design

A comprehensive guide to modern design that examines the work of important designers around the world and the changes that have influenced design and its uses over the last century.

Explores careers in the field of design including architects and desktop publishing specialists, merchandise displayers, and software designers, and provides information on educational and training requirements, advancement possibilities, salary, and more.

Presents an illustrated introduction to the history of design, discussing its application to houses and furnishings, architecture, tools, clothes, weapons, and in many other fields.

More than Sixty street artists, including D*Face, Blek Le Rat, and Miss Van, discuss their work and inspirations.

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on international product design, covering twentieth- and twenty-first-century designers and studios, design-led manufacturers, and products; and includes nearly three thousand color photographs, and cross-references.

Explores the science of affect and emotion to discover why people develop emotional connections to everyday objects such as cars or teapots, and looks at how a designer's mood can influence the product he or she creates.

A guide to working with clay, tracing the history of ceramics; presenting examples of contemporary American clayworks; describing and illustrating various forming and decorating techniques; examining the principles of ceramic design; and discussing safety and marketing.