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Design Theory


Design Theory Books

The Design of Everyday Things
Universal Principles of Design
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Designing Design
The Elements of Typographic Style
Interaction of Color
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
Thoughts on Design
The Sciences of the Artificial
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Understanding Design (revised edition)
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design: 150 Essential Tools for Architects, Artists, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Inventors, and Makers (Rockport Universal)
Designing for People
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ROY G. BIV by Jude StewartColor Design Workbook by Noreen MoriokaThe Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin P. WilliamsThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Design for Non-Designers
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Quotes Tagged “Design Theory”

Tom Turner
“ Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century. ”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape
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Tom Turner
“ Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything. ”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape
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Videos Tagged “Design Theory”

Patterns of Nature: Branching (a training video with Maggie Macnab)
Patterns of Nature: Branching (a training video with Maggie Macnab)

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