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Designing with Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models

Designing with Models, Second Edition is the revised, step–by–step guide to basic ...

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Model-making: Materials and Methods

"Model-making: Materials and Methods" focuses primarily on the wide variety of mat...

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Modelmaking – A Basic Guide

Model Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landsca...

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Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. M...

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This Means This, This Means That

Graphic design

Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory.

The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns

Packaging Design

For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging design challenges.

Collins Complete Woodworkers Manual

Woodwork

Material for the book is derived from the Collins Complete DIY Manual, by Jackson and Day.Albert Jackson and David Day are the authoritative writers on DIY, home improvement and maintenance. They have made many television appearances, and have presented two major BBC series. Their best-selling books include the Collins Complete DIY Manual, Collins Complete Woodworkers Manual and Collins Home Restoration Manual.

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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 first appeared in 1971; it has become the world's most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium.

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Geometry of Sheet Metal Work

Metalwork

This book makes possible the accurate geometrical solution of all problems of pattern development normally encountered, by giving examples arranged according to a systematic plan which progressively illustrates the underlying principles.

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Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Graphic Problem Solving

Technical Design

The process of visual communication runs throughout our daily lives, whether its as simple as a traffic light or as complex as sign language. Many people find learning the underlying principles of visual communication a very personal venture, though most graphic design and illustration teaching methods focus only on technical facility, ignoring the need for personal and innovative thought in visual communication.

The Real Wood Bible: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Using 100 Decorative Woods

Materials

A practical and inspiring A-Z guide to the world's most popular woods. Many of the world's most beautiful and useful woods are in serious decline due to over-harvesting and environmental degradation. The Real Wood Bible gives the current sustainability status of these rare and important woods.

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Easy to Build Birdhouses - A Natural Approach

Woodwork

Birdhouses are a favorite project among woodworkers. Made of inexpensive materials, they are quick to build and a pleasure for the whole neighborhood. Easy to Build Birdhouses includes 26 fun projects for woodworkers of all skill levels.

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Mies Van Der Rohe

History of Art & Design

Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience.
Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one of underlying truth in pure forms and proportions. With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, he sought a stripped-down purity to architecture, showcased by the likes of the Seagram Building and Farnsworth House. Some spoke out against this stark approach as the precursor to bland, generic cityscapes. Others cite Mies van der Rohe as the ultimate master of an abidingly elegant essence.

Universal Principles of Design

Technical Design

Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find the information and know-how required to make a design work-until now.

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