"Basics Design: Design Thinking" teaches the generation of ideas as a practical skill, vital to the creation of successful design. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favour of a useable methodology for design as a problem-solving activity. This is supported by [...]

Looks at the initial stages of the design process and the vocabulary used on undergraduate design courses. This book offers an overview of various approaches to graphic design, as well as its inherent language. It also looks at methods for generating and developing ideas, research methods, and under[...]

Basics Design 02: Layout (2nd edition) provides a guide to the effective arrangement of text and image elements within a design scheme, enabling students to learn how to create powerful forms of visual communication in both print and electronic media. This title addresses both practical and aestheti[...]

A graphic design project can be viewed as a series of choices; the more informed these choices are, the stronger the resolution can be. Looking at the various research methods available to the student, this title encourages the reader to interact and work with the demographic they are designing for.[...]

One of the fundamental topics within graphic design, format represents the physical point of contact with the user. Basics Design 01: Format examines established format standards and demonstrates how a creative approach to format selection and presentation space can produce dramatic results in both [...]

This book will help you design media that engages, entertains, communicates and 'sticks' with the audience. Packed with examples of groundbreaking interactive design, this book provides a solid introduction to the principles of interactive communication and detailed case studies from world-leading i[...]

The Basics Design series is designed to provide graphic arts students with a theoretical and practical exploration of fundamental topics, including layout, format, typography, colour and image. Packed with examples from students and professionals and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiri[...]

"The Function of Structure" explores the production of singular affects through systems that relate form and content. This is an essential graphic manual on structural systems and their capacity to produce a variety of forms. Extracting their base geometric unit, a wide range of historical projects [...]

Agatha, dottern till en engelsk greve, blev som barn kidnappad och hölls fången i Himalayas bergstrakter av snömän. Åren gick och Agatha blev som en mamma för dem. När deras dal blir hotad vill hon ta sina håriga fosterbarn till sitt barndomshem - herrgården i England.

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Ett stjärnskepp från imperiet störtar på planeten Alpia i utkanten av det kända universum. Den enda överlevande är en liten flicka, systerdotter till härskaren. Cassiopeia Orionis växer upp hos en familj av bergsfolket - kärva invånare under guvernör Regulus styre. Hennes nya bror, Capri[...]

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur o[...]