Compendium of Design

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These 500 tables are more than just practical places to set a coffee cup or notepa...

507 Mechanical Movements

Mechanical Engineering
 
 
Epicyclic trains, oblique rollers, trip hammers, and lazy-tongs are among the inge...
 
 
Completely revised and updated, A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Ed...

Architects' Data

Architectural structure & design
 
 
This new edition of a classic, bestselling text provides, in one concise volume, t...
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This series of three volumes, 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained' aims to expl...
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This series of three volumes, 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained' aims to expl...
 
 
This series of three volumes, 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained' aims to expl...
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Available again in a boxed hardcover edition, the definitive work on Bauhaus. Bau...
 
 
Material for the book is derived from the Collins Complete DIY Manual, by Jackson ...
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The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up...
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This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the all-important subject of cho...
 
 
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material, with a l...
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An essential reference that clarifies the role of drawing in the design process. A...
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Design for the Real World

Technical Design
 
 
Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it ...
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Designing with Models, Second Edition is the revised, step–by–step guide to basic ...
 
 
The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary s...
 
 
With its tutorial-based approach, this is a practical guide to both hand- and comp...
 
 
The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing...
 
 
Figure drawing is the most essential - and the most difficult - of all the skills ...
 
 
This book, illustrated with drawings in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and brush a...
 
 
Understanding how the body moves is the key to rendering clothing, as world-renown...
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Eames

History of Art & Design
 
 
The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transf...
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Birdhouses are a favorite project among woodworkers. Made of inexpensive materials...
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Engineering Drawing remains the leading Australian text for students studying engi...
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F.L. Wright

History of Art & Design
 
 
Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank...
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Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion d...
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Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book

Fashion and textile design
 
 
This easily navigable resource provides 125 swatches of the most recognized and wi...
 
 
This book makes possible the accurate geometrical solution of all problems of patt...

Gropius

History of Art & Design
 
 
Modernist visionary Walter Gropius was founding director of the Bauhaus and pionee...
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A classic guide to the technical aspects of product design—now revised and updated...
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In Learn to Weld, teach yourself to be a master of the craft with this valuable st...
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Over the last ten years there has been a huge growth in the area of materials for ...
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A comprehensive yet accessible introduction to materials engineering which provide...
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One of the world’s most highly regarded Materials Science texts, Callister’s Mater...

Mies Van Der Rohe

History of Art & Design
 
 
Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one o...
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"Model-making: Materials and Methods" focuses primarily on the wide variety of mat...
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Model Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landsca...
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Offers woodworkers with the advice they need to design their own projects by prese...
 
 
Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. M...
 
 
'Rendering' is the reproduction or representation of an architect's design in the ...
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In our mechanized day of mass production, the craft of hand-forming sheet metal in...
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Award-winning automotive restorer demystifies the art of sheet metal shaping for e...
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Some may think sketching is a disappearing skill, but if you ever enter a design s...
 
 
This book explains the basic sketching techniques and decisions more in depth and ...
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Time is on your side...and do more with the time you have. Small Woodworking Proje...
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All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book ...
 
 
Presents more than one thousand art terms and descriptions, and includes sidebars ...

The Atlas of Furniture Design

History of Art & Design
 
 
In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the d...
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In the bestselling tradition of The Elements of Style, The Elements of Design is a...
 
 
An invaluable reference for woodworkers, crafters, furniture designers, and home e...
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