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This is an exciting time for interior design programs and for those educators who are improving upon traditional curriculum standards with the kind of innovative and pragmatic approaches that reflect the increasingly dynamic role interior designers play in the world. Fairchild Books promises to keep pace with these remarkable developments by producing comprehensive works with deep, critical perspectives that challenge your students to be not only successful future designers but essential contributors in the design revolutions to come.
Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects
Ralph Caplan
Design is inescapably part of our lives—from the alarm clocks we wake up to and the cups we use for our morning coffee, to the chairs we sit in, the cars we drive, and the houses and cities we live in. In 63 engaging essays (previously published in The New York Times, I.D., Print, and Interior Design), Ralph Caplan provides sharp, thoughtful, charming and challenging commentary on design as we live it.
Textiles Unraveled
Formatted for PCs, this interactive CD-ROM is designed as an educational tool for courses with or without laboratory access. Contents include over 800 detailed digital photos consisting of: fibers (cross-sectional views and fiber burning videos), yarns, woven fabrics, knit fabrics, film structures, fiberweb structures, composite/multiplex fabrics, finishes, and dyeing/printing. CD-ROM also includes detailed descriptions and review questions.
The Interior Design Swatch Kit
Designed to correspond directly to Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors, the Interior Design Swatch Kit is a hands-on textbook supplement to use in teaching textiles for interiors. The commercial/residential swatches represent all segments of the interior design industry.
- 3-D Studio Max
- Building Systems
- Careers in Interior Design
- Color
- Computer Aided Design
- Design Foundations
- Drafting
- Drawing and Presentation
- Furniture Design
- Furniture Marketing
- Global Context for Design
- History of Furniture
- History of Interior Design
- Introduction to Interior Design
- Lighting
- Materials
- Model Making
- Professional Practices for Interior Design
- Programming
- Reference
- Research Methods
- Residential Design
- Space Planning
- Special Topics
- Sustainable Design
- Textiles
- Visual Merchandising