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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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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: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:RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Where would the button be without the button hole?: Unsung heroes of anonymous design
George Tscherny Softcover | 22.4 x 0.5 x 26.9 cm | 32 pp RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2008 | 9781933360355 This book is about designs born of necessity; often spontaneously, always pragmatically. It is also about the particular sensibility of graphic designer George...- £5.00
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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: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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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 6.76 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
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
Charles Jencks & Nathan Silver Softcover | 18.26 x 1.63 x 25.55 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262518444 The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture...- £15.00
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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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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: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...- £15.00
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Vendor:Gingko Press
Cork: In Architecture, Design, Fashion and Art
Guillaume Bounoure & Chloe Genevaux Hardcover | 19.81 x 2.03 x 27.43 cm | 176 pp Gingko Press | 2020 | 9783943330328 Cork: in Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Art showcases the fascinating ways cork can be incorporated in our lives. With sustainability at the forefront of every designer’s...- £25.00
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Vendor:Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...- £7.50
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Vendor:Phaidon
Vitamin Green
Joshua Bolchover Hardcover | 26.04 x 3.49 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2012 | 9780714862293 Vitamin Green looks at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the...- £30.00
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Outside the Box: Hand-Drawn Packaging from Around the World
Gail Anderson Softcover | 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893361 A book for designers, aspiring designers and followers of consumer trends, Outside the Box aims to be the first of its kind - a celebration...- £15.00
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Introduction to Three-Dimensional Design: Principles, Processes, and Projects
Softcover | 17.91 x 1.65 x 21.34 cm | 126 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2020 | 9781616899219 Introduction to Three-Dimensional Design is the first book to teach graphic design students the fundamentals of three-dimensional design through hands-on drawing and model projects. The book combines key concepts...- £15.00
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Vendor:Berg Publishers
Design and Designing: A Critical Introduction
Steve Garner & Chris Evans Paperback | 24.4 x 18.9 cm | 512 pp | 218 bw and 32 colour illustrations Berg Publishers | 2012 | 9781847885760 Design and Designing provides a broad and critical understanding of what is essentially a practical subject. Designing today is less...- £12.50
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