Let's Ask Michael : 100 Practical Solutions for Interior Design Challenges
Devotees of Payne's HGTV series, Designing for the Sexes, will welcome this richly illustrated user-friendly guide to interior design. Payne, a California interior designer, has compiled frequently asked questions he has received from viewers since his show first aired in 1998. Divided into sections by rooms, the author addresses design issues such as color, space, light and budgetary considerations. For example, a stay-at-home working mother who is using a guest bedroom for an office wonders how to make the room most attractive and efficient for both her and sleepover guests.
The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith - Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England: its Practice and Practitioners
Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, goldsmiths produced work of a high standard in both design and craftsmanship, both for personal adornment, and to embellish bookbindings, reliquaries, vessels and weapons. Some works are well known, particularly the magnificent gold and garnet regalia from Sutton Hoo, but this represents only a fraction even of the surviving work, and much more has been lost.
This book is the first to look at the goldsmiths' products through the eyes of both a specialist in the period and a practical craftsman, combining close examination of the surface and structure of the objects with analysis of inscriptions and evidence for design.
Jeanne Lanvin - a milliner with her own business - attracted so much attention with the clothes she made for her family in the early 1900s, that she began to design for clients. This text presents photographs of her work, characterized by fine embroidery.
Although filled with hundreds of stunning examples of successful design for print and interactive media, this how-to book offers much more. You will learn the theory and gain the tools necessary to create successful designs yourself. Robin Landa, award-winning teacher, author, and designer, provides step-by-step solutions that readers can apply to their own design and advertising projects.
Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
The story of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College—the first substantially green building to be built on a college campus—encompasses more than the particulars of one building. In Design on the Edge, David Orr writes about the planning and design of Oberlin's environmental studies building as part of a larger story about the art and science of ecological design and the ability of institutions of higher learning themselves to learn.
