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Cover of The Story of Graphic Design

Patrick Cramsie’s book entitled The Story of Graphic Design, is a must for those working in the creative industries. It blends both detailed historical references and showcases our modern interpretations of font, some no less than a decade old, but in our ‘i-Everything’ world, the images slip by, and are forgotten way too easily. This thorough book brings to life a broad range of graphic thought from the invention of writing to the birth of digital design. Our interview will be uploaded in two parts, with a new set of images from the book added each day, to wet your appetite and accompany the article.

Corridor’s Phil Nutley and Chris Inkpen caught up with Patrick and asked him a few questions for Despoke.
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Are friends at RIBA Bookshops are giving away a another fantastic bundle of books on interiors and design. Including the much anticipated BIID Interior Designers Job Book

For a chance to win please answer the question below:

Which practice has reworked the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden, London?
Email your answer to dannielle.price@ribabookshops.com by September 15th 2010. A winner will be drawn at random

Books in the prize draw are

The BIID Interior Design Job Book
Stephen Yakeley and Diana Yakeley

The BIID Interior Design Job Book is the first book to set out the professional standard for running an interior design project. Suitable for all interior designers – whether working alone or as part of a design team, and on projects of all sizes – it provides guidance for every stage of a job, from appraisal of the client’s requirements through to practical completion and payment.

Set out as a step-by-step process which dovetails with the standard procedures used by architects and contractors, it is full of practical advice and includes model letters and specimen forms which can be quickly adapted to any job in question. It also contains guidance to the legal background, a clause-by-clause explanation of the standard form of client contract, as well as an introduction to space planning. Fully endorsed by the British Institute of Interior Design, the Job Book will bring a professional rigour to the way projects run and is vital for achieving a professional edge in a competitive field.
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Coming Soon: The BIID Interior Design Job Book
The BIID Interior Design Job Book is the first book to set out the professional standard for running an interior design project. Suitable for all interior designers – whether working alone or as part of a design team, and on projects of all sizes – it provides guidance for every stage of a job, from appraisal of the client’s requirements through to practical completion and payment.
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Great Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the epicentre of the development of modern industrial design. This book explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the 18th century to the Millennium Dome and beyond. It explores the Arts and Crafts Movement, and British designers’ take on the digital devices.
MOMA / Paperback / 145 pages / June 2010 / Code 71483 / ISBN: 978 8 87439 539 2
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Shipping containers are modular, affordable, and virtually indestructible. More and more often they are being used to build temporary structures such as pavilions, offices, galleries, and bars that can be easily moved if necessary. This phenomenon has a name: container architecture.
Container Atlas presents a wide range of contemporary projects along with an in-depth investigation into the background and evolution of this topical field.
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Thomas Feichtner (b. 1970) is an Austrian designer who, after considerable successes in the field of industrial design (ski bindings, ball-point pens, fire extinguishers), has recently begun to turn heads again with his unusual approach to design. His new work in the area of furniture and object design is positioned midway between industry and handicrafts, mass production and one-of-a-kinds. This monograph uses sketches, preliminary models, and prototypes to provide a detailed presentation of his experimental working methods. With texts by Peter Noever, Bernhard E. Bürdek, Shonquis Moreno, Lilli Hollein, and Michael Hausenblas. – Feichtner lives and works in Linz; since October 2009, he has held a design chair at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule (Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design) in Kiel.
Birkhauser / Paperback / 263 pages / May 2010 / Code 71720 / ISBN 978 3 03460 342 3
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The book presents Carl Mollino’s complete furniture and interior design for the first time and represents the most comprehensive record today of this part of Mollino’s production. Realized in collaboration with the Museo Casa Mollino and written by the museum’s curators Napoleone Ferrari and Fulvio Ferrari, this extensive and original monograph emphasizes the contemporary significance of Mollino’s groundbreaking oeuvre.
Code 71877 | Paperback | 240 pages | £24.95
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The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, this illustrated dictionary provides over 1500 definitions and explanations of ecodesign terms.
March 2010 | Code 68919 | Routledge | 294 pages | Hardback | £40.00
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