Art & Visual Culture: Design

By Alastair Fuad-Luke

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the…

Paperback – 2009-05-28
Routledge

By Stephen Emmitt

Building on the special edition Aspects of Design Management (Volume 3:1, 2007), this publication brings together the rapidly developing field of design management with that of environmental sustainability. Eight articles drawn from around the world help to provide some critical insights into the…

Paperback – 2009-05-19
Routledge
Architectural Engineering and Design Management

By Susan Ruddick Bloom

Have you ever considered using Photoshop to create fine art?Photoshop is usually used for enhancing photos, but this extremely powerful software package is capable of so much more. Every feature, from brushes to background, can be customised and optimised for artistic effect. With a little guidance…

Paperback – 2009-02-02
Routledge

By Peter Stansinoupolos, Michael H Smith, Karlson Hargroves, Cheryl Desha

Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic…

Paperback – 2008-12-19
Routledge

By Brian Edwards

This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings…

Paperback – 2008-09-05
Taylor & Francis

By Janis Birkeland

Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability…

Paperback – 2008-08-20
Routledge

By Michael V. Dr Frank

The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider safety as a factor in design and engineering. Through more than a dozen practical examples from the author�s experience in nuclear power, aerospace,…

Paperback – 2008-08-19
Routledge

Edited by Ben Highmore

Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change…

Paperback – 2008-08-08
Routledge

Edited by Sandra Alfoldy, Janice Helland

Constructed space is defined by its shape, by the materials with which it is enclosed and by the objects that are placed within or decorate its exterior or interior. The interaction of these crafted objects or decorated surfaces with space provides viewers or inhabitants with visual clues about the…

Hardback – 2008-03-26
Routledge

By Tracy Bhamra, Vicky Lofthouse

Design for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century. It is written from a design perspective and aimed at both professional and student industrial and product designers, and those…

Hardback – 2007-12-21
Routledge
Design for Social Responsibility

By Roger Coleman, John Clarkson, Julia Cassim

Inclusive design not only ensures that products, services, interfaces and environments are easier to use for those with special needs or limitations, but in doing so also makes them better for everyone. Design for Inclusivity, written by a team that has pioneered inclusive design practice…

Hardback – 2007-12-21
Routledge
Design for Social Responsibility

Edited by Tom Inns

As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often…

Hardback – 2007-12-21
Routledge