Scenography as New Ideology in Contemporary Curating and the Notion of Staging in Exhibitions
In the frontier of the museum & public exhibition scene, a contemporary artistic staging practice, called scenography, has grew out from the theatre context and keeps expanding its influence in the exhibition design context in the rise of experience economy.
NUNO: Visionary Japanese Textiles
A career-spanning monograph of the work of NUNO, one of Japan’s most innovative and respected textile design studios.
OPTIC: Optical Effects in Graphic Design
The purpose of ‘Optic’ to attempt a survey of optical effects in graphic design and to help distinguish their various forms.
Non-Extractive Architecture
Through a series of essays by architects, geographers, historians, economists, urbanists, and philosophers, Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion explores whether an alternative paradigm in design is possible, and what values it might be founded on.
Real Life in Real Time - Live Streaming Culture
The cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces.
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering.
Aquí lo dejo
In this book, Lluís Morillas, president of Morillas, Spain’s longest-running brand consultancy, which has been at the helm of Spanish design for 60 years, shares the professional and personal lessons he has learned throughout his intense career.
Herman Miller: A Way of Living
For more than 100 years, Michigan-based Herman Miller has played a central role in the evolution of modern and contemporary design, producing timeless classics while creating a culture that has had a remarkable impact on the development of the design world.
Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design
This book presents Dieter Rams' aesthetic philosophy through highlights from a forty-year career designing iconic consumer products that enhance our daily lives.
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia
Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession.
Suiting Children for Institutions: The Development, Calibration and Stabilization of the One-piece Snowsuit
This article presents a study of the design history of the snowsuit as a product type and explores the constitutive factors in its development.
Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications
Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches.
On the Street: In-Between Architecture
On the secret life and future of street furniture in both the contemporary imagination and the city streets themselves.
Experiencing Design - The Innovators Journey
Drawing on decades of researching design thinking and teaching it to people not trained in design, Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, and Jessica Eldridge offer a guide for how to create these deep experiences at each stage of the design thinking journey, whether for an individual, a team, or an organization.
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces." --The New York Times Book Review
The Secret Lives of Colour
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
Making Design Theory
A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.
Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds
Human-centered design is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, and numerous design works and shows the way to a relational and expansive design based on humility and cohabitation.
Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts
An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Demonstrates why design can--and must--lead the transition to a sustainable future.