Design Books

New and Published Books

1. Visual Communication on the Web

   By xtine burrough, Paul Martin Lester

   Most web design books developed for the trade market are a series of exercises without a theoretical, aesthetic, or historic framework. In this book, Visual Communication on the Web, web design exercises are accompanied by concise introductions that relate history, design principles, and...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

   By Penny Sparke

   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. How Architects Write

   By Tom Spector, Rebecca Damron

   This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design. Authors Tom Spector and Rebecca Damron present typical writing...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

   How Design Activism Confronts Growth

   By Ann Thorpe

   The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Diagramming the Big Idea

   Methods for Architectural Composition

   By Jeffrey Balmer, Michael Swisher

   As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. Design and Ethics

   Reflections on Practice

   Edited by Emma Felton, Oksana Zelenko, Suzi Vaughan

   The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling. Approaches to...

   Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Designing for Newspapers and Magazines

   2nd Edition

   By Chris Frost

   Series: Media Skills

   A hugely beneficial introduction to students and professionals in print media and design, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines offers guidance on how to produce attractive publications and how to tailor them to their target audience using colour, text placement, typography and images.Written by...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Art and Aesthetics

   Edited by Marta Herrero, David Inglis

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social...

   Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
9. Material Culture

   Edited by Victor Buchli

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Material culture is the study of material products of human manufacturing processes, or 'the history of things'. Since material culture studies re-emerged within Anglo-American archaeology and anthropology in the late 1960s, this field of study has spread to a variety of other disciplines including...

   Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge