industriel design

The Industrial design reader

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This pioneering anthology focuses exclusively on the history of industrial design. Sixty full-length primary source essays detail the most crucial movements, issues and accomplishments of industrial design. Written by a wide range of experts - designers, theorists, critics, adve…

Geometry of design: Studies in proportion and composition

by Elam, Kimberly

fromDesign briefs

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The very first volume in our acclaimed Design Briefs series is now available in a revised and updated second edition. Geometry of Design is a comprehensive overview of the principles of proportion and composition. Using detailed diagrams and vellum overlays, author Kimberly Elam…

Make It New: the History of Silicon Valley Design

by Maeda, John, Katz, Barry M.

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California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design pr…

Iconic Designs: 50 Stories About 50 Things

by Lees-Maffei, Grace

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Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' - designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei explores the idea of iconicity and what ma…

Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism

by Twemlow, Alice

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Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for t…

Visible signs: an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts

by Crow, David

fromRequired reading range. Course reader

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Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics" (2nd Edition) is an update to the popular first edition of the same name, in which David Crow introduces design students to the fundamentals of semiotics. Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual …

Post-ductility: metals in architecture and engineering

fromColumbia books on architecture, engineering and materials

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Metals, as surface or structure, play a role in nearly every strain of modern architecture. Non-architectural metals in the form of automobiles and hard goods are the engines of our sprawling cities. Known for superior strength, metals allow us to build higher and span greater d…