SOUND SPACE DESIGN - the monograph - enacts the carefully considered genre-breaking irreverence at the core of Don Albert & Partners design work. At once intentionally didactic yet reflexive , this book challenges the restrained tradition of the typical architectural publication.

Written by graphic designer Michael MacGarry, and featuring the work of leading design professionals, and targeted at designers, A Primer in South African Graphic Design features design fundamentals and principles; practical advice and guidance; designing for and within the local context; example of work by designers; Q & A with experienced local design professionals; and a glossary of highly-relevant resources and information.

This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of imperfect beauty to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience.

Star architects from Frank Gehry to Herzog & de Meuron have shaken up the formerly staid world of museum architecture, bringing more than a hint of bravura to new buildings or extensions.

This book is aimed at students of architecture and young practising architects.

In moving freely among the public and private spheres, design forces us to ask whether the distinction we still draw between them adequately describes our world today.

The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively
influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.

Materiology is a book intended for all creative professionals – architects, designers, stylists, artists and the like – who rely on materials and technologies, a target group that ranges from students to experienced professionals.

The interplay between architecture and visual communication is becoming
increasingly important. It would be shame for good architecture if a
person can't find the exit or baggage claim because the direction
graphics are ugly or ineffective!

The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject.

The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio’s collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze.

Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects,
Limited Edition documents a new phenomenon in contemporary furniture
design.

Fashion is a social phenomenon that can only be defined and understood using a trans-disciplinary approach.

In Milano, the capital of design, all designers are heroes and the heroes are all male. Except for one: Patricia Urquiola.

This book takes an in-depth look at design processes, with twenty-five
depictions of "the making of" products from a wide variety of
industries.

"Unfolded" presents paper from a new perspective: As a high-tech
material and substance for a new generation of engineers, designers,
artists, and architects.

Graphic designers who wish to work with print finishes like blind
embossing and phosphorescent ink constantly face the same problem: there
are no compelling examples of the available techniques.

Why are pizzas round and fish sticks square?

Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding color every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color?

Thomas Feichtner (b. 1970) is an Austrian designer who, after considerable successes in the field of industrial design (ski bindings, ball-point pens, fire extinguishers), has recently begun to turn heads again with his unusual approach to design.