the latest research in sustainable, biophilic design You're never going to be able to control the environment in the grocery store or your office, but your home is a completely different story. You are in charge of your living space, so why not make it as healthy as can be? Based on the latest evidence and research in wellbeing and biophilic design, this practical guide will show you how to create a restorative and nurturing environment - no matter the size of your space. The ideas and solutions included in this book have been devised with easy implementation in mind. Optimize lighting in your home by using reflective surfaces for a brighter space, follow a ventilation checklist to replenish the air in your home and remove pollutants, or unlock the powers of a tech-free bedroom for a better night's sleep. Whatever your budget and whether you rent or own your property, you can use these creative ideas to make your home a sanctuary.
Download or read book Mastering the Art of Book Design A Comprehensive Guide written by Ariesto Hadi Sutopo and published by Topazart. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mastering the Art of Book Design: A Comprehensive Guide,” a captivating world of book design. Whether you are a budding author with a story to share, a self-publisher looking to enhance your book’s visual appeal, or simply a design enthusiast seeking to deepen your knowledge, this book is here to inspire and empower you. Within the pages of this guide, we have curated a wealth of valuable insights, principles, techniques, and strategies that will equip you with the tools to create visually stunning and professionally designed books. From cover to cover, we will unravel the secrets of effective layout, typography, color schemes, and imagery, all while keeping in mind the unique requirements of both digital and printed formats. Throughout this journey, we will delve into the artistry behind book design, exploring the interplay between text and visuals, the nuances of typefaces and typography, and the meticulous attention to detail that elevates a book from ordinary to extraordinary. You will discover the importance of balance, rhythm, and harmony in creating harmonious layouts and compelling compositions. Whether you choose to follow the path of traditional publishing or embrace the freedom of self-publishing, this book will empower you to create books that showcase your content and leave a lasting impression on readers.
