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Omega and After
Bloomsbury and the decorative arts The Bloomsbury Group was largely composed of writers and intellectuals, but there were lots of artists and designers within their ranks too. This well illustrated...
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Charleston: Past and Present
official guide to one of Bloomsbury’s cultural treasures Charleston is the country house in Lewes, Sussex which was established as a family home by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She was married to...
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Design Management
managing design strategy, processes and implementation This new title from publishers AVA deals with the business aspects of design projects. I imagine the ideal readers would be students of design who...
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Bauhaus
Design history: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933 The Bauhaus was a major landmark in the development of modernism in the early years of the last century. In concept it grew out of the German desire to...
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Design of the 20th Century
pocketbook guide to major modern designers These Taschen pocketbooks are very well produced, with high quality print, full colour illustrations, and they are amazingly cheap. I’ve bought several of...
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Industrial Design A-Z
influential 20C designers, companies, and products These Taschen pocketbooks are very well produced, with high quality print, full colour illustrations, and amazingly cheap. I’ve bought several of...
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Designing the 21st Century
contemporary world product design and designers This is a block-busting compendium of design and designers which is as smack up to date as it’s possible to be. It’s arranged in alphabetical order,...
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Milton Glaser: Art is Work
graphic design, interiors, objects and illustration Don’t be put off by the cover design – this is a wonderful book. Milton Glaser is one of the most influential design and illustration gurus of the...
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Design: A Short Introduction
themes, principles, and categories of design John Heskett kicks off this brief study by defining the term ‘design’ and shows fairly convincingly that it can cover a wide range of activities which...
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Design Since 1900
encyclopedia of modern design and designers This is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of modern design. It covers graphics, consumer products, interior decor, furniture, print, advertising, plus...
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Dictionary of Graphic Design
illustrated encyclopedia of all matters related to design This is a comprehensive guide to international developments in graphic design. From pre-industrial printing presses and medieval typography to...
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The Struggle for Utopia
Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy 1917-1946 This is a series of essays tracing the development of three ground-breaking artists who deliberately harnessed their design skills during the highpoint of...
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Cradle to Cradle
re-thinking the way we make things Cradle to Cradle is the programme for a philosophy of ecological design principles based on a consciousness of the global environment. IT raises fundamental issues...
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Design in the USA
Product design in America 1800-2000 Design in the USA is much more interesting than its rather plain title suggests. It’s a very scholarly approach to the subject, incorporating both the economic and...
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Subject to Change
creating products and services for an uncertain world This book is about design theory for the digital age, and aspires to be read alongside Viktor Papanek’s Design for the Real Word and Donald...
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The Design of Everyday Things
classic design principles using everyday objects Donald Norman is a product design and usability guru who has teamed up recently with Jakob Nielsen to form the influential Nielsen-Norman Group. They...
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Emotional Design
why we love (and hate) the everyday objects we use Donald Norman is famous for The Design of Everyday Things – a best-selling study of the need for functionality in consumer product design. It’s no...
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Design for the Real World
human-centred and ecological design principles Design for the Real World is often tipped in design circles as one of the best overall guides to ethical design theory and practice, along with Donald...
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Tools for Complex Projects
large scale project management skills Tools for Complex Projects is not just about project management – but the management of complex and large scale projects. That complexity might be structural...
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Dictionary of Modern Design
design, designers, products, movements, influences This Dictionary of Modern Design is a serious textual resource on design matters, written by somebody who is quite clearly steeped in his subject....
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