Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments.

This book provides applications of machine learning in healthcare systems and seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine by combining design and problem-solving skills of engineering with health sciences to advance healthcare treatment.

Sex and the City meets Martha Stewart in this savvy and eclectic interior-design manifesto for high-flying chicks with nesting fantasies from the authors of the bestselling Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life.

Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period.

There is no area of business that is more dramatically affected by the explosion of web-based services delivered to computers, PDAs and mobile phones than the film and television industries.

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s.

Modeling, in the past 60 years, has been constantly evolving and has revolutionized the industrial sector.

The scientific analysis of design thinking continues to burgeon and is of considerable interest to academic scholars and design practitioners across many disciplines.

The capability modeling and simulation (M&S) supplies for managing systems complexity and investigating systems behaviors has made it a central activity in the development of new and existing systems.

If people from different fields are going to work together on projects, then they need to begin to understand each other.

Intercultural Collaboration by Design introduces a framework for collaborating across cultures and learning to use multicultural perspectives to address pressing global issues.

Programming permeates almost all aspects of our lives.

Japanese-style crochet is getting ready to sweep the globe!

This book questions if spherology is a philosophy for designers, giving guidance on ways to read Spheres, how to approach the trilogy's indexicality, and apply the key tropes and ethics of atmospheres to digital design.

For courses in Textile Science, Textile Fundamentals, Introduction to Textiles, Textiles for Interiors, or other courses that focus on basic textiles.

'I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

Thanks to recent advancements, optimization is now recognized as a crucial component in research and decision-making across a number of fields.

This book demonstrates and discusses the hypothesis that, within the theory of multiple intelligences, graphic intelligence can be isolated and defined as the ability to use graphic skills to solve problems and create products through the integration and coordination of eye, mind and hand, that is, visual perception, thought and graphic representation.

Design Innovation for Health and Medicine offers an innovative approach for solving complex healthcare issues.

Uncertainty permeates every thinkable aspect of project work and mastering information awareness and availability is the key to controlling benefits, budgets, and timelines.

During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of "e;otherness"e; to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream.

The classic text by renowned manga expert in a beautiful new casebound edition, with a new foreword and afterword by the author.

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (18981969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America's most prominent and prolific ';social viewpoint' artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War.

In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge.

Polymere in technischen Produkten können unter ganzheitlicher Betrachtung nachhaltig und sicher eingesetzt werden.

In today's extremely competitive manufacturing market, effective production planning and scheduling processes are critical to streamlining production and increasing profits.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture.

"e;This is the most comprehensive teaching tool for learning and mastering draping techniques.

Adobe Photoshop es una herramienta poderosa para artistas digitales, y este libro es el manual indispensable del usuario novel, ya que le permite iniciarse en esta disciplina y avanzar hasta convertirse en un artista digital versátil.

To achieve success in today's ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board.

The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design Anyone who has ever tried to launch a fashion design career knows how grueling it can be.

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels.

Cosplay, short for "e;costume play"e;, has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon.

Gorgeous knits for babies and toddlersIf the arrival of a newborn baby inspires you to give a handmade knitted gift, then Baby & Toddler Knits Made Easy is just what you're looking for.

Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields.

Creativity in Fashion Design: An Inspiration Workbook aims to inspire and empower designers by helping them to develop their personal creativity and use it as a tool to achieve design goals.

The application of internet of things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled IoT solutions has gradually become accepted by business and production organizations as an effective tool for automating several activities effectively and efficiently and developing and distributing products to the global market.

This book describes various aspects of technical textiles and materials, emerging technologies, plant by-products, ultrafine fibers, functional fibers, and fabrics, covering the entire spectrum of technical textiles.

Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of craft, this ground-breaking volume analyses the philosophies, politics and practicalities of collaborative craft work.

This book includes research studies, novel theory, as well as new methodology and applications in mathematics and management sciences.

This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), when incorporated with machine learning and deep learning algorithms, has a wide variety of applications today.

Although a hat may be designed for the purpose of practicality or aesthetics, it is part of a complex interplay of wider cultural meanings.

Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level.

From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture.

50 easy to follow healthy recipes with clear, short step-by-step instructions and gorgeous images which will have children cooking with confidence in no time.

Franco Albini's works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement.

This second edition of Textile Conservation offers an up-to-date perspective on the role and practice of textile conservators, capturing the diversity of textile conservation work across the globe.