Best Design Books

At the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ?languages,? which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable m...

The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the highresolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improvin...

You don?t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That?s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put re...

A manifesto of business practices for those who sell ideas and advice, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto lays out twelve stepsin the form of proclamationsthat owners of creative businesses can take to distance themselves from their competition, regain the high ground in their client relationships and learn to win business without first parting...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Design, DesignArt, Game, Development lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A globetrotting, eyeopening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource cr...

How do successful companies create products people cant put downWhy do some products capture widespread attention while others flop What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook usNir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Modela fourstep process e...

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical example...

One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series in Penguin Modern Classics.'The designer of today reestablishes the longlost contact between art and ...

The organization of letters on a blank sheet?or screen?is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use How big How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupto...

All the secrets to creating a brand identity that resonates across every aspect of a businessincluding its Web site and overall strategy! With clients like Kodak, Sun, and Procter and Gamble, author Marty Neumeier is one of today's most wellknown and respected authorities on the topic of branding. Quick, easy approach and a wealth of case stu...

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough revision and updating of the longest chapter, "Prowling the Specimen Books," and many other small but important updates bas...

The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on Technology,powered products. That includes the hundreds of "tech companie...

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to...

The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables. Whether you want to cross over into user experience or you're a seasoned practitioner trying to drag your organization forward, this book gives you tools and insight for doing more...

"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the oneway, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, th...

The three editions of "About Face" have shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design, bringing it from the research labs into every day lexicon and development. The fourth edition of this groundbreaking book will be no less game changing.The 4th edition of "About Face "is the most significant revision yet, with a new unique design and 4c...

For nearly 20 years, designers and nondesigners alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and lighthearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fo...

What?s your type Suddenly everyone?s obsessed with fonts. Whether you?re enraged by Ikea?s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it?s okay to like Comic Sans, Just My Type will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Din...

Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from the rigorous constraints of designing for real users, scifi production designers develop bluesky interfaces that are inspiring, humorous, and even instructive. By carefully studying these "outsider" user interfaces, designers can derive lessons that...

The strange saga of American Architecture, in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement as Wolfe debunks the European gods of modern and postmodern Architecture, and their American counterparts....

Conventional product development focuses on the solution. Empathy is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you to understand their thinking patterns and perspectives. Practical Empathy will show you how to gather and compare these patterns to make better decisions, improve your strategy, and collaborate successfully....

"Reading Petroski's fine book is not only a delight, it is a necessity." Houston ChronicleHow did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s?the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940 How did an oversi...

"More than just a story of an abiding cultural preoccupation, The Longing For Less peels back the commodified husk of minimalism to reveal something surprising and thoroughly alive." Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing "Thoughtful and absorbing . . . A superb outing from a gifted young critic that will spark joy in many readers." Kirkus Rev...

The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid?fifteenth century to the present day. Arranged chronologically to provide context, more than 320 typefaces are displayed in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printing. Each entr...

Better Web Typography for a Better Web is a book is based on a toprated online course explaining typography to people who build web sites?web designers and web developers. The author, Matej Latin, takes complex concepts such as vertical rhythm, modular scale and page composition, and explains them in a simple way. The content of the book is accomp...

Ideal for students of design, independent designers, and entrepreneurs who want to expand their understanding of effective design in business, Identity Designed is the definitive guide to visual branding. Written by bestselling writer and renowned designer David Airey, Identity Designed formalizes the process and the benefits of brand identity d...

Students and professionals in any creative field can benefit from a good typographic eye. The Anatomy of Type (The Geometry of Type in the UK) is all about looking more closely at letters. Through visual diagrams and practical descriptions, you?ll learn how to distinguish between related typefaces and see how the attributes of letterforms (such as ...

Achieving a thorough grasp of typography can take a lifetime, but moving beyond the basics is within your reach right now. In this book, we?ll learn how to look at typefaces with a discerning eye, different approaches to typographic planning, how typography impacts the act of reading, and how to choose and combine appropriate typefaces from an aest...

A bestselling practical introduction to typography, this book analyzes the basic principles and applications of type. In this revised and expanded edition, the author includes more on digital type, as well as new material on setting of type, choosing an appropriate typeface, and the use of colour to reinforce typographic hierarchy. The section on ...

Cofounder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, this brief book is packed with knowledge you can?t afford not to know....

Whether you're the project manager for your company's rebrand, or you need to educate your staff or your students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. From research to brand strategy to design execution, launch, and governance, Designing Brand Identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and b...

Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page layout intact.B...

From the risingstar designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a fullcolor, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style.Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home c...

Game Feel exposes feel as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord progressions, verse)?no matter the instruments, style or time period?these building blocks come into play. Feel and sensation are similar building blocks where game ...

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game?changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative?they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.Why In The Design of Busines...

Style is a luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.Over the years, founding editor in chief of domino magazine Deborah Needleman has seen all kinds of rooms, with all kinds of furnishings. Her conclusion: It's not hard to create a relaxed, stylish, and comfortable home. Just a few wellconsidered items can completely change the feel of yo...

For anyone looking to declutter, organize, and simplify, author Erin Boyle shares practical guidance and personal insights on smallspace living and conscious consumption. At once pragmatic and philosophical, Simple Matters is a nod to the growing consensus that living simply and purposefully is more sustainable not only for the environment, but fo...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Design, Fiction, Art, Personal Development lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place. Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses, demonstrating how to seamlessly mix and layer prints througho...

Sanzo Wada (18831967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avantgarde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. Based on his original 6volume work from the 1930...

Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a stateoftheart bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design In this compelling and wideranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built s...

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games.This is a renaissance moment for video gamesin the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion In How Games Move Us...

A standardbearer of American design since 1993, House Industries answers the burning question, "Where do you find inspiration" with this illustrative collection of helpful lessons, stories, and case studies that demonstrate how to transform obsessive curiosity into personally satisfying and successful work. Presented in House's honest, authentic,...

Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in com­mon: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic ...

Color is an integral part of any design solution. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals is an essential resource for designers who want to create memorable design and successfully communicate with their audience. It is the second book in Rockport's Design Elements series, which focuses on the core elements of design.With this book, designers will:?Le...

Brand new: An unprecedented catalog of modern trademarks Modernist aesthetics in Architecture,, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the con...

Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of emptiness in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visi...

An attractive, interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader; but when the details are not good, reading requires more effort and any pleasure is shortlived. Detail in typography is a concise and closeup view of the subject. It considers all the elements that constitute a column of text letters, words, the line, and the space a...

"...reviews the historic development of western script...Photographs clearly show how to hold and angle the pen in order to recreate 26 different styles of lettering...". Library Journal...

Michael Johnson is one of the world?s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has garnered a plethora of awards in the process.In Branding, Johnson strips everyday brands d...

Another selfindulgent design monograph (practically everything we have ever designed including the bad stuff) is Stefan Sagmeister's handscrawled subtitle for the first book about his work, Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silvergilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up...

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For her first book in ten years, Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and fascinating designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent interiors, here inviting readers into her latest creations including her newly designed home.Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of oldworld Hol...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Design, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

An indispensable new guide for developing and designing typefaces One of the most essential tools of graphic design, typography influences the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, op...

From ancient Chinese civilization to the postmodern world Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture, presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an allstar team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the co...

Rural escapes for those yearning for a simpler existence, by the creators of the wildly popular tumblr Cabin Porn.Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New YorkCabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which i...

Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today's designers.Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are sty...

This is a monograph, manual and manifesto by one of the world's leading graphic designers. Protege of design legend Massimo Vignelli and partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram, Michael Bierut has had one of the most varied careers of any living graphic designer. The 35 projects Bierut presents in this book illustr...

Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or ecommerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and...

Graphic Design which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of twodimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sansserifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups is not good design if it is irrelevant.Graphic design which evokes the symmet...

This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of" Swiss Graphic Design " in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef MullerBrockmann'sposters have become world famous for their ability to convey information withgreat visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means.He created a body of work in which timeless principl...

This valuable materials directory for professional dressmakers and fashion designers is also a good reference source for students of fashion design, as well as for those who make their own garments. The author points out the best fabrics for creating specific garments, explaining how each fabric's qualities make it suitable for various items of app...

Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them t...

For all the resources on great design, there is almost nothing on how to be a great design professional. For all the schools and classes and workshops on what constitutes a good user experience, there is not one bit of formalized education on how to earn the respect of your team and get your recommendations out the door.Sure, they?ll teach you how ...

THE FIRST BOOK WITH ONE FOOT ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND ONE FOOT IN THECLASSROOMJoe McNally, one of the world's top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever doneblending the rich, stunn...

Los Logos 7 is the authoritative reference on contemporary logo design worldwide. Like the previous editions of Gestalten?s Los Logos series, the book is both a guide to the latest innovations as well as a precursor to coming trends.The 400page, fully indexed compendium presents an unparalleled selection of cuttingedge examples from around the gl...

Karl Aspelund takes readers on a guided tour of seven stages of design, from Inspiration, Identification, Conceptualization, Exploration/Refinement, Definition/Modeling, Communication and Production. New cumulative storyboards of three different types of designs (graphics, clothing, and web design) progress through each stage to show how each setp ...

Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest highend system, or even hearing them on a screenreader, their experience should be easy t...

This Monocle book tells us how to turn a house into a home. Both a practical guide and a great source of inspiration, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes presents the interiors, furniture, and locations you need to know about along with portraits of the people who can make it happen. The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes celebrates the durable and the meanin...

Quirky, poignant, astute, funny?this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by worldrenowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes. In Stefan Sagmeister's telling words, Bantjes's work is his "favorite example of beauty facilitating the communication of meaning."...

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventyfive fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to im...

Good ideas are hard to find. Execution can be difficult. How should you be focusing your efforts What will your idea look like in real life Where do you start And how do you know when you've got the right solutionCreated by three partners at Google Ventures, the sprint is a unique fiveday process aimed at helping businesses to answer crucial q...

Our critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first indepth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical examples of past efforts to make sense of complex systems of information. In this new companion volume, The Book of Trees, data viz expert Manuel Lima exam...

At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as well as the essential qualities of life. Geometry of Designthe f...

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people will want to play again and again. Author Mike Selinker (Betrayal at House on the Hill) has invited some of the world's most talented and experienced game designers to share their secrets on game conception, design, development, and presentation. In ...

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a highstakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual exp...

You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.You can get off the merrygoround.It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghett...

Domino: The Book of Decorating cracks the code to creating a beautiful home, bringing together inspiring rooms, howto advice and insiders' secrets from today's premier tastemakers in an indispensable style manual. The editors take readers room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and culling insights from their own experiences. Wit...

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers current thinking ab...

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.This is a book that students of Architecture, will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clea...

What happens when you've built a great website or app, but no one seems to care How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction. This beauti...

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and selfdriving cars, even as we use augmentedre...

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for lefthanded people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color ...

This book is practical and immediate, without being condescending or overly technical. It is like having a graphic design mentor who will help you come up with ideas, develop your concepts, and implement them in a way that is engaging and humorous. It gives readers the experience and ability that normally comes from years of onthejob training. Al...

Put the power to design logos and type in your own hands!Why be a designer who must rely upon preexisting typefaces and clip art when you can become the kind of designer who creates logos, fonts and lettering of your own Leslie Cabarga, author of the bestselling "Designer's Guide to Color Combinations," has created a textbook of type for the exper...

Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, her first book, Lauren invites readers to bring nature inside by mixing the textures of natural elements such as wood and stone with eclectic groupings of m...

With a foreword by Miles Redd, this luxurious decorating resource trains the eye to recognize enduring, quality home goods and to use them to dazzling design effect.Quality matters. Just as a home?s foundation should be built to stand the test of time, so, too, should the furniture, objects, and elements of our rooms speak to an enduring sense of b...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Design, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young desig...

The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial bestseller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, wh...

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailormade for today's agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate desig...

In her design book, Homebody: A Guide To Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. This comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and your instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps fo...

IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are th...

Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity If so, then this book is for you.Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exer...

Grayson Perry?s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about ?art? Now Grayson Perry is a fully paidup member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he?s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey thr...

Building an æsthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts such as play, design and interactivity. They look at games through a series of eighteen game design schemata or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of information, emergent complexity, as contexts for social, cultural and educational storytelling, a...

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, bestselling author Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type, Type on Screen) and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design, from logo or letterhead to a ...