BRILLIANT!

Title Brilliant! Author Bob Johnstone Publisher Prometheus Books Description Part biography, part history, and part prediction based on extrapolation from contemporary trends, Brilliant! draws on extensive interviews conducted over many years with key industry players, innovators, and the prime mover himself, Shuji Nakamura. It traces Nakamura’s humble origins in rural Japan, the path that led to his breakthroughs,…

Colouring Clay

Title Colouring Clay Author Jo Connell Publisher A & C Black Publishers Limited Description  Coloring Clay explains the principal techniques for working with colored clay. This detailed, practical handbook takes artists though the clay and stain selection process to forming and firing, outlining proven procedures that produce optimum results. Readers will learn to use coiling and handbuilding for…

100 Ways to Create A Great Ad

Title 100 Ways to Create A Great Ad Author Tim Collins Publisher Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Description  From metaphors and mash-ups to killer facts, this book offers an overview of a hundred tried-and-tested approaches used by advertising creatives. Some are rhetorical devices that have been around for thousand years, some are visual techniques inherited from art, others have…

David Report: Design+Culture

Title David Report: DESIGN+CULTURE Description The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. Four issues a year. A return to cultural fundamentals is essential if we are to reengage our tribal past to…

David Report: The Sustainable Wheel

Title David Report: The Sustainable Wheel Issue 7/December 2007 Description The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. Four issues a year. We don’t have answers, we have questions. We do, however, know…

David Report: A Checklist for Sustainability

Title David Report: A Checklist for Sustainability Description The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. It’s important to always have an holistic approach to sustainability. Otherwise it won’t answer its purpose. The…

David Report: Welcome To The Credibility Loop

Title David Report: Welcome To The Credibility Loop Issue 4/June 2006 Description Today we all know that we have to develop, innovate and find new ways to survive – either it’s business, personal or environmental concerns. At David Report we take our responsibility and focus on a business dilemma – why advertise when you can do…

David Report: Communications Through Product

Title David Report: Communications Through Product Issue 5/November 2006 Description The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. Four issues a year. In six logical steps: Advertising has lost its credibility. Everybody are…

David Report: Future Luxury

Title David Report: Future Luxury Issue 6/March 2007 Description  The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. Four issues a year. Are the luxury savvy consumers willing to accept the new standards? Yes…

David Report: Vulgarism

Title David Report: Vulgarism Issue 7/June 2007 Description  The David Report bulletin covers the intersection of design, culture and business life with a creative and humanistic approach. By challenging conventional thinking we are always trying to make a difference. Four issues a year. At the David Report, we believe in long lasting values as one of…

Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Coconut

Title Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Coconut Author DTI Philippines Publisher Department of Domestic Trade Description  The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue on Coconut showcases variety of applications and manipulations applied to the different parts of the coconut tree which may be used as a raw material for furniture, gifts and houseware. The catalogue provides the names by which coconut…

Design and Form

Title Design and Form Author Johannes Itten Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Description  Design and Form is the most complete document of one of the land marks of modern education in art – the famous Basic Course at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Each of the over 200 illustrations reproduced here is described in detail to help…