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Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

Geometrical Design Coloring Book (Dover Design Coloring Books) (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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This book doesn't offer many design variations & is too simplistic for my tastes. While a few were great optical illusion type (and therefore almost worth the price), there are less than 5 complex designs, the rest are exact repeats with slightly different sized elements, angles, or another simple element added. Boring for those who want a challenge & dislike repeating same theme/concept/design. For no-brainer type meditations where you don't want to focus too much on demands of the design, it would be good, as well as for beginners or those intimidated with too many choices. Of course, some will say there aren't many options for variety because of the geometric theme's limits--but the same could be said for mandala adult coloring books, yet there are an unlimited number of designs & levels of challenge in all the mandala books, that is not found in any of the geometric ones, so far.

The designs were decent quality paper & lines, not best nor worst. See my other mandala/coloring book reviews for more details on the best choices from the 8 sampled (bought & still use). I especially recommend "Power Mandalas" (BEST of all offerings here), but NOT "Classic Mandalas" (low quality design, simple & boring).

HINT: Photocopy, scan & print, or trace each page-design onto good quality craft, watercolor and/or acid-free paper, because you WILL want to frame ALL of your completed work/designs in "Power Mandalas" and still be able to go back & re-do certain ones repeatedly :-) This same hint applies to all of the adult coloring books.
Have fun!
Gina


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Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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Presentation Patterns is the first book on presentations that categorizes and organizes the building blocks (or patterns) that you’ll need to communicate effectively using presentation tools like Keynote and PowerPoint.

Patterns are like the lower-level steps found inside recipes; they are the techniques you must master to be considered a master chef or master presenter. You can use the patterns in this book to construct your own recipes for different contexts, such as business meetings, technical demonstrations, scientific expositions, and keynotes, just to name a few.

Although there are no such things as antirecipes, this book shows you lots of antipatterns—things you should avoid doing in presentations. Modern presentation tools often encourage ineffective presentation techniques, but this book shows you how to avoid them.

Each pattern is introduced with a memorable name, a definition, and a brief explanation of motivation. Readers learn where the pattern applies, the consequences of applying it, and how to apply it. The authors also identify critical antipatterns: clichés, fallacies, and design mistakes that cause presentations to disappoint. These problems are easy to avoid—once you know how.

Presentation Patterns will help you

Plan what you’ll say, who you’ll say it to, how long you’ll talk, and where you’ll presentPerfectly calibrate your presentation to your audienceUse the storyteller’s “narrative arc” to full advantageStrengthen your credibility—and avoid mistakes that hurt itHone your message before you ever touch presentation softwareIncorporate visuals that support your message instead of hindering itCreate highly effective “infodecks” that work when you’re not able to deliver a talk in personConstruct slides that really communicate and avoid “Ant Fonts,” “Floodmarks,” “Alienating Artifacts,” and other errorsMaster 13 powerful techniques for delivering your presentation with power, authority, and clarity 

Whether you use this book as a handy reference or read it from start to finish, it will be a revelation: an entirely new language for systematically planning, creating, and delivering more powerful presentations. You’ll quickly find it indispensable—no matter what you’re presenting, who your audiences are, or what message you’re driving home.


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The event list (Kindle Edition) has new "Design"

Insurgent public space: guerilla urban development and the reorganization of the contemporary cities (Softcover) has a new "Design"

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How To Build Your Own Mobile Web Site In One Day Or Less (Kindle Edition) newly tagged "design"

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Why pay someone hundreds or thousands of dollars to build a mobile Web site for you when you can do it yourself and for less?

In this book, you'll learn how to build your own mobile Web site with or without any programming knowledge.

You'll learn how to do it in one day or less, if you have your own Web space or none at all.

If you know how to "cut and paste" things from your Web browser, you can build your own mobile Web site.

Inside this book you'll discover:

The HTML code to build a basic one-page Mobile Web site.

The HTML code to build a one-page Mobile Web site with buttons.

The HTML code to build a multi-page Mobile Web site with buttons.

The HTML code to put your mobile Web site's icon on smartphone screens.

Free mobile button and icon images you can use in your mobile Web site.

How to create basic and customized QR Codes®.

The HTML code that redirects QR Codes® back to your mobile site.

31 ways to promote your mobile Web site.

25 low-cost marketing tools to promote your site offline.

50 places to put your QR Codes®, and other helpful tips.

This is a great little 97 page book and I'm sure you're going to love it.

Please be kind and review after reading.


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Philosophy for architects (architecture briefs) (Paperback) new "Design" has

It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock an Roll Currents in Contemporary Art (Art & Design) (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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"Design" has new 2013 antique maps wall calendar (calendar)

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Precious moments: A precious moments alphabet book for boys and girls (designs by Gloria & Pat, PM25) (brochure) has new "Design"

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Pattern and Design Coloring Book (Volume 1) (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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Jenean Morrison is a Memphis-based artist and designer who loves creating vibrant patterns and unique, often vintage-inspired designs. Her artwork has been licensed for use on wallpaper, rugs, fabrics, stationery and other products. Clients include Free Spirit Fabric, Sigg, Fisher Price and C.R.Gibson.

Jenean's paintings have twice appeared in New American Paintings and were recently selected for the 2012 Delta Exhibition. A large selection of her prints are on display at the southeast corner of Union and Main in downtown Memphis; and her paintings belong to many public and private collections, including the Bellagio, Aria and Mirage Casinos in Las Vegas and the Skysong Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.

She is a homebody who loves to travel and a playful spirit who loves to work. Her passion for her work shines through in every design!


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Precious moments: this is your day to shine. (No. PM-33). (Paperback) has new "Design"

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Mobile Usability (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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How do we create a satisfactory user experience when limited to a small device? This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices, primarily smartphones and touchphones, and covers such topics as developing a mobile strategy, designing for small screens, writing for mobile, usability comparisons, and looking toward the future. The book includes 228-full color illustrations to demonstrate the points.

Based on expert reviews and international studies with participants ranging from students to early technology adopters and business people using websites on a variety of mobile devices, this guide offers a complete look at the landscape for a mobile world.

Author Jakob Nielsen is considered one of the world's leading experts on Web usability. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Prioritizing Web Usability and the groundbreaking Designing Web Usability, which has sold more than 250,000 copies and has been translated in 22 languages.


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Newly tagged "Design" cool hotels romantic of hideaways (Designpockets) (Paperback)

Ellen McCarn on English Smocking (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for Architectural Composition (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas. With accessible, step-by-step exercises that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors clearly show you how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams.

As you follow the development of the four project groups drawn from the authors’ teaching, you will become familiar with architectural composition concepts such as proportion, site, form, hierarchy and spatial construction. In addition, description and demonstration essays extend concepts to show you more examples of the methods used in the projects. Whether preparing for a desk critique, or any time when a fundamental insight can help to resolve a design problem, this book is your essential studio resource.


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Expressionism (Phaidon 20th century art) (Hardcover) newly tagged "Design"

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New "Design" has undeveloped masterpieces of the 21st century (Hardcover)

Offers a fascinating insight into an architectural firm ambitions and design process and a treasure trove of design ideas.

What happens to the projects that are created for international competitions if they don't win? The grand plans for the hundreds of thousands of dollars or euros in research and development, but the never built will be issued? Or the proposals for speculative builders, to find that at the end of the money? Or the buildings, which are on behalf of Governments also visionary be built? A single image in journals might appear, but most of the plans will disappear, never to be seen.

This book undeveloped projects has over one hundred of the best Diller Scofidio proposed, since the turn of the Millennium by some of the world's greatest contemporary architects, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Foreign Office architects, + Renfro and Zaha Hadid, as well as the rising like Jürgen Mayer h. architects and Asymptote star.

Organized in sections by function - entertainment spaces, museums, urban plans, education, live - the projects are in detail through texts, look at the importance of design and assess why they weren't built with illustrations and plans presented. Many of the more than 600 illustrations were not seen outside of the practices themselves. 747 Color, 153 b & w illustrations


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Paris Underground: The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Metro (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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Mark was born and brought up in London, England and as a kid he was always interested in the media and in trains. He built miniature TV studios out of Lego & sticky backed plastic. He set up a closed circuit radio station which got piped through to other parts of the family home. He collected old maps of trains and often went out exploring closed-down rail lines. Aged 14-16 Mark presented a weekly show on the local hospital radio station, collected records and attempted to DJ at local events. A genuine 'geek' in the making!

Following early interests, Mark's school project was on the London Underground in which he painted a revision of the classic Beck inspired Tube diagram. Marks version kept the diagrammatic style but retained the geographic position of the lines: the resulting mess convinced him why Beck was right to expand the central area but helped gain Mark a place at Art College in Southampton. It was there he conceived of an idea to start a 'what's on' listings magazine for the area. 'Due South' published from November 1982 but Mark stepped down after just a couple of years as Editor to persue more pressing political interests. He become an activist during the 1984/5 Miners Strike. This spurred his journalistic interests and he began working for a local radio station as a trainee reporter. After a few years he was reading the news not making it.

Given his ongoing interest in gay politics and a desire to move to a livelier city, he took a job with the progressive Manchester City Council as an Equality Officer in 1990, delivering training on tackling homophobia in the workplace. Meanwhile Mark developed ideas with a colleague for a national radio show and scored a huge coup by getting BBC Radio 1 to commission their first ever series aimed at young lesbians and gay men: 'loud'n'proud' in 1993. Mark became freelance journalist and newsreader for Manchester's Kiss102 from 1994.

He took four months out in London to work on BBC2's first series for lesbians and gays, 'Gaytime TV' and back at Kiss102, Mark fronted the daily entertainment show 'The Word' , became newsreader 'Peter Parker' for London's Kiss100 breakfast show and was promoted to Programme Manager until 1997 when he became full time producer at BBC Radio 1 on the Annie Nightingale show. In mid 1998 he joined MTV as a freelance Music Programmer then became a producer and presenter at Atlantic252.

In early 2000, Mark moved to Ministry Of Sound, helping set up their DAB Digital Radio station, and as Head of Radio at MoS, Mark applied for and won the licence to run a one month long FM version of the station.

Mark moved into consultancy after this and in 2002 he joined a fledgling TV channel as Channel Manager but by this stage had already become wrapped up in the idea of compiling a book that contained the official map of every urban transit system in the world. "Metro Maps of The World" was published in November 2003 and sold out its first run in a matter of weeks. In September 2005 Mark moved to France to focus on his next book about the Paris Metro. Meantime his original publication was picked up by a Dutch Publisher ('Metrokaarten van der wereld" 2006) and also by Penguin in the USA. The American version, "Transit Maps of The World" was published October 2007. Media coverage was phenomenal and led to unexpectedly high sales, and a Top 100 ranking in the Amazon Sales Charts where it is still often the number one best-selling book in it's category (Mass Transit)! Mark is hugely proud that his work has become the best-selling book about transport design.

The book on the design of the French capital's transit system was published in October 2008 as "Paris Metro Style in map and station design". Penguin US commissioned an American version of it so Mark re-worked the concept, updated the content and it was published on October 24 2009 by Penguin as "Paris Underground, The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Metro".

Mark's next book, a follow-up to the popular transit maps offering, is called 'Railway Maps of the World' and was published by Viking Adult in May 2011. He's also working on three other follow-up books in the design field.

He lives in Paris with two fat cats where he also writes comedy and is a freelance journalist.


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Bits and Pieces (18 Small Quilts from Fat Quarters and Scraps) (18 Small Quilts from Fat Quarters and Scraps) (Hardcover) newly tagged "design"

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What to do with the scraps from other quilts! That is always a question in a quilter's mind. BITS AND PIECES helps solve that problem. While the book is about making small quilts in the size range of 20" square, there is no reason you couldn't make several of the small quilts, put them together and make a bed sized one! A bit of sashing between each "quilt" and you have a large quilt instead. For example, in One Patch Garden, there are lots of colorful square with a border. So just make more squares from your leftovers and you have the bed quilt

Each pattern, of which there are 17, begins with a bit of information about the quilt. Then the size of the finished project is listed and a materials list is given. Cutting instructions come next followed by how to assemble the top and finishing directions. There are plenty of graphics to help you visualize what the instructions are telling you to do. And lots of tips are found in special boxes through out.

Your quilts will most likely not match the ones in the photos as your scraps are sure to be different than the author's. The quilts are divided into four types, those using squares and rectangles, those using triangles, those using diamonds and those using curves and circles with easy appliqué. This makes the book one in which everyone will find a project to their liking.


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Extreme architecture: bulding for challenging environments (Hardcover) has new "Design"

What kind of architecture in an extreme environment is created? In response to some of the ultimate challenges in the architecture, they offer buildings, the insights presented in this book in the extremes of architectural thinking. Some of the lessons they, of self-sufficiency teachings in a world with increasingly unstable become generally applicable more. Lessons from terrestrial environments are used for space, while space technology is also applied to the Earth.

Divided into five chapters - hot, cold, high, wet and space - extreme architecture presents 45 examples of newer buildings for demanding environments developed. It contains a desert refuge in southern Arizona, a floating marine research centre, an underground seed depot in North Norway and a South Pole research station. The height, annual precipitation and average temperature of the location begins with a clearly set out table shown each case study. This information is used by photographs the project show accompanied, if necessary, in its surroundings, as well as by drawings, plans and computer renderings.


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Celebrating the Art of Architecture: 25 Years of Pritzker Prize Winning Architects (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

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Architecture is the art form that most impacts our lives. In 1979, the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize was established to formally recognize the talented architects who enrich our world through their artistry and innovation. Each year since, a living architect whose vision and commitment has produced "significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture" has been honored. A generation of the most outstanding international architects has now received the coveted award. This volume showcases - and celebrates - these inspiring individuals who continue to shape our world through the art of architecture.

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of your own, we have no soul of our own civilization." - Frank Lloyd Wright


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Design It Yourself! A Step-by-Step Workbook for Interior Design (Kindle Edition) newly tagged "design"

Merging her background in fashion, art and design Kimberlee Jaynes creates bold simple interiors with modern and traditional styles residing happily together. Kimberlee has inherited her artistic eye from her mother, fine arts painter Jeanne Graham and her renowned grandfather Carmel, California, photographer, Julian P. Graham.

Since establishing her firm more than a decade ago, her projects have spanned all over Oregon and Washington and taken her to Santa Fe, San Francisco and Stuttgart, Germany.


Kimberlee has a unique ability to personalize the design process, and not box herself into a particular "look." This has been the key to her rapid ascension in the design world.


Her award-winning designs have been published on the cover of The Portrait of Portland Magazine and featured in the Home and Garden section of the Oregonian and in Oregon Home Magazine. Kimberlee is a finalist in the Residential Interiors category of the Benjamin Moore HUE awards and is an Associate member of the Northwest Society of Interior Designers.


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Make Your Home (App) newly tagged "design"

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Autodesk AutoCAD Revit LT Suite 2013--a 1-year Autodesk closes subscription [old version] (DVD-ROM) newly tagged "Design"

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It does include installation support, peripheral device setup, and configuration of product and system variables. You will also receive phone and online resource support. I'll outline the benefits of Basic, Advanced, and Enterprise Priority. This will be a rather lengthy review and you can simply skip over the parts you are not interested in. Just glancing at the benefits will definitely give you an idea as to the type of support and expertise you'll have at your fingertips with a subscription.

SUBSCRIPTION BENEFITS:

Enterprise Priority:

* You will have access to around the clock telephone support for severity 1 issues.

* You will be assigned a support account manager who will personally support requests, work through escalations, and oversee your account needs.

* Proactive support services are customized to meet the individual needs of clients, "including operational assessments and project health checks."

* You'll be able to interact with some of Autodesk's senior leaders and get a chance to meet them at Autodesk University and other company sponsored events.

* If you'd like you'll be able to participate in and offer your input into beta projects.

* You'll have an Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) professional membership with which you can have access to "developer support and training."

* You will be able to have an unlimited number of "named callers" who can contact Autodesk support.

* You will able to reach back in time and obtain resolution of severity 1 problems in "previous releases."

Enterprise Priority & Advanced:

* You have what Autodesk had dubbed "Priority Response Targets." In other words, you're moved to the head of the line and get answers to your questions quicker.

* Remote desktop assistance is available to help you troubleshoot and resolve problems that may arise.

* Support for the application programming interface (API) is available. You can contact "Autoface Developer Support with technical issues related to application programming interfaces (API). I found the ability to access this support is superb.

* 24 x 5 telephone support from Autodesk specialists (access depends on what time zone you are in).

* You can "escalate question" on an online community support forum. Immediate assistance is available. It definitely is because I tried out this feature. My question was not one that could be answered, but I was pointed in another direction with phone numbers.

* You can access updated "webcast training seminars," a must if you encounter problems.

Enterprise Priority, Advanced, and Basic:

* Phone support from Autodesk during local business hours, onceagain dependent on your time zone.

* If you try to access online community support and do not received a response within 24 hours, your request is escalated.

* You have access to web support via community support forums and you can "submit requests" through the Subscription Center.

* There is an online knowledge base "containing a wealth of valuable information." For example, there are several online videos and tutorials. Some are on the Autodesk site while others can be accessed through YouTube.

* You have access to Up-and-Ready which includes installation support, peripheral device setup, and configuration of product and system variables.

I did receive a Comparison Matrix, something that you probably won't receive when you order Autodesk AutoCAD Revit LT 2013 or AutoCAD LT 2013. This comparison really gives one an idea between the capabilities each has to offer, information a small business needs to know prior to investing in one or the other. AutoCAD LT 2013 has only four of the features, two in documentation and two in collaboration. I've decided replicate the Comparison Matrix (Copyright Autodesk, 2012) below, making note of the features AutoCAD LT 2013 has in parenthesis.

Autodesk Revit LT 2012 and AutoCAT LT 2013

Comparison Matrix

DOCUMENTATION

* Create documentation with 2D drafting and detailing tools (AutoCAT LT 2013)

* Place annotations, and dimensions to communicate additional design information (AutoCAT LT 2013)

* Automate the creation of schedules based on building components

* Automatically calculate and track material quantities in cost estimates

* Automatically update every documentation view when revisions are made to your design

3D MODELING

* Use specialized architectural modeling tools for Building Information Modeling to concurrently design and document

VISUALIZATION AND PRESENTATION

* Easily generate 3D orthographic or perspective views from any angle of the model to visualize the space

* Produce compelling, photorealistic renderings with Autodesk 360 Rendering without tying up your desktop

* Create real-time animations/walkthroughs to visualize the building virtually

COLLABORATION

* Design, document, and share files in the DWG format for smoother collaboration with project stakeholders (AutoCAT LT 2013)

* Reference other file formats, including DWF, image formats, and others (AutoCAT LT 2013)

* Exchange Revit files with stakeholders using Autodesk Revit software

AutoCAD 2013

There have been numerous improvements to AutoCAD 2013, some very subtle such as a minor font size increase to major ones such as the "Annotation Monitor" and the addition of Cloud. Some of the improvements are simply blips, but I've outlined what I can see so the individual users can decide for themselves whether or not they want to purchase or upgrade
AutoCAD 2013 is the 27th release, a technology that is used by a wide variety of occupations. The learning curve can be steep and I'd highly recommend adding one or two books to your library. I'd recommend selecting one or two of these: AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Bible by Ellen Finkelstein, Mastering AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 by George Omura and, if you are a novice, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies by Bill Fane.

Changes are the same for AutoCAD LT 2013 for Mac. If you opt for that software, I'd recommend adding Mastering the AutoCAD for Mac by George Omura and Rick Graham.

Hopefully, a simple overview of new/improved updates from AutoCAD LT 2012 and previous editions listed below will help make your purchasing decision.

WHAT'S NEW:

+ A new "Welcome" screen (once called the "Exchange"). It is indeed welcoming and helps you quickly access your work. There is also quick access to Facebook, Twitter,and AutoDesk360.

+ The ability to strike through text, leaders and dimensions (documentation), in addition to bold, italic, underscore, and overscore.

+ The command bar has been relocated to the bottom of the screen. It is interactive only when you work.

+ A current history "floats" above the command bar (you can undo easily) showing what you have just done, including dimensions. As you work it will gradually be removed.

+ You can draw and your line(s) will go behind the bar to the bottom of the page sans interruption.

+ "Annotation Monitor" was added. This helps correct your drawing scale. You can make notes, annotate, scale, you can associate dimensions, etc.

+ There are now options for the radius of a circle that can be accessed by typing C + enter. You can specify the center point or radius and click your options (you no longer have to type them in).

+ The 3D modeling tools have been improved with greater detailing, including section views.

+ The history can be accessed by hitting F2.

+ DWG file format.

+ A preview is available before you execute your work. For example, if you want to add color you can move your cursor over one and the result will be captured on the screen.

+ There is now the ability to layer and view your work with transparency (preview is available).

+ The font on the task bar is jumped up a notch.

+ You now have the ability to download "Language Packs" (English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Vietnamese .)

+ A "Computer Clouding" system is available. You can access your files anywhere as they can be saved via a free AutoDesk 360 account (sign up, access via Welcome page). You can save all automatically by default or by individual choice. You can sync your projects from home to work. Rendering can be done here.

+ 2D model documentation from your 3D AudoCad or Inventor models.

+ You can access online resources through the Autodesk Exchange Apps (many are free).


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Joy of Zentangle: Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being (DO #5398) (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

Pattern has been a passion of mine as far back as I can remember. Zentangle has been a part of my life since August 17, 2012, a little over two months.

Since discovering this art form in Joanne Fink's book "Zenspirations - Letters & Patterning", I have purchased nearly every Zentangle book I can find, as well as the kit at Zentangle.com, created by the founders of this art form, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.


As a beginner in this art, I found "Joy of Zentangle - Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being" to be comprehensive, informative and truly inspiring. It is a fabulous book.


"Joy" is the perfect word to describe how I feel about this book. "Joy of Zentangle" includes step-by-step illustrations showing how to create each of the 101 tangles presented in Chapter 5. A very high percentage of these 101 tangles are new to me, and the few familiar designs (such as Hollibaugh and Rick's Paradox) are classics that belong in a book as comprehensive as this one.


These are just some of the features that set this book apart from the rest:


The inspiring stories of how Zentangle has touched lives. A little "Chicken Soup for the Zentangle Soul".


Color photographs of objects that inspired some of the tangles shown in the book.


Fun exercises to expand your tangle repertoire.


Better instructions for shading techniques.


The best and most thorough explanation I've found in book form of what Zentangle is.


A foreword/introduction by Alan Giagnocavo, Publisher, Fox Chapel Publishing/Design Originals. He gets it.


This book is an excellent value. Full price or discounted, I think it is worth every penny. I know I'll come back to it time and time again for reference and inspiration.


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White Light: Heiberg Cummings Design (Hardcover) newly tagged "design"

Norway and New York City-based interior designers Bernt Heiberg and Bill Cummings of Heiberg Cummings Design bring both an eye for Scandinavian minimalism and an appreciation for a traditional American aesthetic to each of their projects.
Bernt and Bill value individual expression above all, and are profoundly inspired by their clients’ own tastes and personalities. Whether reimagining a secluded home in the country or an apartment looking out over the skyline of Manhattan, the firm tailors each space to its unique inhabitants. With a flair for elegant details, their personal signature is a fusion of light, spaciousness, and muted colors that resonates with contemporary taste.

This spirit is evident in this lavishly illustrated book, which includes a combination of formal essays and handwritten notes detailing Bernt and Bill’s inspirations and thought processes, as well as snapshots of glamorous events and locations. The whimsical text combined with the vivid mix of color, black and white, and collage-style prints perfectly illustrate the eclectic style of this up and coming design firm.


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Cover for fashion design (5th Edition) (Paperback) has new "Design"

I bought this book as a supplement my drape class and others drape book Helen Joseph Armstrong of draping for apparel design. In this book, FYI are Jaffe draping for fashion design and Helen Joseph-Armstrong's book the two most commonly assigned to drape books fashion design studies.

ADVANTAGES:
-Very compact and lucid book. This is useful if you exclude a reference, the superfluous "beginner" material and need a book to carry with you. In any case much easier than the others carry standards reference of Joseph Armstrong's book. I love it, as it provides only the essential information.
-Covers a variety of drape topics, including the standard and the variations on skirts, shirts, dresses, trousers, sleeves, collar, different kinds of bodices, etc. This book will drape over the opening.

DISADVANTAGES:
-Requires at least a basic background in drape / pattern-making and the willingness to do a lot of trial and error. Because it is so concise, you will find all need to learn a lot to experiment the unwritten nuances of cover.
-Minimum amount of numbers sometimes make it very difficult to interpret, so that it is more necessary to supplement this book with a class or another book.

TOTAL:
A very important resource to substantially rely on due to its concise and it is to keep size. I highly recommend it for someone who has a strong background in drape and needs only a reference, or for someone who held an introductory class at the same time. Drape for someone who is only to learn for the first time and any class, I would recommend the larger/bulkier and more detailed Joseph Armstrong book (price is the same as this Jaffe book).


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Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation (Hardcover) newly tagged "design"

"In London in the early 1970s, a conceptual artist named William Furlong began harnessing the cassette for his unlikely purposes in the visual arts. The motivation wasn't dauntingly conceptual: he and his friends talked a lot and listened to the conversations of other artists and realized something. It became apparent to us," Mr. Furlong said "that none of that talk and none of our interests were being met by any traditional arts publications."

Phaidon Press has now published Speaking of Art, a small sampling of the immense undertaking that resulted from that dissatisfaction. Beginning in 1973, with the help of a few collaborators, Mr. Furlong created Audio Arts, a no-budget ?magazine? composed solely of cassette recordings of interviews with artists Mr. Furlong found interesting. He mailed them to friends and subscribers, at first hundreds and then thousands.[...] Speaking of Art is made to resemble a cassette, with an "A" side and a flip-over "B" side and shiny dark-brown endpapers to evoke magnetic tape. It presents edited transcripts of 43 artists from the archive [...] The excerpts from their conversations skew more toward the academic (Mr. Furlong has been an art professor most of his life) than toward the breezy tone of Paris Review interviews. But they never veer far from Mr. Furlong's guiding principle that he is talking with artists, not interviewing them." (Randy Kennedy (New York Times))

William Furlong is the founder of Audio Arts, a unique audio 'magazine' that is distributed and heard internationally. For over thirty years he has recorded interviews with leading international artists at the most significant exhibitions and events in Britain, Europe and the USA. He is an internationally respected figure in the art world and extremely knowledgeable as an interviewer and editor. He moved from teaching at Wimbledon School of Art in 2003 to the role of Visiting Professor and devotes his time to continuing to produce and archive Audio Arts as well as practicing as an artist.

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Clothing manufacturing: sewn product analysis has 4th Edition (Paperback) new "design"

Apparel manufacturing: Sewn product analysis to provide a conceptual framework of the manufacturing process for future apparel professionals. It helps the students involved in the complex decision making, marketing, merchandising, and manufacture of wearing apparel, understand the needs of the target clients. Our intention is to provide a global, integrated perspective, so that readers understand the relationship between processes and decisions.

The contents of five parts, which is divided on the factors, which determine cost, price, quality, performance and value of garments.

Part I presents a broad perspective of the Organization of the clothing industry, the roles of marketing and merchandising, and the complexity of operating in a global Markt.Teil II provides a comprehensive discussion of clothing development processes, including the development of standards and specifications. Specific roles of design and technical design will be reinforced with new sections to the Foundation garment fit and finishing.Part III deals with clothing management with a focus on quality, costs, materials, product development and production examined production processes, taking into account Beschaffung.Teil IV, engineering, production and management and human resources, which underlay, stitch pre-production, equipment and Endbearbeitung.Teil V focuses on management issues and decisions related to materials, fasteners, support, trims.Attachments can readers sewn product choices to three basic apparel products, which among other T-shirts men's dress pants and shirts to relate.

Our aim of Fourth Edition clothing production: product analysis sewn remains the same as it was for the first edition: provide a broad conceptual and some theoretical perspective of apparel manufacturing, which will serve as a basis for future apparel professionals. We have consulted professionals, trade associations, visited factories in national and international locations, and took part in numerous clothing with related conferences and workshops, to complement academic and personal observations.

Although our textbook by professionals in all segments of industry is widely used, it is our goal to support textile and clothing students to a better understanding of garment manufacturing and complex decision making clothing for the production to the needs of the target clients. Our intention is to offer a comprehensive and integrated perspective, students have a comprehensive understanding of the business and apparel professionals to be well prepared.

The textbook contains a professional approach, industry language with academic orientation and an improved conceptual framework reflective of changes in the global industry. The content in five parts, which is divided on the factors, which determine cost, price, quality, performance and value of garments.

Part i. "Introduction to clothing manufacturing," manufacturers and the complexity of operating in a world market, the functional organization of the clothing deals with questions relating to the concepts of product performance and quality,. There is a greater emphasis on the global and retail. The first chapter is "Organization of the clothing industry." The new version contains descriptions of the different types of retailers and trade associations. Part I contains also updated versions of the chapter "Marketing strategies" and "merchandising processes." These include a market analysis of the US jeans wearing and positioning strategies for men's shirts.

Part II is entitled "Product Development." It includes three chapters, with factors in terms of affecting product analysis, specification development and the specific roles of design and technical design into the development processes of clothing. Chapters 4 and 5 have the 3rd Edition has been cancelled. New career opportunities in the industry are still in Chapter 4. The garment analysis guide has been improved to garment analysis and specification development. There are new sections to the Foundation garment fit and finishing.

Part III, "Dimensions of Apparel Management" includes four chapters, dealing with clothing management in a global environment. The order of the chapters was changed to "Cost, costing, pricing and profit," move before the chapters on procurement. As a result, students will cost concepts relate to sourcing issues. . "Materials, the procurement and selection" starts with the discussion of the global textile complex. "Product development and production sourcing" now includes an advanced discussion of the costs of imports.

Part IV, "Focus on production," consists of five chapters, with respect to the production processes. Contents of "Apparel Engineering" and "prototypes operations although not significantly changed, has been ordered to reduce duplication of work and to improve the flow of information,

Part V, "results management" includes three chapters, focusing on issues relating to support locks and braids with materials. The content has been updated to reflect new materials and applications that are viable options for the development of products for the specialty markets of today.

As with previous editions, there are three annexes, which explains how garment analysis system applications. Styling, material selection and manufacturing methods for three basic products are relatively target markets, price range and analyzed consumer expectations.


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Whiteboard Selling: Empowering Sales Through Visuals (Paperback) newly tagged "design"

Create compelling whiteboard presentations to engage your customers and win their business

Whiteboard Selling offers a step-by-step approach to transforming your message and selling style by using powerful visual stories that inspire and engage customers and prospects. Free your sales force from relying on slides and other static sales tools during the sales process. Whiteboard Selling offers practical guidance and skills to enable marketing and sales teams to quickly adopt visual story telling practices that apply to today's fast-moving, competitive selling environment. Explains how to take a sales message inventoryIllustrates how to design your visual storiesEmpowers your sales force to tell the story and extend the reach of visual storytelling

Through the power of technology and effective storytelling, you and your team can create and deliver effective presentations that engage your customers, hold their attention, and win their business. Whiteboard Selling shows you how.


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