This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.

A guide to the cultural, historical, and social meanings of twenty-seven colors, plus examples of successful usage of each as well as options for palette variations. The Designer’s Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at twenty-seven colors key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in color-by-color sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing color range and palette variations. Chapters detail each color’s creative history and cultural associations, with examples of color use that extend from the artistic to the utilitarian—whether the turquoise on a Reid Miles album cover or the avocado paint job on a 1970s Dodge station wagon. A practical and inspirational resource for designers and students alike, The Designer’s Dictionary of Color opens up the world of color for all those who seek to harness its incredible power.

The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms used within graphic design and associated disciplines. Over 250 terms are explained and contextualized, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary graphic design. The dictionary covers traditional practice and process terms as well as modern terminology. It also defines a wide variety of practical terms, such as Perfect binding, Deboss and Strikethrough, as well as movements and styles including Surrealism, Psychadelia and Postmodernism.

The UX Design Dictionary is the only product of its kind in the market. With over 2,000 terms and definitions covering UX and web design, it is a compact collection of necessary information that can aid students, professionals, as well as non-designers to establish a clear understanding of concepts and projects. This dictionary is meant for professional designers and non-designers alike. The product holds simple, yet concise definitions that are easy to read and understand. With this tool at hand, you will bring your team to the same page in terms of project design and management.

“Covers everything from airbrush to Hermann Zapf.” —Communication Arts The interaction of words and images and the visual communication of ideas are an essential part of daily life, and these concepts are at the heart of graphic design. With over 200 new and updated entries, this indispensable book provides information about typographers, journals, movements and styles, organizations and schools, printers and private presses, art directors, technological advances, design studios, graphic illustrators, and poster artists from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. More than 550 illustrations, extensive cross-references, and a chronological chart outlining the relationship between movements, technology, and individual designers make this an invaluable reference for students and professionals alike.

This book attempts to collect into one volume, of manageable size, a cross section of information about the emergence of design as an important expression of modern realities.* Styles, periods, and movements* Designers and design firms* Critics, writers, and educators* Museums, design schools, and organizations

With a straightforward A-Z organization, and more photos, drawings, and diagrams than any other illustrated dictionary, this dictionary will be a mainstay on the shelves of anyone involved in the building industry. The wide range of topics makes it the only single volume reference to cover all aspects of design, construction, and related business terminology. A sampling of the categories includes: Project Management Construction Process and Management Design-Build Eco-Design and Green Building Marketing and Presentation. No other illustrated construction dictionary covers design, the coordination between the entire design and project delivery process, and the business aspects of the building industry.

Michael Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, authors of the successful, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 2/e, have written Algorithm Engineering, a text designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the design, implementation and analysis of computer algorithms and data structures from a modern perspective. This book offers theoretical analysis techniques as well as algorithmic design patterns and experimental methods for the engineering of algorithms. Market: Computer Scientists; Programmers.

Whether you are a home owner, an amateur restorer or decorator, a realtor, a student, or a professional seeking an indispensable reference book to recommend to clients and/or to use with them, you have probably, at one time or another, wished for an easy-to-use one-stop reference guide for architectural and interior design questions. Part dictionary, part reference book, and part Who's Who all rolled into one, Mary Gilliatt's Dictionary of Architecture and Interior Design is exactly that-a single comprehensive source of information that will help you navigate all decisions related to home decor, from familiarizing yourself with construction techniques and materials to buying furniture, from choosing flooring and wall treatments to collecting decorative glass or ceramic pieces, and from making decisions about the overall style of your home to individual window treatments, room by room. In this dictionary, Mary Gilliatt-a seasoned interior designer and author of over thirty-five books on design-introduces you to the terms, jargon, and famous figures specific to the industry, not only aiding your comprehension of all its varied facets, but also giving you the crucial communication tools necessary to clearly express your needs to professionals and retail specialists. Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer, or hire an architect, interior designer, or contractor, "speaking the same language" will always make every job go smoother and may even help you to avoid costly mistakes.