Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind...(展开全部)

How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enligh...(展开全部)

奧托·艾舍（Otl Aicher，1922年5月13日－1991年9月1日），生於烏爾姆，1991年9月1日逝於拜揚邦鈞茲堡。艾舍在一個堅決與納粹極權對立的環境中長大。讀小學時，與偉納紹爾（Werner Scholl）為同校同學。之後認識漢斯和蘇菲，他們是偉納的弟妹。為一位天主教信徒，青少年時期，他因為拒絕加入希特勒少年隊，而於1937年被逮捕，且被禁止參加1941年的高中畢業考試。（但二戰結束後，學校補頒給他高中畢業文憑）。1941年被徵召入伍，納粹黨欲提供他當軍官的機會，但被他拒絕。服役期間，他拒絕了所有可能升遷的機會，且由於受傷，得以不被派上戰場。 1943年，當漢斯和蘇菲兩兄妹因參與白玫瑰反抗納粹運動而被處決時，他協助了紹爾一家人。1945年他自軍中逃亡，和紹爾一家人躲在巴登符騰堡邦艾瓦廷恩。1946年，進入慕尼黑造型藝術學院學習雕刻，隔年在...(展开全部)

Product Description Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design' - Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams' life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, and how they can live better. Products he designed in the 1960s are still being produced and sold today - only one demonstration of the streng...(展开全部)

奧托·艾舍（Otl Aicher，1922年5月13日－1991年9月1日），生於烏爾姆，1991年9月1日逝於拜揚邦鈞茲堡。艾舍在一個堅決與納粹極權對立的環境中長大。讀小學時，與偉納紹爾（Werner Scholl）為同校同學。之後認識漢斯和蘇菲，他們是偉納的弟妹。為一位天主教信徒，青少年時期，他因為拒絕加入希特勒少年隊，而於1937年被逮捕，且被禁止參加1941年的高中畢業考試。（但二戰結束後，學校補頒給他高中畢業文憑）。1941年被徵召入伍，納粹黨欲提供他當軍官的機會，但被他拒絕。服役期間，他拒絕了所有可能升遷的機會，且由於受傷，得以不被派上戰場。 1943年，當漢斯和蘇菲兩兄妹因參與白玫瑰反抗納粹運動而被處決時，他協助了紹爾一家人。1945年他自軍中逃亡，和紹爾一家人躲在巴登符騰堡邦艾瓦廷恩。1946年，進入慕尼黑造型藝術學院學習雕刻，隔年在...(展开全部)

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The authors offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods. The contents of the articles range from how to design ideas, methods and technologies via creativi...(展开全部)

From best-selling author Donald A. Norman, the long-awaited sequel to The Design of Everyday Things : a critical look at the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is w...(展开全部)

the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions. Design is the Problem...(展开全部)

There are many different ways in which a product can be manufactured, but most designers probably know only a handful of techniques in any detail. Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of the man...(展开全部)

*Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic. Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond materi...(展开全部)