Applicable to a wide spectrum of design activity, this book offers an ideal first step, clearly explaining fundamental concepts and methods to apply when designing for the user experience. Covering essential topics from user research and experience design to aesthetics, standards and prototyping, User Experience Design explains why user-centered methods are now essential to ensuring the success of a wide range of design projects. This second edition includes important new topics including; di...

This accessible book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design. Lavishly illustrated, it is both a great source of inspiration and a provocative record of some of the best examples of graphic design from the last hundred years. The entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs, split fountain); to stylistic (swashes on caps, loud typography, and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks); and methods (pap...

75 Tools For Creative Thinking is a brand new card set that stimulates your creative thinking in various stages of any process or situation where new ideas are desired. Being applicable to a diverse range of professions and situations, 75 Tools For Creative Thinking suits anyone who is interested in exercising and improving his or her creativity.

The toolbox consists of 5 card decks:

1. Get Started

2. Check Around

3. Break It Down

4. Break Free

5. Evaluate & Select.

The individual tools within ...

Heb jij het ook wel eens dat je creativiteit het helaas laat afweten?

Je wilt graag mooie creaties maken maar je bent niet geïnspireerd en er komt gewoonweg niets uit je handen.

Dan is dit Nail art Inspiratie boek wat voor jou!

Geen stappenplannen en tips over hoe je alles moet doen maar keiharde nail art designs waar je niet om heen kunt.

Meer dan 500 nail art designs kant en klaar voor jou om vlekkeloos over te nemen of om je te laten inspireren en het je eigen te maken.

Maar dat is n...

Not all of us get to work on multi-million corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. Whether you are new to the sector, honing your skills or if you have to tackle identity projects in the real world, Know your Onions – Corporate Identity is a broad introduction on identity design (not branding - don’t worry, you’ll learn the difference).

If you want a book that tells you how to do it, this is for you - if you want a book about how other people have done it - then...