Architecture & Design

Business cards have changed. Once they were designed almost as an afterthought, and made to match the letterhead and envelope.

The new business card is a business tool, but only if it stands out. The business card that is given to someone must impact. It must connect the card with the person, and ...

Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made ...

Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement. Whether personal or collective, drive is the common ...

Text by Nasir Kassamali, Frank Reinhardt, Francesco Zurlo, Anna Yudina, et al.

Add color and depth to these 31 original symmetrical patterns, each an unusual combination of swirling forms. Then put on the enclosed 3-D glasses and watch them spring to life. Previously published as Abstracts Coloring Book.

DED Associates are from Sheffield in the English Midlands. The extremely depressing industrial surroundings seem to have fueled an extremely contrasting, colorful and funky school of graphic designers. Travel Sickness features both their recent works for music companies as well as shows 50% of freshly ...

Examines Chinese textiles made for and used by the ruling elite of China. This work presents 77 Chinese textiles that are arranged and discussed in three groups such as: clothing and furnishing fabrics made for the ruling elite; Chinese silks found beyond the borders of the empire; and, textiles made for Daoist and Buddhist liturgical use.

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This is the first book to explain the genesis and cultural significance of emoji, the world's cutest and most popular form of shorthand.

Explores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. Touching on the historical context of humanity's earliest settlements in ancient world, this work looks ahead to creative, forward-thinking and possibly fanciful notions of the city, such as biospheres, space stations and virtual realities.

Rick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the early 70s. This book establishes Rick Mather's approach to resolving complex design issues, and also describes the work of the practice. Covering a range of the projects, it also explores Mather's response to the technical and social requirements of the briefs.

Presents an examination of the dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice.

Artifice: Dermot Foley Landscape Architects is the first comprehensive volume about the Irish architectural practice Dermot Foley Landscape Architects. Since its inception in 2001, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects has developed an enviable amount of successful projects from an impressive list of clients, ...

With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert

Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educators

of recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert

Maxwell is a scholar known worldwide for critical ...

The Korsmo House, 1955, is an icon of modern Scandinavian architecture--an experimental house that has been frequently published in magazines and architecture anthologies.

Plus: Jestico + Whiles charts the happenstance of events that has guided the practice's award winning design approach against the changing political and economic events of the last 30 years.

Tectonics: A Building for Earth Sciences at Oxford documents the design and building of an ambitious architectural project for the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, by a team including Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Pell Frischmann, Hoare Lea, Laing O'Rourke and EC Harris. The book brings ...

X Agendas for Architecture considers the recent developments in the agendas for architecture, inviting a range of contributors into a structured discourse to highlight issues and extend questions on the necessity of architectural agendas.

Drawing on the format of the urban guidebook, A Guide to the Dirty South-Atlanta generates a new discourse about the architecture of the American South. By guiding readers on a tour of Atlanta, this project seeks to reclaim a regional identity for cities otherwise deemed to be a "backwoods" by the East and West Coasts.