Form Design Best Practices - April 2024

Best Practices in Sustainable Building Design: Includes an interactive DVD

This unique book and DVD is an interactive learning environment composed of seven content areas: building form, envelopes, structures, climate control systems, renewable energy, lighting, and landscape design. Each of these content areas is subdivided into learning modules introducing the subject matter and investigates best practices for climate responsive and ecologically sustainable building design and construction. The DVD will help visualize and engage with concepts that may otherwise be too ambiguous or difficult to comprehend in a book format.

• ASIN: 1604270683
• ASIN: 1604270683
• ISBN: 1604270683
• Brand: J. Ross Publishing
• Manufacturer: J. Ross Publishing

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier... [Read More]

• ASIN: B016DHQSM2
• ASIN: B016DHQSM2
• Brand: Wiley
• Manufacturer: Wiley

100 Write-and-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages: Engaging Reproducible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, Write, and Really LEARN the Top 100 High-Frequency Words That are Key to Reading Success

Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words—the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know these high-frequency words! These fun, ready-to-go practice pages let kids trace, copy, manipulate, cut and paste, and write each sight word on their own. Features words from the Dolch Word List, a commonly recognized core of sight words. Also includes games and extension activities. For use with Grades K-2.

• ASIN: 0439365627
• UPC: 078073365623
• ASIN: 0439365627
• ISBN: 0439365627
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Teaching Resources

Modern Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Pointed Pen and Brush Pen Lettering

Ever wanted to learn modern calligraphy lettering but didn't know where to begin? "Modern Calligraphy: A beginner's guide to pointed pen and brush pen lettering" includes everything you need to started. This book will cover many of the tools and basics needed to learn pointed pen calligraphy and brush lettering as well as instructions on how to create your own distinct styles. This spiral bound book provides 109 pages of lettering tips and guides. The lay flat feature will allow you to get endless practice to master lettering. Not only will you get multiple ways to trace each letter, this bo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0998906204
• ASIN: 0998906204
• ISBN: 0998906204

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention is an instructional figure drawing book geared towards the novice and experienced artist alike. This book emphasizes a simplified understanding of surface anatomy, in order to clarify the mechanics of the figure, facilitate invention, and ultimately create a skill-set that can be successfully applied to other media. In addition, this book focuses very strongly on practical usage, making sure the artist is able to assimilate the steps presented here into a cohesive working process. (Fourth printing, September 2011)

• ASIN: 0615272819
• ASIN: 0615272819
• ISBN: 0615272819
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: M. Hampton

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

New York Times Bestseller  “I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers Over 100 exceptional and influential women describe how they embraced their creative spirit, overcame adversity, and sparked a global movement of entrepreneurship. Media titans and ceramicists, hoteliers and tattoo artists, comedians and architects—taken together, these profiles paint a beautiful picture of what happens when w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01BEGV5DY
• ASIN: B01BEGV5DY
• Brand: Artisan
• Manufacturer: Artisan

Lettering and Modern Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide: Learn Hand Lettering and Brush Lettering

Learn to letter! Learn to letter and create beautiful designs with this beginner's guide and workbook! Every page is filled with tips, tricks encouragement and practice space to kickstart your lettering journey! Learn 5 different alphabet styles, upper and lower case letters, practice connections and dive into design and composition with this beautiful lettering book. At the end of this book, there are also 15 beautiful lettering projects to help you bring together your knowledge and skill and help you begin to create beautiful works of art! You can do this!! Let us teach you how to upgrade yo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1948209004
• ASIN: 1948209004
• ISBN: 1948209004
• Brand: Paper Peony Press
• Manufacturer: Paper Peony Press

The Non-Designer's Design Book (Non Designer's Design Book)

For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and light-hearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fourth edition, The Non-Designer’s Design Book offers even more practical design advice, including a new chapter on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train your Designer Eye, updated projects for you to try, and new visu... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PWDFWEE
• ASIN: B00PWDFWEE
• Manufacturer: Peachpit Press

How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way

One of the first and still one of the best, Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way has been the primary resource for any and all who want to master the art of illustrating comic books and graphic novels.Stan Lee, the Mighty Man from Marvel, and John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind the Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, the Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671530771
• ASIN: 0671530771
• ISBN: 0671530771
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Complete Book of Chalk Lettering: Create and Develop Your Own Style

Ubiquitous at boutiques and cafés, on Etsy and Pinterest, in stationery and home decor, the art of chalk lettering is hotter than ever. Valerie McKeehan, an Etsy standout whose work has been featured in magazines and websites from Good Housekeeping to RealSimple.com, teaches us everything we need to know to create gorgeous hand-drawn chalk designs. The book is also a practice space, with three foldout “chalkboards”—the inside cover and foldout back cover are lined with blackboard paper. In over 60 lessons, learn the ABCs of lettering (literally) and basic styles: serif, sans serif, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00U0OBRCQ
• ASIN: B00U0OBRCQ
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations (Neal, Effective Phrases for Peformance Appraisals)

This powerful and time proven guide contains more than 3,800 professionally written phrases for describing the key performance factors found on most evaluation forms. With this practical guide, you can accurately and quickly complete the comments, examples, and overall appraisal sections. The book has attracted global users and is popular in the fields of business, education, government, law enforcement, medicine and the military.

• ASIN: 1882423135
• ASIN: 1882423135
• ISBN: 1882423135
• Manufacturer: Neal Publications

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

• ASIN: 0195019199
• ASIN: 0195019199
• ISBN: 0195019199
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Working Effectively with Legacy Code: WORK EFFECT LEG CODE _p1 (Robert C. Martin Series)

• ASIN: B005OYHF0A
• ASIN: B005OYHF0A
• Manufacturer: Prentice Hall

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand them... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451493249
• ASIN: 0451493249
• ISBN: 9780451493248
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox: Checklists and Best Practices to Manage Your Workflow

Get organized and streamline your workflow with this A-Z accountability system.   Design is only part of an interior designer’s job—you’re also responsible for scheduling client meetings, conducting design surveys, creating drawings and specs, and overseeing installation. Multiply by the number of projects on your plate, and you have a recipe for overwhelming disorganization. The Interior Design Productivity Toolbox helps you juggle multiple projects with ease, with a comprehensive self-management system tailored to the needs of interior designers and decorators. Features include: D... [Read More]

• ASIN: 111868043X
• ASIN: 111868043X
• ISBN: 111868043X
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Even Faster Web Sites : Performance Best Practices for Web Developers

As an important follow-up to O'Reilly's bestselling "High Performance Web Sites," this second edition offers additional rules for speeding up Web page loading and

• UPC: 10898275
• Rating: 5.0

Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices - eBook

This book is a practical guide packed with clear examples that will help you get to grips with the best practices in Laravel design patterns to create advanced web applications. This book is intended for

• UPC: 270926006

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - eBook

This book is an easy-to-follow guide with a hands-on approach that will help you learn the best practices for designing attractive and highly interactive courses with the help of Moodle. This book can be used

• UPC: 232849936

Agile Architektur mit .NET - Grundlagen und Best Practices - eBook

Agile Vorgehensmodelle sind aus der modernen Softwareentwicklung nicht mehr wegzudenken. Kurze Entwicklungszyklen und sich stetig ändernde Anforderungen stellen insbesondere für Softwarearchitekten eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Big Upfront Design war gestern. Die Architektur des Systems muss

• UPC: 321585229

IT Technical best practices: How to Reduce Agile cycle time with reusable code? - eBook

In many Agile transformation sessions the Agile practitioners or savvy’s discuss more on the process related activities rather than elaborating on the technical or software engineering process steps to reduce the cycle time. At the

• UPC: 225671033

vSphere Design Best Practices - eBook

An easy-to-follow guide full of handson examples of real-world design best practices. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details on the concepts used. If you

• UPC: 197845302

Kiln-Formed Glass: Beyond the Basics : Best Studio Practices *techniques *projects

Introduces advanced techniques and practices in kiln-forming glass, including airbrushing, marbling, mold making, and sandblast carving, and provides information on tools and

• UPC: 23464715

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best

• UPC: 53680931

Managing Corporate Design : Best Practices for In-House Graphic Design Departments

9781621534594

• UPC: 42079296

BPM Business Process Management Best Practices Design, Streamline and Manage Guide - Lead with business processes that coordinate people, applications and services - eBook

Business process management is a clear-cut way to analyze an organizations' business processes. The purpose of BPM is to make processes within the business more flexible, efficient and most importantly effective. Basically, it is a

• UPC: 675198591