Industrial / Commercial Art & Design

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines, continents...

Wharton Esherick (1887 1970) stands as a pivotal figure in 20th-century American art, craft, and design. Now known as the Wharton Esherick Museum, ...

Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continua...

Susanne Bartsch has been living in New York since 1981, where she has created a dazzling Gesamtkunstwerk through the creation of her iconic looks a...

Jesuit priest and amateur photographer, Fr Francis Browne is renowned for his images of the Titanic. However, much less well-known are the pictures...

 This book offers a unique and much-needed perspective on disability and accessibility in urban context in South Africa. Drawing on lived experienc...

This book explores speculation in design research in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). The authors reveal how speculative reasoning in...

The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these tw...

Based on extensive archival research, this open access book provides a fresh perspective on the early history of Isotype and pictographic communica...

When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know th...

Drive Time, Sea Time, and Air Time comprise the first horological lifestyle trilogy to survey high-performing timepieces through the lenses of the ...

An in-depth look at Charles and Ray Eames's prolific legacyone that has placed them among the most important American designers of the twentieth ce...