Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

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

This book presents the outcomes of recent endeavors that will contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, music and musicology, as well as overlapping areas.

Understanding emotions is becoming ever more valuable in design, both in terms of what people prefer as well as in relation to how they behave in relation to it.

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

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

This book brings together experts from different areas to show how creativity drives design and innovation to allow the integration of a wider spectrum of topics related to engineering design, industrial design and ergonomics in design.

This book shares new research findings and practical lessons learned that will foster advances in digital design, communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design and branding, and other related areas.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.

Over the last four decades, John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schon's theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design.

This book addresses the neglect of visual creativities and content, and how these are commercialised in the music industries.

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.

This book takes a social science approach to address two related questions: (1) what does Donald Trump say on Twitter?

Interaction design is acknowledged as an important area of study, and more especially of design practice.

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms.

This book focuses on important mathematical considerations in describing the synthesis of original mechanisms for generating curves.

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine.

This book offers an extensive, interdisciplinary overview of dynamic textiles.

Constructive design research, is an exploratory endeavor building exemplars, arguments, and evidence.

This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds.

This volume interrogates the intertwining of the local and the digital in environmental communication.

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors.

This book focuses on the global quality of the design of systems that people interact with during their work activities and daily lives; a quality that involves the globality of people's experience - physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional.

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media within African politics.

This book presents the outcomes of recent endeavors that are expected to foster significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design, and product design, as well as overlapping areas.

This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.

This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them.

This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive view of the design space of wearable computers, cutting across multiple application domains and interaction modalities.

This book focuses on the emerging role of human factors in understanding, communicating with and engaging users.

This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality.

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

This book focuses on emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology.

Design Cybernetics: Navigating the NewDesign cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves curious, creative, and ethical humans as self-organising systems that negotiate their own goals in open-ended explorations of the previously unknown.

This edited collection opens up new intellectual territories and articulates the ways in which academics are theorising and practicing new forms of research in 'wild' contexts.

The path for developing an internationally usable product with a human-machine interface is described in this textbook, from theory to conception and from design to practical implementation.

This book addresses big data as a socio-technical construct with huge potential for innovation in key sectors such as healthcare, government and business.

The author presents Probatio, a toolkit for building functional DMI (digital musical instruments) prototypes, artifacts in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped.

This book promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with older people, whose predominant perspective focuses on decline, health, and help.

This monograph illuminates a design mindset for systems, artefacts, that not only survive, but thrive.

The author presents Probatio, a toolkit for building functional DMI (digital musical instruments) prototypes, artifacts in which gestural control and sound production are physically decoupled but digitally mapped.

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.

The contemporary design practice known as data sonification allows us to experience information in data by listening.

This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment.

The Basics Design series is designed to provide graphic arts students with a theoretical and practical exploration of fundamental topics, including layout, format, typography, colour and image.

By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development.

Textiles and Fashion explores the integration of textile design with fashion.

Written with the innovative fashion student in mind, Sourcing and Selecting Textiles for Fashion gives a full overview of the current textile market and shows how to apply this knowledge when creating a fashion collection.

The Principles & Processes of Interactive Design is aimed at new designers from across the design and media disciplines who want to learn the fundamentals of designing for interactive media.