Cities and Design (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City)

Paul L. Knox | 296 pages | Publisher: Routledge (July 29, 2010) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0415492890 | PDF | 4,64 MB | Preview Available  

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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with global systems of key business services. Meanwhile, many observers still believe good design can make positive contributions to people’s lives. 

 Cities and Design explores the complex relationships between design and urban environments. It traces the intellectual roots of urban design, presents a critical appraisal of the imprint and effectiveness of design professions in shaping urban environments, examines the role of design in the material culture of contemporary cities, and explores the complex linkages among designers, producers and distributors in contemporary cities: for example fashion and graphic design in New York; architecture, fashion and publishing in London; furniture, industrial design, interior design and fashion in Milan; haute couture in Paris; and so on.

This book offers a distinctive social science perspective on the economic and cultural context of design in contemporary cities, presenting cities themselves as settings for design, design services and the ‘affect’ associated with design.

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Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture (Reupload)

Sir Banister Fletcher's A history of architecture 

Banister Fletcher (Author), J.C. Palmes (Editor) | 1390 pages | Publisher: Scribner; 18th edition (1975) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0684142074 | ISBN-13: 978-0684142074 | PDF | 119.1 MB  | Preview n/a

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The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times.

In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new.

* There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both with new specially commissioned drawings

* The architecture of the Americas before 1900 has been enlarged to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean

* The book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from outside Europe

* The bibliography has been expanded into a separate section and is a key source of information on every period of world architecture

* The coverage of the 20th century architecture of North America has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller coverage of contemporary works

* 20th century architecture of Western Europe has been radically recast

* For the first time the architecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and assessed in an historical perspective

* Coverage has been extended to include buildings completed during the last ten years

* The coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and re-organised to form a self contained section

This unique reference book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical settings to describe the main patterns of architectural development, from Prehistoric to the International Style. Again in the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that 'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and aspirations of the people, and without a knowledge of this art the history of any period lacks that human interest with which it should be invested.'

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Lumbung-kenstein (It's a Live...!!!)

I so sorry to all my reader. It's been a long time since i left this blog. Many reader have send me comments to repair some broken link. From nowadays i'll try to keep this blog live again and fix the broken link one by one as soon as possible. Please make some donation and stay tunes in this blog.

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The Graphic Design Business Book

The Graphic Design Business Book

Tad Crawford (Author) | 240 pages | Publisher: Allworth Press (November 1, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 1581154305 | ISBN-13: 978-1581154306 | PDF | 6,87 MB (Preview Available)

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• Authoritative advice on every aspect of running a design business

• Expert contributors include Leonard DuBuff, Richard Weisgrau, Eva Doman Bruck, and many more

General small-business advice just doesn’t work for a graphic design business. What graphic designers need is The Graphic Design Business Book, packed with directly relevant strategies for creating a business plan, managing a studio, presenting portfolios, marketing on the Web, keep clients happy, and more, including sample contract forms and listings of professional organizations—all contributed by experts in their fields. Every graphic designer needs a copy of The Graphic Design Business Book.

About the Author

Tad Crawford is an attorney, publisher, and author of many books to help creative professionals, including Legal Guide for the Visual Artist and Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers. He lives in New York City.

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Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)

Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)

Christian Leborg (Author) | 96 pages | Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2006) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 1568985819 | ISBN-13: 978-1568985817 | PDF | 66,32 MB

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Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding of visual language, a productive dialogue between producers and consumers of visual communication is impossible. Visual Grammar can help you speak and write about visual objects and their creative potential, and better understand the graphics that bombard you 24/7. It is both a primer on visual language and a visual dictionary of the fundamental aspects of graphic design.

Dealing with every imaginable visual concept from abstractions such as dimension, format, and volume; to concrete objects such as form, size, color, and saturation; to activities such as repetition, mirroring, movement, and displacement; to relations such as symmetry, balance, diffusion, direction, and variation this book is an indispensable reference for beginners and seasoned visual thinkers alike. Whether you simply want to familiarize yourself with visual concepts or whether you're an experienced designer looking for new ways to convey your ideas to a client, Visual Grammar is the clear and concise manual that you've been looking for.

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Sketching 5th print: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers

Sketching 5th print: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers

Koos Eissen (Author), Roselien Steur (Author) | Publisher: Bis Publishers | 2007 | ISBN: 978-981-245-621-2 | 242 Pages | 51,69 MB | PDF

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Sketching is an incredibly broad and practical survey of sketching techniques for product designers. It goes without saying that the book is suited for the classroom, but every design studio will also find this manual an asset, because in spite of the ascendancy of the computer, hand-drawn sketches are still a very much used.

About the Author

Koos Eissen is associate professor and head of the Design Drawing Techniques staff (TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, in the Netherlands). He is at present guest-lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Roselien Steur is a free-lance visualisor, and lecturer at the HKU/Utrecht School of the Arts, The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design in the Netherlands.

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Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise

Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise

Charles D. Maginnis (Author) | IndyPublish | English | December 12, 2007 | ISBN: 1435386396 | 72 Pages,Illustrated | PDF | 8,24 Mb

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IF you want to draw pens, this is good. If you want to USE a pen to draw, it is very instructional, and the author takes the time to illustrate the ideas, and to elaborate on them in a way that is rarely done in modern writing. I think. This is Charles MaGinnis at his best; it`s a classic edition of his famous work on pen drawing so if you`re interested in learning about art and drawing this is a great book to review.

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Pencil Sketching (2nd Edition)

Pencil Sketching (2nd Edition)

Thomas C. Wang (Author) | Wiley | ISBN: 0471399191 | August 8, 2001 | 128 pages | PDF | 6.3MB

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The complete, classic guide to the art of pencil sketching

Portable. Erasable. Inexpensive. No other single drawing tool is as versatile as the pencil. Through the centuries, generations of artists have used it to work out ideas, study form, and develop fundamental skills that are crucial to an artist's training.

Pencil Sketching has taught thousands of beginners the basic principles and techniques of pencil sketching. Carefully revised to meet the needs of today's artists, this edition features easy-to-follow instructions, dozens of new illustrations, and more-everything you need to explore the amazing potential of the pencil and learn to sketch with confidence.

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