Best-selling author Robin Williams's simple, logical principles for using type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the original edition was published in 1989. This updated edition includes new examples and expanded information dedicated to the practical advice that made the first edition an enduring bestseller. Throughout, Robin shows you the small details that separate the pros from the amateurs: typographer versus typewriter quotation marks, en and em dashes, tabs and indents, kerning, leading, white space, widows and orphans, and hanging punctuation. If you prepare documents, you'll find The Mac is not a typewriter, Second Edition an indispensable guide. And those who read your documents will recognize the work of a pro, even if they don't know a curly quote from curly fries.

    In this idea-filled book, she presents readers with dozens of suggestions and advice for living fully today.

    With simple, creative guidance, this book teaches readers how to learn what they want to learn from the media and other communication sources.

    Now back in print, this groundbreaking book remains the most complete catalog of their studio ever produced, examining in considerable depth every project--more than 200 in all--produced by the Eameses and their office of topflight designers from 1941 to 1978.

    This volume reproduces one such collection ― an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs assembled more than a century ago by two French Jesuit scholars. Relying on historical wall and floor tiles, textile patterns, tapestries, wall hangings, and other designs originating in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later European and Islamic cultures, Charles Cahier (1807–1882) and Arthur Martin (1802–1856) produced a work of true artistic distinction. Included are a wealth of splendid floral, animal, bird, and geometric patterns, carefully researched and meticulously redrawn for use in a myriad of graphic and artistic projects. Many of the motifs are accompanied by complementary border designs, an often essential accessory. This edition faithfully reproduces the edition published in 1868, titled Suite aux mélanges d'archéologie. It represents an invaluable copyright-free resource embodying the finest designs from historic sources, ready for use by artists, illustrators, craftspeople, and designers working with textiles, wallpapers, interior decoration, and other projects.

    After covering the more scientific aspects of colour theory, the author offers information which analyzes a subject in terms of local, tonal, reflected and shadow colour.

    Here is a stunning new collection of classic mind-teasers--elegantly conceived and beautifully presented by one of the world's top design groups.

    The authors,take the reader from a better understanding of the many types of wayfinding difficulties that people have,and why they have them,through an explanation of what wayfinding is and how the process works,to detailed examinations of the architectural,graphic,audible and tactile components involved in wayfinding design. A prescription,in effect,for a much-needed,brand-new design discipline.

    Book describes five "SHAPE Personalities" (Box, Triangle, Rectangle, Circle or Squiggle). System is FUN and easy to use and very popular with corporate managers and team leaders.

    

    Prepares readers to understand how the elements of design are used to make successful compositions. The first portion of the book is a comprehensive examination of fundamental design phenomena and a general introduction of compositional concepts. The second portion is an in-depth and unique discussion of compositional structures & strategies.

    Many poka-yoke ideas come from line workers and are implemented with the help of engineering staff or tooling or machine specialists. The result is better product quality and greater participation by workers in efforts to improve your processes, your products, and your company as a whole.The first section of the book uses a simple, illustrated format to summarize many of the concepts and main features of poka-yoke. The second section shows 240 examples of poka-yoke improvements implemented in Japanese plants.The book:Organizes examples according to the broad issue or problem they address.Pinpoints how poka-yoke applies to specific devices, parts and products, categories of improvement methods, and processes.Provides sample improvement forms for you to sketch out your own ideas.Use Poka-yoke in study groups as a model for your improvement efforts. It may be your single most important step toward eliminating defects completely. (For an industrial engineering perspective on how source inspection and poka-yoke can work together to reduce defects to zero, see Shigeo Shingo's Zero Quality Control.)

    In Design Discourse, Victor Margolin gathers together a body of new writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society.

    

    Individual chapters cover graphics, buttons, text, sound, stack structure and the user interface.

    But despite their ubiquity and because they often serve commerce, these visual messages are seldom deemed significant or worthy of critical attention.

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    Shows how to adapt knot gardens, water gardens, beds and borders, steps and fences, and other garden features from the past into one's own landscaping.

    150 full-color photographs.

    Color and cloth: The quiltmaker's ultimate workbook

    These magnificent sketches, stage sets, and costumes come from drama, musicals, ballet, and opera. They include Alison Chitty's suspended, golden representation of the heavens for several Shakespeare plays; Patrick Robertson's and Rosemary Vercoe's modern-day conception of Rigoletto, and John Napier's elaborate, futuristic creation for Starlight Express.

    

    This 1989 study provides an authoritative account of their architectural style and development and a companion volume to Dr Goy's Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon (1985). In a broadly based and fully illustrated discussion, the author aims to show how certain, often palatial, architectural forms found in the Venetian metropolis were modified when transferred to the outlying, 'suburban' communities of the lagoon, which were constructed in far more trying conditions when materials and skilled labour were both in short supply. The book offers an encyclopaedic guide to almost all aspects of the building process, paying particular attention to materials, motifs, decoration and the organisation of labour, and also gives valuable English translations of such primary sources as Sansovino and Palladio.

    The author emphasizes the integrative mechanisms that encompass the entire cell surface, and pays particular attention to genetic and non-genetic mirror-image reversals of asymmetry. A conceptual model for large-scale intracellular organization is included. The perspective derived from ciliate studies is applied to the early development of multicellular organisms, particularly embryos of Drosophilia. The book will be accessible to developmental biologists with no prior familiarity with ciliates.