Taking up Space: Exploring the Design Process Now Available! This text takes the student through the earliest stage of conceptualization and research to the completed built environment, including different approaches designers take to solve design problems that ultimately satisfy their clients' needs.

Looking Beyond the Structure: Critical Thinking for Designers and Architects Publishing in November, 2009! This text examines the relationship between the built form and culture and serves as an introduction to thinking philosophically about design theory for students in interior design and architecture.

Research-Inspired Design: A Step-by-Step Guide for Interior Designers Publishing in November, 2009! This textbook/workbook teaches interior design students how to change their professional practice from a project-based activity to a knowledge-based activity, providing them with the tools and skills needed for the independent research analysis and critical thinking that will be expected of them on design projects.

Informing Design Now Available! Through contributed examples of studies that interior design students, instructors, and practitioners conducted to solve design problems, this book highlights the importance of designing by evidence rather than mere taste or opinion.

Programming and Research: Skills and Techniques for Interior Designers Now Available! This text offers a step-by-step approach to understanding the programming process. Learning activities and professional templates guide students through the creation or programming documents.

Evidence-Based Design for Interior Designers Now Available! Built upon the axiom that a design solution is only as good as the quality of its research, the text examines how designers conduct research into commercial and residential spaces.

Hand Drafting for Interior Design Now Available! This book teaches students how to create beautiful detailed interior design drawings to share with clients. Students will be shown by detailed examples how to render furniture, floors, walls, windows, plants, etc., in floor plans and elevations, using only drafting pencils, a T-square, and a triangle.

Hand Drawing for Designers: Communicating Ideas through Architectural Graphics Publishing in November, 2009! This text approaches the act of drawing as a communication tool that students will carry forth in the design firm and addresses why hand drawing is valued within design firms for conceptual design, design development, and client presentations.

Interior Design Illustrated Now Available! In an age of reliance on CAD programs, the skill to express a vision with a hand-rendered drawing gives an interior designer a distinct advantage in communicating with clients. This timely text helps students develop this powerful marketing tool.

Electronic Workflow for Interior Designers & Architects This text looks at the entire design process, demonstrating the best software and strategies for efficient, clear project development.

History of Interior Design Now Available! This text provides a comprehensive survey of architecture, interiors, furniture, and accessories from ancient civilizations through the twentieth century. While primarily focusing on Western civilizations, the book expands on traditional studies and includes design histories of African, Eastern, and Indigenous cultures.

History of Furniture: A Global View Publishing in April, 2009! This comprehensive text will cover the major historical movements in furniture design from prehistoric periods through contemporary, including those regions that traditional history books ignore or underserve such as Africa and China.

Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors, 3rd Edition Now Available! Expanding on the breadth and depth of the previous editions, the Third Edition boasts revised and updated materials including discussions on the environmental impact of textiles, nanotechnology, and the role of the interior designer in selecting textiles for residential and commercial interiors.

Fabric Science, 9th Edition Now Available!
With the increasing emphasis on textiles as a major global industry, Fabric Science, 9th Edition, continues the long tradition of meeting the needs of both students and professionals in the textile, fashion, and related industries. The best-selling introductory text is for students and professionals who need a solid understanding of basic textiles.

Fabric Science Swatch Kit, 9th Edition Now Available!
Designed to accompany the 9th Edition of Fabric Science, this Swatch Kit supplements the study of textiles for students in fashion design, merchandising, product development as well as home furnishings. Swatches represent the types of fabrics currently available in the textile industry and sold to apparel, home furnishings and industrial designers.

History of Furniture: A Global View Publishing in April, 2009! This comprehensive text will cover the major historical movements in furniture design from prehistoric periods through contemporary, including those regions that traditional history books ignore or under serve such as Africa and China.

Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer Now Available! This text teaches the fundamental information that interior designers need to know about the aesthetics as well as the construction of furniture.

Re-de-sign: New Directions for Your Career in Interior Design Now Available This book is a clear and concise survey of the field of interior design, providing a look at the newly expanded role of the interior designer and offering an array of career alternatives from the tried-and-true areas of residential and contract design to specialty design.

Interior Design Student's Comprehensive Exam Publishing in February, 2009 This text is designed for students to take the mystery out of the NCIDQ qualifying exam for interior design professionals. The activities contained in this workbook are intended to create experiences similar to those of taking the exam.