Idea Searching for Design

Idea Searching for Design
Author: David Bramston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350033901

The second edition of Idea Searching examines methods of generating and identifying ideas, and teaches you to understand what is being observed and recorded. Using lavish illustrations, concise case studies and practical examples, it explores how different experiences, contexts and references are important in identifying an idea that is appropriate for a particular individual, target audience or culture. Advocating a step-by-step approach to generating ideas and brainstorming, it encourages an open mind in the development of ideas and teaches you to always question convention. The text is accompanied by a variety of case studies and examples of work from the world's best contemporary product designers. It also includes a number of new projects for students, to encourage further exploration of ideas.

Basics Product Design 01: Idea Searching

Basics Product Design 01: Idea Searching
Author: Dave Bramston
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 2940373760

Basics Product Design- Idea Searching advocates a step-by-step approach to generating ideas and brainstorming. The author encourages an open mind in the development of ideas and teaches the reader to always question convention. The text is accompanied by a variety of case studies and examples of work taken from the best of contemporary product design.

The Graphic Design Idea Book

The Graphic Design Idea Book
Author: Gail Anderson
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1780679939

This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.

The Smashing Idea Book

The Smashing Idea Book
Author: Cameron Chapman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119977428

Presents a collection of design ideas and more than seven hundred examples from websites to help create an effective Web site.

Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life
Author: William Burnett (Consulting professor of design)
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781784701178

At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage. A well-designed life means a life well-lived. Many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, 'What do I want to be when I grow up? Stanford innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who and where we are, our careers and our age. Designing Your Life puts forward the idea that the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products and spaces can be used to build towards a better life and career by a design of your own making. - '[Designing Your Life] teaches you how to change whats not working by turning ideas on their head Viv Groskop, author of How To Own The Room - 'An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford Universitythis book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics Publishers Weekly / Produktinformation.

The Idea of Design

The Idea of Design
Author: Victor Margolin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262631662

An anthology of essays addressing the nature and practice of contemporary product and graphic design, selected from volumes four through nine of the international journal Design Issues. Themes include reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. Includes b & w photos and illustrations. c. Book News Inc.

Sprint

Sprint
Author: Jake Knapp
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501121774

From inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution? Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign. In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book. A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It can replace the old office defaults with a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team—and helps you spend your time on work that really matters.

Idea Searching for Design

Idea Searching for Design
Author: David Bramston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1472581970

The second edition of Idea Searching examines methods of generating and identifying ideas, and teaches you to understand what is being observed and recorded. Using lavish illustrations, concise case studies and practical examples, it explores how different experiences, contexts and references are important in identifying an idea that is appropriate for a particular individual, target audience or culture. Advocating a step-by-step approach to generating ideas and brainstorming, it encourages an open mind in the development of ideas and teaches you to always question convention. The text is accompanied by a variety of case studies and examples of work from the world's best contemporary product designers. It also includes a number of new projects for students, to encourage further exploration of ideas.

Change by Design

Change by Design
Author: Tim Brown
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0061937746

In Change by Design, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the celebrated innovation and design firm, shows how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

The Logo Design Idea Book

The Logo Design Idea Book
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781786274120

The Logo Design Idea Book is an accessible introduction to the key elements of good logo design, including insights into the logos of iconic brands. This guide is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to learn the basic about designing a logo. The book introduces the key elements of good logo design and is perfect for graphic design and branding inspiration. Written by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson, world's leading authorities on design, The Logo Design Idea Book includes 50 logo examples of good ideas in the service of representation, reputation and identification. Arrows, swashes, swooshes, globes, sunbursts and parallel, vertical and horizontal lines, words, letters, shapes and pictures. Logos are the most ubiquitous and essential of all graphic design devices, representing ideas, beliefs and, of course, things. They primarily identify products, businesses and institutions but they are also associated, hopefully in a positive way, with the ethos or philosophy of those entities. Perfect for students, beginners or anyone curious about logo design! Chapters include: Give personality to letters Develop a memorable monogram Make a symbol carry the weight Transform from one identity to another Make a mnemonic Illustrate with wit and humor Include secret signs Get more design inspiration from other Idea Books: The Graphic Design Idea Book The Illustration Idea Book The Typography Idea Book