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Taking up Space: Exploring the Design Process
by Tiiu Poldma

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©2009, 304 pp., softcover, 8.5 x 11 (978-1-56367-628-4)

Book Category: Design Foundations
Meet the author: Tiiu Poldma

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Taking up Space: Exploring the Design Process focuses on the practice of interior design, providing an overview of what interior designers do and why, from their earliest research through to the completed built environment. It begins by presenting the design process in diagram form, and subsequent chapters break each component down so that one step builds upon the last. The engaging narrative introduces design methodologies and explores the different approaches designers take to solve design problems that meet the needs of the end-user.

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Instructor's Guide (PDF)

• CONTENTS

  • Introduction to Design Processes and Thinking
  • Design Methodologies
  • The Interior Design Project
  • Scenarios, Design Briefs, and Users
  • Contextualizing Interior Design Problems
  • Creative Genius in Design Problem Solving
  • Expressing and Refining Ideas: From 2D to 3D to Solutions
  • From Process to Reality
  • Design Sensibility, Aesthetics, Sustainability, and Ethics
  • From Product to Research

  
  
• FEATURES

• Real-life examples throughout the entire design process stimulate student learning
• Case studies in interior design and how interior design intersects with other disciplines—architecture, urban design, industrial design, and interactive design
• Examples of both 2D and 3D design layouts, including color, form, and materials
• Short exercises and in-class design projects for students to complete on their own related to concepts discussed in each chapter
• Series of design exercises through two or three chapters to build on one or more design projects
• Instructor’s Guide provides guidelines for using the text in interior design theory and design studio courses and practical applications with additional exercises