Keyword: Architecture
Reinventing the Wheel
This thoroughly unusual book by designer and critic Jennifer Helfand will delight graphic, information, and book designers. It will equally fascinate those interested in intellectual history, history of technology, and popular culture. Helfand begins with an essay that interweaves the history of wheel charts with humanity’s fascination with the circle. The earliest volvelles (graduated movable [...]
Designing Modern Germany
Germany’s design and architecture reflects its rich, fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic ideology. Professor of history of design, Jeremy Aynsley, offers an in-depth study of the relationship between German history and design since the late-nineteenth century and its complex underlying principles. Designing Modern Germany reveals how German attitudes toward national identity, modernity, and [...]
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
Designing Visual Interfaces provides an excellent introduction to the design theory involved in the creation of user interfaces. Instead of the usual examples and pictures of computer screens and application menus, author Kevin Mullet approaches the concept of UI from its “outside world” roots. With examples ranging from street signs to corporate logos to the map of the London Underground, each section attacks the issues of interface design from the ground up […]