Design

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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 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 ...

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...

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...

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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...