Resultaten (7)
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My Icon Library
Build & Expand Your Own Visual Vocabulary
Paperback || Willemien Brand || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
My Icon Library is an essential collection of impactful images that will empower you to embark on your own journey of visual thinking and storytelling. The collection consist of the most common, interesting, weird and wonderful concepts created during the author’s visual thinking workshops.
The concepts are grouped into categories that regularly crop up at the workshops: ‘finance’, ‘technology’, ‘innovation’, ‘agile’ and ‘sales’, as well as broader themes such as ‘team...
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The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design
Paperback || Bares Raffaelli || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
New in the architectural series (previous published in this series: The Fast Guide to Architectural Form) is The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design. Written by Baires Raffaelli, this book explores ways to create a project that focuses on accessibility. It is a reminder that serves as a checklist for those who design everyday spaces we live in. It is a random (but not too random) collection of indications to make cities more accessible. This book wants to remind us that we are not alone and as...
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Happy is Up, Sad is Down
65 Metaphors for Design
2020 || Hardcover || Jörn Hurtienne e.a. || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
We think, feel and talk in metaphors. Why not use them for design?
Feeling down? Cheer up! We use metaphors every day and often without being aware of it. Many metaphors are more than figures of speech. They reflect basic bodily experiences and help to structure our thinking and experiences of the world. 'Happy is Up, Sad is Down' is a collection of 65 metaphors with research facts and applications in product and interaction design, information graphics and advertising.
Metaphors show how to...
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Beyond Design
Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful
Paperback || Renate Boere || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
The time has come in which graphic designers are playing an important role in rendering ever more complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. To stress this urgency, Renate Boere dove head first in the world of project management lingo, confidentiality statements, copyright, complicated rights contracts, the search for stakeholders and grand applications. This journey has resulted in the journalistic novel 'Beyond Design'.
This designer’s novel provides insi...
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Beyond Design: The Game of Social Solutions
Cards || Renate Boere || BIS Publishers
While writing the journalistic novel, 'Beyond Design', Renate Boere discovered 10 steps that can be taken in order to set up one’s own project. These steps allow designers to render complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. Boere wanted to make this easily accessible and transformed these 10 steps into a game.
'Beyond Design, The Game of Social Solutions' guides you to set up your own socially relevant design project. This game navigates you through the 1...
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Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe
Design Manifesto
2020 || Paperback || Mieke Gerritzen e.a. || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime. Within such a paradigm, design is taken over by the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come wit...
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Culture Sensitive Design
A Guide to Culture in Practice
Paperback || Annemiek van Boeijen || BIS Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new complexity of cultural groups. Consequently, designers are confronted with the challenge of gaining a clear understanding of this cultural diversity. Culture is a complex phenomenon defined by an ongoing process of shifts in human interactions and experiences. In addition to the functional, technical, and economic requirements, it is primarily culture ...