Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

This book is an introduction to the wide and varied world of 3D printing-an incredible technology used across an ever-growing list of industries.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on research and developments at the interface between industrial design, textile engineering and fashion.

Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of atmosphere.

This book reflects and expands on the current trends in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries to respond to the unfolding climate and biodiversity crisis.

This brief textbook underpins the concept of eco-efficiency in product design and systematically addresses the essence of the integration of simplified life cycle assessment (LCA) methods and tools into industrial design.

This book gathers the revised and selected contributions to the 6th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2022, held on September 20-22, 2022, in Leuven.

This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, as well as musicology and other related areas.

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.

This book gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of digital and communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design, branding, and related ones.

This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives.

This book presents a comprehensive guide to the design of playing robots and the related play experiences.

This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training and research.

What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art?

This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder.

This book is about design.

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications.

This eighth volume of Imagine Math is different from all the previous ones.

This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education,  society and communication in design practice, and related ones.

This book is for experienced luthiers and guitar designers in the industry, novice builders wishing to improve their designs, and guitar owners interested in knowing more about their instruments.

The book provides an open and integrated view of creativity in the 21st century, merging theories and case studies from design, psychology, sociology, computer science and human-computer interaction, while benefitting from a continuous dialogue within a network of experts in these fields.

This book reports on innovative research and practices in contemporary design, showing how to integrate different concepts and discussing the emerging role of design in different field, its meaning for humans and citizens, at both local and global level.

This textbook provides the tools, techniques, and industry examples needed for the successful implementation of design of experiments (DoE) in engineering and manufacturing applications.

This book reports on research and developments in human-technology interaction.

This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book addresses current research trends and practice in industrial design.

This book addresses the importance of human factors in the design of artifacts and systems that serves contemporary individual and societal needs.

This book brings together experts from different areas to show how creativity drives design and innovation in different kind of businesses.

This book reports on interdisciplinary research and practices in communication, interior, fashion and product design, highlighting strategies for systematizing the design approach in a global, digital world.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to the design, development and evaluation, of products, systems and services.

This book collects a set of reflections concerning the planning of contemporary cities by urban design, with a special emphasis on some needs and shortcomings emerged during the coronavirus pandemic.

This book gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of digital and communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design, branding, and related ones.

This book reports the most recent, advanced, successful, and real applications of ergonomics in order to improve the human well-being and performance in a short term, as well as the organizational performance in a long term.

An approach to socio-technical HCI called Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) emerged around 2005.

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging.

This book presents the proceedings of the first International Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and Newcastle University.

This book gathers revised and selected contributions to the 5th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2021, organized online on January 18-28, 2021, from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.

This book gathers the papers of the PUDCAD Universal Design Practice Conference: Game + Design Education, organized by Istanbul Technical University and held online on June 24-26, 2020.

This book is about using "e;collage"e; among Iranian students in architecture studio, and in order to introduce the way these students use the technique to the English reader, we (Ali Yaser Jafari  and Reihaneh Khorramrouei) have chosen this valuable book by AliAsghar Adibi to translate from Farsi to English.

This book introduces human factors engineering (HFE) principles, guidelines, and design methods for medical device design.

This book focuses on the ways in which resiliency can foster the transformation of cities.

This book focuses on intellectual property (IP) in the context of product innovation and design-led start-up management.

This book reports on an original approach to problems of loci.

This book reports on  research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in: digital and interaction design; graphic design and branding; design strategies and methodologies; design education; society and communication in design practice; and other related areas.

This book presents new ways of facilitating design thinking, through the combination of cognitive design strategies and information technologies.

This book proposes a novel approach to the design of accessible and inclusive sailing yachts, inspired by the principles of "e;Design for All.

Plastics have now been our most used materials for over fifty years.