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50 Lights: Pro-design

Mel Byars's 50 LIGHTS offers an intelligent, long-overdue survey of distinguished ...

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50 Products: Innovations in Design and Material

When the creation of the tools we all use in our everyday lives is placed in the h...

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50 Sports Wares

Examples of the best recent developments in the realm of sports equipment are show...

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50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials

Hundreds of color photographs, many taken especially for this book, reveal the sta...

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Industrial Design A-Z

If you take even the slightest interest in the design of your toothbrush, the hist...

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Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design

Model Making

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. Modern product development is a multi-disciplinary effort that relies on prototyping in order to explore new ideas and test them sufficiently before they become actual products. Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Designers illustrates how prototypes are used to help designers understand problems better, explore more imaginative solutions, investigate human interaction more fully and test functionality so as to de-risk the design process.

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Woodwork: The Complete Step-by-step Manual

Woodwork

Get started on your woodworking skills with this ultimate guide to essential carpentry techniques, tools, tips and tricks.

Complete and easy directions for key skills, from simple joinery techniques to more involved woodworking projects, with clear helpful photographs.

New carpenters will learn about the essential tools needed, the principles of basic design, and practice crucial techniques, such as wood joints, finishing, woodturning, and furniture restoration.

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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers

History of Art & Design

This comprehensive reference work provides indispensable information about typographers, journals, movements and styles, organizations and schools, printers, art directors, technological advances, design studios, graphic illustrators and poster artists.

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Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained, Volume 1: Principles and Static Forces

Mechanical Engineering

This series of three volumes, 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained' aims to explain in a reader-friendly way, the essential principles of basic mechanics as used in engineering.

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Wood Bender's Handbook

Woodwork

You don’t need expensive machinery or exotic hand tools—just apply these proven techniques to your favorite projects. Try cold, dry, or kerf bending, laminating, or hot-water, steam, and hot air bending. With each method come wood recommendations from one of the world’s acknowledged experts. Handy charts show the bending qualities of the 25 most important woods and the effects that can be achieved.

Sketching: the Basics

Drawing

This book explains the basic sketching techniques and decisions more in depth and provides much more step-by-step example drawings, which makes it even more suitable for students and professionals who want to become better sketchers.
Sketching the Basics can be seen as the prequel to Sketching as it is more targeted at the novice designer. The Basics explains the essential techniques and effects more in detail, taking the reader by the hand and guiding him step by step through all the various aspects of drawing that novice designers come up against.

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

Model Making

Designing with Models, Second Edition is the revised, step–by–step guide to basic and advanced design process modeling. This comprehensive text explains the process from start to finish, and has been expanded to include up–to–date information on digital modeling programs and rapid prototyping processes.

Packaging Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Creating Packages

Packaging Design

This book outlines and demonstrates basic package design guidelines and rules through 100 principles in the areas of research, planning, and execution. This book is a quick reference and primer on package design, and the principles that make design projects successful.

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Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction

Materials

One of the world’s most highly regarded Materials Science texts, Callister’s Materials Science and Engineering has been reimagined for the first time for Australian and New Zealand students. This first ANZ edition promotes student understanding of the three primary types of materials (metals, ceramics, and polymers) and composites, as well as the relationships that exist between the structural elements of materials and their properties.

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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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50 Lights: Pro-design

50 Products: Innovations in Design and Material

50 Sports Wares

50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials

Industrial Design A-Z

Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design

Woodwork: The Complete Step-by-step Manual

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers

Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained, Volume 1: Principles and Static Forces

Wood Bender's Handbook

Sketching: the Basics

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

Packaging Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Creating Packages

Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction

Design for the Real World