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miscellaneous
Material World: Innovative Structures and Finishes for Interiors
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Edwin van Onna (Author)
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Birkhauser (Editor)
A veritable cornucopia of over 100 innovative materials, this book also offers architects and designers clever ideas on how to use them. Think of smart materials, for example, which react to changes in the immediate environment, and of materials that produce exceptional optical effects. Consider light but strong composites, flexible building materials and finishing materials for use in architectonic projects. A short description accompanies each item, along with information on composition, technical qualities and possible uses. An application for each material featured includes a good description, illustrations and realisation-related data. A survey of manufacturers and/or suppliers, complete with details on how to contact them, makes this book an indispensable source of information for professionals.
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miscellaneous
Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design
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Sarah E. Braddock Clarke (Author)
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Marie O'Mahony (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
The incredible intersection of textiles, design,and technology and how it influences our twenty-first-century way of life.
Following on the success of the first edition of Techno Textiles, the updated Techno Textiles 2 is completely revised and incorporates over 200 new illustrations, all in color. Textile technology has radically evolved in recent years, and many of the ideas mentioned in the first edition have now become reality, while countless new ones have been conceived.
Techno Textiles 2 highlights advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect, and consumer today. Here are textiles for a new world: fabrics that shrink or expand to the desired size; textiles developed from carbon, steel, glass, and ceramics; materials that protect the wearer from environmental extremes on earth and in space.
The book is divided into three sections: "Innovations" (how the newest textiles are imagined and made); "Applications" (from fashion and design to architecture and art); and "Reference" (a full reference guide, including glossary, biographies, directory of addresses, public collections, and an extensive bibliography). It will become required reading for professionals and for anyone curious about the new environment in which we live. 300 color illustrations.
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mixed media
The Surface Texture Bible: More Than 800 Color and Texture Samples for Every Surface, Furnishing, and Finish
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Cat Martin (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
Today's prevailing design aesthetic is minimalism: clean lines, uncluttered spaces, and simple but elegant materials. Rather than relying on bold fabrics and an overabundance of accessories, designers are allowing surfaces themselves to determine color, pattern, and texture. The perfect tool for this new approach is The Surface Texture Bible, which offers more than 800 samples for surfaces, furnishings, and finishes.
The book is a comprehensive resource for choosing metals, glass, plaster, stone, wood, paper, cork, and many other materials to create visual interest in projects large and small. Appropriate for both amateur and professional interior designers, this handy guide features more than 250 pages of large-format color and texture swatches. Also included is essential advice on installing, maintaining, and cleaning finishes, information about product safety, and a list of email addresses for major international suppliers. With a spiral-bound, easy-to-use format, The Surface Texture Bible provides a virtual showroom where designers can go again and again to select just the right materials for every job. AUTHOR BIO: Cat Martin is an architect who has worked with such firms as Michael Hopkins and Partners and Richard Rogers Partnership. She now runs her own architectural practice and has contributed articles to World Architecture, Vogue Living, and Condé Nast Traveler, among other publications.
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plastic
From Bakelite To Composite
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Adriaan Beukers (Author)
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Moniek Bucquoye (Author)
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Lieven Daenen (Author)
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Klaus Drechsler (Author)
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Vicki McConnell (Author)
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Lut Pil (Author)
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Ignaas Verpoest (Author)
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Stichting Kunstboek (Editor)
Composites. We hardly ever think about them, but we use them everyday. We play, work, fly, ride, eat, wear and build with them. We find them literally everywhere, in skis, surfboards, motor helmets, bicycles, canoes, and silverware. Formula 1 couldn't do without them. In fact, the car and motor industry, the space industry, the aeronautics industry, the building industry, the army, and the medical world can't make much without their material magic. Despite their indispensability, the creation and development of composites is hardly known. From Bakelite to Composite aims to correct this oversight by presenting the history of composites and their various types, processing techiniques and applications in the design and styling of masses of consumer goods. More than 200 illustrations reveal the strength, durability, and lightness of composites as found in furniture, lighting, sporting equipment, cars, and also artworks by Panamarenko, Tony Cragg, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and others. Published in cooperation with the Design Museum, Ghent.
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plastic
Bakelite Style
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Tessa Clark (Editor)
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Book Sales (Editor)
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plastic
Blow-Up: Inflatable Art, Architecture, and Design (Art & Design)
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Sean Topham (Author)
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Prestel Publishing (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Ever since the first hot-air balloons sailed over the French countryside in the eighteenth century, both delighting and terrifying those watching below, the world has had ambivalent feelings towards air-filled forms. This first up-to-date history explores the fear and wonder evoked by inflatable technologies in all aspects of life: from children ?s toys to military craft and everything in between.
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plastic
How to Make Injection Molds
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Georg Menges (Author)
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Walter Michaeli (Author)
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Paul Mohren (Author)
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Hanser Gardner Pubns (Editor)
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plastic
Plastic Part Design for Injection Molding : An Introduction (Spe Books.)
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Robert A. Malloy (Author)
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Hanser Gardner Publications (Editor)
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plastic
Plastic: Materials for Inspirational Design (Materials)
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Chris Lefteri (Author)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
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