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A trade in dreams
A lavishly illustrated cultural history of print advertising in EgyptAt the tail end of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was shifting economies and redrawing global power maps. In this changing world, advertising became more than just a way to sell products—it was a powerful tool...
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Architectonics of game spaces
What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can architecture be used to turn game-worlds into sustainable places in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships...
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At the mercy of their clothes
At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik’s study combines close readings of modernist and middlebrow works, a history of Britain in the early twentieth century, and the insights of thing theory.
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Bally - a history of footwear in the interwar period
The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally’s corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally’s fortunes in the U.S., the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the...
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Building blocks
Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning, and working at kindergartens, schools, universities, and companies. This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materia...
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Cinema by design
Cinema by Design traces Art Nouveau’s long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement’s enduring avant-garde aesthetics. Lucy Fischer explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of ...
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Clash of realities 2015/16
Digital games as transmedia works of art – Games as social environments – The aesthetics of play – Digital games in pedagogy – Cineludic aesthetics – Ethics in games – these were some of the important and fascinating topics addressed during the international research conference "Clash of Realitie...
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Critical by design?
With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.
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Decentering world’s fairs
How are art and fashion histories connected? An analysis focusing on transcultural style migrations in a globalized art world.
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Designing the computational image, imagining computational design
During the three decades following the Second World War, before the advent of the personal computer, government investment in university research in North America and the UK funded multidisciplinary projects to investigate the use of computers for manufacturing and design.Documenting the eponymou...
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Designing transformative change
How can designers help addressing societal needs and navigating complex global issues?
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Designing worlds
Designing Worlds responds to the growing literature on global design history and national identity in design, and furthers the debate on this central issue. Designing Worlds contributes an original and innovative reassessment of the role of national histories within a global context. ...
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Digital design
A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intel...
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Digital transformation in design
Introduces contemporary research on the digitization and datafication of products, exploring topics like user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 3 is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. It takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 2 investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 1 explores design-based, reflexive, qualitative, experience-based, archival and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Issue 4, »Essentials of Montage in Architecture«, provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods, and visions to highlight the relevance of montage for visual and spatial practices as well as for knowledge production in architecture.
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Drawing and experiencing architecture
Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants.
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Fair fashion?
A comprehensive review of Fair Trade practices in the fashion industry, critically examining the often-overlooked aspect of cultural sustainability.
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Fashion: the ultimate history of costume
This book gives readers an overview of fashion history from the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, through in-depth text, photographs, artworks and explanatory drawings.
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Knowledge worlds
<i>Knowledge Worlds</i> reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different ki...
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Large housing estates under socialism
This book argues that harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts.
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Mag men
For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century.
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Napoleon's closet
Margaret Waller’s fresh account of the paradoxical history of male clothing centers on an unlikely pair: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart who crowned himself emperor of France, and Pierre Antoine Le Boux La Mésangère, the defrocked priest who became Europe’s premier fashion editor.
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Practicing sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy making, and they describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.
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Radio explorations
Rooted in experimental design and data feminism, Radio Explorations presents innovative tools for navigating data by spanning media theory, information studies, and feminist new materialism.
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Salvaging buildings
Salvaging Buildings is an in-depth ethnographic study of the under-the-radar livelihood of the reclaimers, (çıkmacıs), an informal network of building salvagers.
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Shared habitats
The interactions among artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of l...
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Shooting for the stars
This Shooting for the Stars book is a celebration of timeless design.In its 248 colorful pages, there are countless award-winning, successful design programs and projects which have stood the test of time. Over six decades of global corporate clients (like AT&T and DuPont) to smaller not-for-...
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Shrines of wisdom
Based on the typology of the library, the contributors show how to develop an architecture for a comprehensive concept of education, and how this built environment can support the transformation of knowledge into wisdom matured through experience.
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Subjectivity and synchrony in artistic research
Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. She suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt research environments, funding structures, and evaluation crite...
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Superhumanity: post-labor, psychopathology, plasticity
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Teaching research in design
Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan Moritsch and Agnes Raschauer discuss how the concept of learning by research can be integrated into product design studio teaching. They show different international approaches for integrating research into teaching and contrast the areas of design research with s...
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The logic of design process
What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design pro...
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The palladio method
This book reflects on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
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The triumph of nature
The Triumph of Nature returns us vividly to an entrancing time in European decorative arts, from its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts movement and Japonisme, through to its evolution into Art Deco style.An exuberant, radical style, Art Nouveau blithely trampled many of the Victorian Age’s orthod...
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The unknown in design, art, and technology
An invitation to question the presumed certainties in design, art, and technology.
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Why the hindenburg had a smoking lounge
Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuityHow did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as inves...
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