Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the industrial order.

A stylish and informative guide to the best of Midcentury Modern chair design.

The fourth edition of Merchandise Buying and Management has been updated to cover the most current information on merchandising and retailing.

Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions (IDDS) represent a significant new research trajectory in the integration of architecture and construction through the rapid adoption of new processes.

Observar la naturaleza y aprender de ella es una cualidad humana, pero lo que realmente importa es identificar cómo hace para permanecer armónica, bella, funcional, práctica, eficiente y adaptable.

What exactly are comics?

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties.

Design Thinking, a method widely used in design business and management, has changed the landscape of contemporary design.

This book offers a survey of successful attributes of the systems engineer.

Throughout the chapters, the authors take readers through the various uses of technology.

For centuries, the fashion industry has struggled to reconcile style with sustainability.

This introduction to descriptive geometry and contemporary drafting guides the student through the essential principles to create engineering drawings that comply with international standards of technical product specification.

A guided tour through the each stages of process, Kansei/Affective Engineering explores how to apply Kansei/Affective Engineering.

Optimality Conditions in Convex Optimization explores an important and central issue in the field of convex optimization: optimality conditions.

What we make, makes us.

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture.

The problem with the way the safety industry functions is three-fold: (1) the dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, (2) the practice of Results-Based Safety, and (3) the creation of a false reality.

This book considers David Hanson's robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots.

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot.

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and political messages.

The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments.

Whether fashionable or functional-or both-pockets are an important design detail that can enhance the aesthetic of your collection and improve the experience of the wearer.

This book discusses a new process mining method along with a detailed comparison between different techniques that provide a complete vision of the process of data acquisition, data analysis, and data prediction.

The graphic artist's guide to sustainable design Graphic design is frequently thought of as a purely decorative effort.

Design Attitude is a book for those who want to scratch beneath the surface and explore the impact design and designers have in organisations.

Design Games for Architecture teaches you how to create playful software tools based on your architectural design processes, whether or not you are familiar with game design technology.

Efficient Energy Utilization and Emission Reduction Strategies in Plant Operations summarizes technological advancements in effective energy utilization in plant operations.

Manufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future.

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence.

Waterstones Best Humour Books of 2023Meet serial dater Olive.

Organizations value insights from reflexive, iterative processes of designing interactive environments that reflect user experience.

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied.

This book includes recent theoretical and practical advancements in green composite materials and advanced manufacturing technology.

Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a stepbystep guide on how to put it into practice.

Beginning with Alexander McQueen's infamous attempt to live stream his 2009 Plato's Atlantis collection on SHOWStudio, this book traces how digital and social media have disrupted social structures within the field of fashion, and transformed the way it is communicated and consumed.

As quality becomes an increasingly essential factor for achieving business success, building quality improvement into all stages-product planning, product design, and process design-instead of just manufacturing has also become essential.

Drawing upon theories from visual studies, critical visual culture studies, and cognitive psychology, and with a special focus on gender and ethnicity, this book gives students a theoretical foundation for future work as visual communicators.

'Full of gems .

Prior to the 1970s and 1980s, fashion marketing focused heavily (and perhaps solely) on women's fashions.

Starting with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style, this collection explores the relationships among political theory, dress, and self-presentation during a period in which imperial and colonial empires assumed their modern form.

The essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever!

People spend increasing amounts of time and effort interacting with complex hardware and software products.

Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940.