Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“john gertsakis”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john gertsakis”
Skip side bar filters

  • Design + Environment

    A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods

    by Helen Lewis, John Gertsakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli, Andrew Sweatman ...
    There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimizing the environmental impacts of products. Design + Environment has been specifically written to address this paucity.The book first provides background information to help the reader understand how and why design for environment (DfE) has become so critical to design, with reference to some of ... Read more

    Was $45.99 USD Now $39.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Truth About the Drug Companies

    How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

    by Marcia Angell ...
    During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Design for 3D Printing

    Scanning, Creating, Editing, Remixing, and Making in Three Dimensions

    by Samuel N. Bernier, Bertier Luyt, Tatiana Reinhard ...
    France's Le FabShop has extensive experience testing 3D printers and creating digital models for them. From an articulated Makey Robot to a posable elephant model, Samuel N. Bernier and the rest of Le FabShop's team have created some of the most-printed designs in the 3D printing world. This book uses their work to teach you how to get professional results out of a desktop 3D printer without ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book

    Everything Industrial Designers Need to Know Every Day

    by Dan Cuffaro, Isaac Zaksenberg ...
    Series series Reference & Specification Book
    The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book is the first book to gather all the essential pieces of information industrial designers need on a daily basis in one concise handbook. It's a reference you'll turn to over and over again to efficiently create designs that work, last, and minimize unnecessary risk.To make designs that work and endure (and are also legal), designers need to know ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hardware Startup

    Building Your Product, Business, and Brand

    by Renee DiResta, Brady Forrest, Ryan Vinyard ...
    Thanks to the decreasing cost of prototyping, it's more feasible for professional makers and first-time entrepreneurs to launch a hardware startup. But exactly how do you go about it? This book provides the roadmap and best practices you need for turning a product idea into a full-fledged business.Written by three experts from the field, The Hardware Startup takes you from idea validation to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Maker's Manual

    A Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution

    by Paolo Aliverti, Andrea Maietta, Patrick Di Justo ...
    The Maker's Manual is a practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution. It features dozens of color images, techniques to transform your ideas into physical projects, and must-have skills like electronics prototyping, 3d printing, and programming. This book's clear, precise explanations will help you unleash your creativity, make successful projects, and work ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Design Languages

    by Stefano Caggiano ...
    Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there is no need to study grammar in order to speak effectively, so too can one learn to “speak” design ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People

    No Nonsence Manuals, #3

    by Mark Lynch ...
    Series Book 3 - No Nonsence Manuals
    Unleash the power of Computer Aided Design to deliver step-change improvements to all teams in your technical business - not just design. The focus is very much on results - bringing full 3D CAD engineering benefits enjoyed by larger firms, to small manufacturing businesses.Do you want to get the most out of your existing CAD package by doing what the best performing manufacturers and engineers do ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People

    No Nonsence Manuals, #2

    by Mark Lynch ...
    Series Book 2 - No Nonsence Manuals
    This book is aimed at those who wish to develop new or existing products and get them to market quickly. Ordinary practicing engineers are crying out for easy to apply engineering product development advice. How do you take the mystique out of it, keep it simple and ready to implement?The emphasis is on doing what the best performing companies do to maximise the chances of success. In addition, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Connected Products

    UX for the Consumer Internet of Things

    by Claire Rowland, Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Ann Light, Alfred Lui ...
    Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design.This book provides experienced UX designers and technologists with a clear and practical roadmap for ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Prototype to Product

    A Practical Guide for Getting to Market

    by Alan Cohen ...
    Product development is the magic that turns circuitry, software, and materials into a product, but moving efficiently from concept to manufactured product is a complex process with many potential pitfalls. This practical guide pulls back the curtain to reveal what happens—or should happen—when you take a product from prototype to production.For makers looking to go pro or product development team ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Design and the Question of History

    by Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart ...
    Series series Design, Histories, Futures
    Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this textdemands radically transformed ... Read more

    $30.99 USD