In the frontier of the museum & public exhibition scene, a contemporary artistic staging practice, called scenography, has grew out from the theatre context and keeps expanding its influence in the exhibition design context in the rise of experience economy.

A career-spanning monograph of the work of NUNO, one of Japan’s most innovative and respected textile design studios.

The purpose of ‘Optic’ to attempt a survey of optical effects in graphic design and to help distinguish their various forms.

Through a series of essays by architects, geographers, historians, economists, urbanists, and philosophers, Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion explores whether an alternative paradigm in design is possible, and what values it might be founded on.

The cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces.

In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering.

In this book, Lluís Morillas, president of Morillas, Spain’s longest-running brand consultancy, which has been at the helm of Spanish design for 60 years, shares the professional and personal lessons he has learned throughout his intense career.

For more than 100 years, Michigan-based Herman Miller has played a central role in the evolution of modern and contemporary design, producing timeless classics while creating a culture that has had a remarkable impact on the development of the design world.

This book presents Dieter Rams' aesthetic philosophy through highlights from a forty-year career designing iconic consumer products that enhance our daily lives.

Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession.

This article presents a study of the design history of the snowsuit as a product type and explores the constitutive factors in its development.

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches.

On the secret life and future of street furniture in both the contemporary imagination and the city streets themselves.

Drawing on decades of researching design thinking and teaching it to people not trained in design, Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, and Jessica Eldridge offer a guide for how to create these deep experiences at each stage of the design thinking journey, whether for an individual, a team, or an organization.

The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces." --The New York Times Book Review

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.

A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.

A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.

Human-centered design is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, and numerous design works and shows the way to a relational and expansive design based on humility and cohabitation.

An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Demonstrates why design can--and must--lead the transition to a sustainable future.

Design Justice is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities.

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.

Reusing existing buildings can be challenging to accomplish, but changing the way we think about environmentally conscious architecture has the potential to significantly reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions, and waste.

As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond.

For good or bad, all design is social