Een miljoen Nederlanders stapt er elke dag in, zonder erover na te denken. De trein is echter niet alleen een wonder van techniek, maar ook van design, al lag dat een halve eeuw geleden wel anders. Tussen de comfortabele, geklimatiseerde, van wifi voorziene treinen van tegenwoordig en de sobere, technisch georiënteerde interieurs van toen ligt een wereld van verschil. Treinen ontwerpen, geschreven door iemand die daarvan een halve eeuw lang zijn beroep heeft gemaakt, laat zien hoe design bin...

Design Journeys through Complex Systems combines systemic design, leading thinking practices, and years of the combined authors’ experiences into a practitioner’s handbook for design thinking. By drawing upon the authors’ Systemic Design Toolkit, this book provides detailed knowledge of systems science, expanding upon essential systemic design texts in order to demonstrate the power of visual sensemaking.

No matter if you’re a design professional or have never come across design syste...

Design Journeys through Complex Systems combines systemic design, leading thinking practices, and years of the combined authors’ experiences into a practitioner’s handbook for design thinking. By drawing upon the authors’ Systemic Design Toolkit, this book provides detailed knowledge of systems science, expanding upon essential systemic design texts in order to demonstrate the power of visual sensemaking.

No matter if you’re a design professional or have never come across design syste...

Candles is a photographic essay by Tim Onderbeke. Fascinated by the sacred, ritual, and cerebral act of lighting a candle, the artist began collecting images of candles and candlesticks in an artistic or art-historical context. In Candles, Onderbeke uses his own work and that of others to research what he calls “the colour of darkness,” or negative space – a concept he borrowed from the Japanese writer and essayist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Tanizaki describes this intense experience he ha...

Type Tricks, the third installment in the collection, focuses on usability in typography and how different typefaces and letter shapes influence the way we read. Distilling advanced typographic knowledge into an accessible medium with beautiful illustration, the book acts as a small and handy guide for those looking to impart a certain message from their chosen text.

From beginners looking to learn more about typography to practitioners seeking an advanced level of knowledge without the nee...

People who cannot draw well usually think that professional sketching is a complex and difficult process. However, with this book you will see that even the most complex sketches are just a structure of very simple, yet confidently drawn segments built on each other. It shows which features make drawings look professional and how you can implement those in your own sketches.

The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching - Extended Edition provides you with a very short course, which does not t...

Grafisch ontwerpen biedt praktische informatie voor iedereen die zich bezighoudt met grafische vormgeving op de computer. Deze herziene editie bevat tips en advies over hoe je verschillende soorten projecten ontwerpt en hoe je afbeeldingen en animaties digitaal bewerkt. Daarnaast leer je apps voor tablets en smartphones maken, en ontwerpen voor het web.