A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Shalvis, JillSummary:
This summer, romance blooms again in Wildstone!After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn...
- Author:Kohlstedt, Kurt, Mars, RomanSummary:
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast.
- Author:Prochner, Isabel, Cardinal, DouglasSummary:
Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country. Contributors bring both scholarly and...
- Author:Meier, SidSummary:
The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the "godfather of computer gaming," and creator of Civilization. Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video...
- Author:Schreier, JasonSummary:
The business of video games is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark games and on to the shocking closures of the studios that made them, Jason...
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Author:Shaver, Ruth M.Summary:The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers-in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this...
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Author:McCarthy, HelenSummary:Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki is the genius behind such animated classics as Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds. His bountiful imagination and compassion have earned him accolades...
- Author:Tracey, DavidSummary:
The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission...
- Author:Richards, HuwSummary:
Huw Richards set himself a challenge - to grow his own fruit and veg for free for a year. He succeeded, and now wants to help you do the same. Can't afford a raised bed? Try repurposing an old wooden pallet. Don't want to...
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Author:Arnold, Lisa Smith, Egan, MarianneSummary:The fast and easy way to learn the art of fashion drawing This fun guide gives you dozens of step-by-step diagrams that walk you through the process of preparing creative illustrations that you can later develop into dynamic...
- Author:Handley, Ann, Chapman, C. C.Summary:
A one-stop source on the art and science of developing marketing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online--and using them to establish...
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Author:Leggett, Kim.Summary:Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design...
- Author:Schreier, JasonSummary:
Journalist Jason Schreier takes readers behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of six hundred overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. This book explores the artistic challenges, technical...
- Author:Osler, MirabelSummary:
"Osler's plea is not so gentle; rather, its opinionated (though never dismissive), bell-clear, wickedly humorous, brilliant--a call for cultivated anarchy in the garden that turns an oxymoron into a sensuous, sensible act. ``Why garden...
