Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

Make the most of your fabric stash with the complete guide to patchwork and quilting, new from the Mollie Makes team.

The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women.

Written by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider's manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions.

With vastly increased complexity and functionality in the "e;nanometer era"e; (i.

This book examines artists' engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist production and social life.

By examining the interface between consumer behavior and new product development, People and Products: Consumer Behavior and Product Design demonstrates the ways in which consumers contribute to product design, enhance product utility, and determine brand identity.

The safety, maintainability, and maintenance of systems have become more important than ever before.

Journalism Design is about the future of journalism.

The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in devising new worlds and entities and recreating past civilizations.

Drawing from American history, fashion design, history of luxury, visual culture, museum studies, and women's history, among others, this book explores the challenges, rewards and benefits of teaching business and the labor history of art and design professions to those in higher education.

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

Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze.

This book asks what is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance?

They've been referred to as the quintessential silent sales force, but they are so much more than fancy clothes hangers.

It's often said that we are what we wear.

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-FictionSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-si cle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit.

This book covers user experience methods and tools in designing user friendly products and servicesby encompassing widely utilized successful methods, including elicitation, analysis and establishment of requirements, collaborative idea generation with design teams and intended users, prototype testing and evaluation of the user experience through empirical and non empirical means.

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970.

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia

Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion.

Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional glass or polycarbonate panels, and even newly developed thin plastic or metal films for PV cell use may fracture during both construction and application.

Although work furniture has had so much more attention recently there is a long way to go before this is translated into action in the wider world.

This book is written for product design, software development, graphic design, and UX professionals with a focus on creating measurably better user experiences.

In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather's company in Montreal.

The process of creating graphic design cannot be easily defined: each designer has their own way of seeing the world and approaching their work.

This is probably the first book in 40 years to comprehensively discuss conveyors, a topic that seems mundane until the need arises to move material from point A to point B without manual intervention.

Social Psychology of Dress presents and explains the major theories and concepts that are important to understanding relationships between dress and human behavior.

In 1753 Robert Dodsley published Designs by Mr.

This book describes the characteristics of he five different disciplines of systems which are Systems Theory, Systems Science, Thinking in Systems, Systems Architecting, and Systems Engineering.

Sport technology has to be seen from the holistic, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary point of view.

This book aims to highlight the interrelations between maritime ports, supply chains and logistics.

Online learning can be so dullor not!

This book is a detailed introduction to selective maintenance and updates readers on recent advances in this field, emphasizing mathematical formulation and optimization techniques.

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity.

More than 150 eye-catching, stash-busting stitches to take your knitting to the next level.

Pedro Dorado Montero was one of Spain's most relevant authors.

This book provides a comprehensive, conceptual, and detailed overview of the wide range of applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science and how these technologies have an impact on various domains such as healthcare, business, industry, security, and how all countries around the world are feeling this impact.

Drawing on original designer interviews, this book explores how design interventions can and do support sex and gender equity and what barriers still stand in the way.

Filling the need for an introductory book on linear programming that discusses the important ways to mitigate parameter uncertainty, Introduction to Linear Optimization and Extensions with MATLAB provides a concrete and intuitive yet rigorous introduction to modern linear optimization.

Design Research is a new interdisciplinary research area with a social science orientation at its heart, and this book explores how scientific knowledge can be put into practice in ways that are at once ethical, creative, helpful, and extraordinary in their results.

The text explores the development, use, and effect of additive manufacturing and digital manufacturing technologies for diverse applications.

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year AwardA Choice Outstanding Title of the YearA USA Today "e;Must-Read for Black History Month"e;An NPR "e;Goats and Soda"e; Editors' PickA BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the YearAn unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson.

The definitive, behind-the-scenes guide to mastering information design Finally, in one usable format, here's your single-volume resource for designing clear projects that really work for your audience.

Domestic advice literature is rich in information about design, ideals of domesticity, consumption and issues of identity, yet this literature remains a relatively neglected resource in comparison with magazines and film.

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The competition between airports demands higher-quality services to satisfy passengers.

The past few years have seen a rapid growth in image processing and image communication technologies.

The German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP) annually invites researchers coming from its institutes and from industry to contribute peer reviewed papers in the field of production technology.

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth.