Design on the Edge


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'Design on the Edge' tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement. The book illustrates the process of institutional change, institutional learning, and the political economy of design.







Cutting Edge Web Design


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This text provides an international cross section of Web pages that feature extraordinary graphics, innovative navigational schemes and content geared perfectly to each site's audience.




Creative Edge Page Design


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Designers who want to walk the cutting edge in their own work will find inspiration in the pages of this progressive book. An international crew of design visionaries discusses their featured magazine and book designs, brochures, ads and posters, revealing how they achieved the "creative edge" in every piece. Showcased in categories, which include Concept, Type, Image and Layout, each piece includes insight on specs and technique.




The Cheese Monkeys


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'Show me something I've never seen before and will never be able to forget - if you can do that, you can do anything.' It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the trained eye and skilful hand. Our narrator at State University is determined to major in Art, and after several risible false starts, he accidentally ends up in a new class: 'Introduction to Graphic Design'. His teacher is the enigmatic Winter Sorbeck, equal parts genius, seducer and sadist. Sorbeck is a bitter yet fascinating man whose assignments hurl his charges through a gauntlet of humiliation and heartache, shame and triumph, ego-bashing and enlightenment. Along the way, friendships are made and undone, jealousies simmer, and the sexual tango weaves and dips. By the end of their 'Introduction to Graphic Design', Sorbeck's students will never see the world in the same way again. And, with Chip Kidd's insights into the secrets of graphic design, neither will you.




Sitting on the Edge


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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition...at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from November 20, 1998, to February 23, 1999.




Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge


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Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge showcases a selection of textile designs from all over the world, presented in feature interviews with the world's most visionary young designers. Chosen for their contributions to fashion textiles and interior fabrics, the designers describe their output and inspirations in their own words. Whether speaking from style capitals, such as London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Tokyo, and New York, or in less-trafficked cities, today's most forward-thinking textile designers showcase exciting work that signals newdirections in textile practice and the emergence of new textile forms and fiber technologies. The book not only features images of completed designs, but also previously unseen archive material, such as work-in-progress photographs and digital drawings. These unique visuals create a stylish picture of today's textiles, as well as an essential reference guide for those interested in contemporary textile design.




Design on the Edge


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Line, Edge & Shade


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New Design


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Between 1957 and 1964 the Conservative governments of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home presided over a short but key period in 20th-century British history. During this period the British Empire was transformed into a multi-racial Commonwealth. This title examines the end of the empire during its climactic phase and aims to provide a closer understanding of the dynamics involved in decolonization. Published in two parts, it contains 583 official documents and covers many aspects and areas of colonial disengagement together with the main strategic questions of continuing defence commitments in Aden, the Indian Ocean and Singapore.