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Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture
Louise Harpman & Scott Specht Softcover | 14 x 2 x 15 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2018 | 9781616896560 The ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid combines indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that can be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked...- £10.00
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Vendor:V&A
The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design
Tristran Hunt Hardcover | 19.43 x 3.05 x 23.37 cm | 256 pp V&A | 2019 | 9781851779727 In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell...- £20.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design (Third edition)
Chris Lefteri Softcover | 24 x 17 cm | 312 pp | 282 illustrations Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786273284 A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the...- £18.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Designing Here/Now: A Global Selection of Objects, Concepts and Spaces for the Future
Alan Chochinov & Eric Ludlum Hardcover | 22.86 x 3.81 x 27.43 cm | 448 pp Thames and Hudson | 2014 | 9780500517482 A survey of entrants and winners of the Core77 Design Awards - an in-depth look at the spirit and preoccupations of the design...- £13.00
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Vendor:BIS Publishers
Sketching: The Basics
Koos Eissen & Roselien Steur Softcover | 18.92 x 2.03 x 25.78 cm | 204 pp BIS Publishers | 2019 | 9789063695347 Sketching: The Basics concerns the study of drawing form for designers. It is aboutlearning to draw efficiently by employing different techniques, both manual and digital. Drawing...- £17.50
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Vendor:Niggli
Design Basics: From Ideas to Products
Gerhard Heufler, Michael Lanz & Martin Prettenthaler Softcover | 16 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 244 pp Niggli | 2019 | 9783721209884 Design Basics offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as...- £15.00
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Vendor:British Library
Inventing the 21st Century
Stephen van Dulken Paperback | 157 pp | 15.9 x 23.5 cm British Library | 2010 | 9780712358026 Surprise and intrigue are rife in this fascinating history of modern inventions. Although we are only ten years into the 21st century, the number of new patents...- £7.50
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Vendor:Laurence King
History of Modern Design (Second Edition)
David Raizman Softcover | 22.48 x 3.81 x 30.23 cm | 432 pp Laurence King | 2010 | 9781856696944 This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and...- £27.50
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Vendor:Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Jakob Berg: Furniture
Hardcover | 23 x 2.54 x 28.5 cm | 240 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906303 This is the first comprehensive presentation of the work of Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958–2008). As a designer, he was ahead of his time and...- £25.00
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Vendor:Park Books
Dust Free Friends
6a architects Softcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.24 cm | 80 pp Park Books | 2015 | 9783038600077 You may have braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose...- £15.00
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Vendor:Jovis
Original Resopal: The Aesthetics of the Surface
Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm | 192 pp Jovis | 2006 | 9783939633044 German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Distanz
Best of German Interior Design
Hardcover | 24.28 x 4.93 x 29.21 cm | 376 pp Distanz | 2017 | 9783954761807 Best of German Interior Design introduces the reader to the fifty most renowned German designers and fifty leading German manufacturers of home interior products. It portrays a scene...- £30.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Christopher Dresser: Design Pioneer
Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....- £8.50
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Vendor:Ludion
Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world
Katie Treggiden Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2023 | 9789493039896 We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don’t need to...- £12.50
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
Hardcover | 25.15 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300234220 This spirited volume shows how postwar designers and architects embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...- £20.00
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Vendor:ACC
Conran/Quant: Swinging London - A Lifestyle Revolution
Geoffrey Rayner & Richard Chamberlain Hardcover | 22.05 x 2.62 x 27.64 cm | 240 pp ACC | 2019 | 9781788840118 Transporting you back to London at the height of the Swinging Sixties, this book provides vital context for two of the biggest and boldest names in...- £25.00
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Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 16.76 x 2.29 x 24.13 cm | 298 pp Thames and Hudson | 2016 | 9780500292358 The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and...- £13.50
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Vendor:Abbeville Press
A Century of American Toys and Games: The Story of Pressman Toy
Hardcover | 33.78 x 2.79 x 26.16 cm | 256 pp Abbeville Press | 2022 | 9780789214447 From Chinese checkers to the Wheel of Fortune board game, this is the story of how one family business shaped the way Americans play. Abundantly illustrated with new colour...- £25.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.34 x 23.65 cm | 312 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035989 This book looks at how product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates...- £12.50
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Vendor:V & A
Interplay: Interactive Design
Lauren Parker Softcover | 14.29 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 128 pp V & A | 2004 | 781851774333 Published in 2004, Interplay looked at what constitutes good interactive design and the qualities that lie behind the work of the most original designers in this...- £7.50
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