SOLAR FUTURES: How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun by solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the future of solar energy.

Solar energy needs a new narrative – one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about efficiency and the payback time of blue solar panels. This publication illustrates what we need to know to transition from solar technology to solar design using everyday integrated aesthetic solutions.

This publication is divided into three parts: the first pa...

In this, the first product design book devoted purely to styling, Peter Dabbs helps students and professionals to understand how to style their own consumer-focused products. Providing a clear and simple breakdown of the stages in the styling process, Product Design Styling is packed with: Annotated illustrations, Photographs of industry examples, Modified images showing proportions, silhouettes and lines. The clear text and visual examples guide you through a structured professional styling ...

Ontwerper Maarten Kolk nam het initiatief tot deze publicatie naar aanleiding van zijn afstudeerproject aan de Design Academy Eindhoven.Het concept voor deze publicatie is ontstaan vanuit zijn fascinatie voor groentetuinen en de gedachte dat gewone dagelijkse dingen te vaak als vanzelfsprekend worden beschouwd. Iedereen consumeert elke dag groente, maar de oorsprong en groeiwijze van groente is voor velen een raadsel.Kolk liet zich voor Doorgeschoten simpelweg leiden door de dagelijkse ontwik...

The international fashion police is a force to be reckoned with. Armed with a seemingly endless list of rules, it dictates all the do's and don'ts and acts as judge and jury in dealing with those guilty of committing a fashion faux-pas. But while some of the rules that are enforced by the fashion-conscious are nothing short of ridiculous, others serve more as words of wisdom that can prevent people from committing a crime against fashion. This book contains fifty-one rules like "Dress Your Ag...

Innovation is highly relevant to every organization. Yet, eighty percent of innovation projects never reach the market. Many have a false start. The Innovation Expedition is written to inspire you with practical tools on HOW to start innovation effectively. It gives you practical and visual tools.The remarkable stories of how great explorers overcame unexpected setbacks will inspire you. How Columbus discovered America, how Hillary reached the summit of Everest and how Neil Armstrong got to b...

Intercultural Design Basics is an intercultural and innovative approach to design education. A unique companion app ensures relevance for a young technology-minded target group.

The book gives intercultural insights when discussing the basic principles of design, typography and color theory. It incorporates contrasting ideas on design and various design teaching methods. Creative voices of well-known and not yet discovered designers from Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia will help expa...

"Type Tricks: Layout Design is the follow-up to Type Tricks and the second book in the trilogy of user manuals about typography related matters. The first book was about type design, the second book is about type layout and the final book will be about type usability. Sometimes you do not have the time to read a book cover to cover, but you simply are looking for some main pointers to help you move forward. This book is precisely for these kinds of situations. 

The book covers both key typog...

Grondslagen van de typografie is een vertaling van Robert Bringhursts wereldwijde bestseller The Elements of Typographic Style (versie 4.1). Een boek voor zowel de professionele vormgever als voor iedereen die te maken heeft met het opmaken van tekst en belangstelling heeft voor typografie.

De gerenommeerde Duitse typograaf Hermann Zapf omschreef Bringhursts boek als “a must for everybody in the graphic arts” en concludeerde “all desktop typographers should study this book … I wish to...