True Nordic: The Influence of Scandinavian Design in Canada by George Baird
$39.99 AUD
Category: Design
"True Nordic" presents a comprehensive look at more than nine decades of Nordic and Scandinavian aesthetic influence in Canadian craft, design and industrial production. The book offers a broad historical survey of Canadian-made ceramics, furniture, textiles and metalware inspired by the aesthetics of D ...Show more
Ingenious: Product Design that Works by Wang Shaoqiang
$90.00 AUD
Category: Design
The main task for modern product designers is how to combine creativity and functionality. This book showcases different types of products such as furniture and industrial designs for the household and personal use, introducing projects from all over the world. It includes product descriptions, photogra ...Show more
Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. the Ultimate Biography by Peter Adam
$79.95 AUD
Category: Design
Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials. Her Bibendum chair an ...Show more
Thonik: Why We Design by Nikki Gonnissen + Aaron Betsky + Adrian Shaughnessy + Gert Staal
$67.99 AUD
Category: Design
In this book, Thonik--the Amsterdam-based design collective led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven--proposes and addresses 11 personal reasons why they design. Why do we color, organize and form the world around us, and why do we call that a profession? From the need to create i ...Show more
Imagine Moscow - Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution by Ezster Steierhoffer; Richard Anderson (Text by); Deyan Sudjic (Text by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Design
Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised.Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and early 1930s. Through evocative imagery and ...Show more
Geometry Now - Designing for Tomorrow
$59.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
As an introduction and history of geometric shapes that goes beyond shapes, the book offers thorough analyses on how geometric shapes emerge, develop and evolve in visual arts. How do shapes always successfully withstand the test of time? It is a secret hidden in the magnificent masterpieces by the grea ...Show more
Designing Peace - Building a Better Future Now by Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar (Foreword by); Darren Walker (Preface by); John Paul Lederach (Contribution by); Cynthia Smith (Editor, Text by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Design
Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? This book is an intersectional snapshot of the actions-culturally diverse and wide-ranging in scale-that are currently in play around the world. Offe ...Show more
Visions of the Bauhaus Books by Johannes Rinkenburger
$59.99 AUD
Category: Design
The 14 Bauhaus books were published between 1925 and 1930. Their authors discussed design principles, practices, and science of art approaches from various perspectives. Johannes Rinkenburger examined and researched the contents and key concepts of this avant-garde series of books along with their backg ...Show more
Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda by Roland Elliott Brown, FUEL
$49.99 AUD
Category: Design
The iconography of atheism: Soviets against God "We've finished the earthly tsars and we're coming for the heavenly ones " Thus spoke the Soviet Union's first atheist propagandists as they declared war on "the opium of the people" across the USSR. Soviet atheism is the great lost subject of the 20th cen ...Show more
Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas That Created a Country by Elisabeth Asbrink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Design
In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in t ...Show more
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Kate Franklin; Caroline Till
$49.99 AUD
Category: Design
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future presents the eight `Big Ideas' that will shape and inform the choices of materials, design methods and manufacturing processes made by designers in the years ahead. This book draws from a global community of designers who are pushing boundari ...Show more
Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat
$59.99 AUD
Category: Design
Revised edition: 20 additional methods, three new case studies and a new chapter to introduce life-centred design. This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change.This book introduces the reade ...Show more