Watercolor Sunset Dot Matrix Notebook
Title | Watercolor Sunset Dot Matrix Notebook PDF eBook |
Author | Inc. (CRT) Peter Pauper Press |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781441328809 |
Larger dot journal is perfect for creative visual planning, bullet journaling, sketching, designing, writing, and much more! 192 pages provide plenty of space for journaling purposes. Dot matrix pattern throughout the interior. Premium smooth-finish archival/acid-free paper supports pens, pencils, and other media. Tuck notes, business cards, mementos, and more in the back cover pocket. Elastic band attached to the back cover keeps your place or keeps your journal closed. Satin ribbon bookmark included. Cover design features a palette of beautiful sorbet-colored hues reminiscent of a tropical sunset. ''Create the life you love'' is stamped in gold foil script. Complementary interior endpapers. Journal is A5 size (5-3/4'' x 8-1/4'').
Installations by Architects
Title | Installations by Architects PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Bonnemaison |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2009-08-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781568988504 |
Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. Like architecture, many of these temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers' experience of the environment. An installation is usually the end product for an artist, but for architects it can also be a preliminary step in an ongoing design process. Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives. The first survey of its kind, Installations by Architects features fifty of the most significant projects from the last twenty-five years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Projects are grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Each project is supplemented by interviews with the project architects and the discussions of critics and theorists situated within a larger intellectual context. There is no doubt that installations will continue to play a critical role in the practice of architecture. Installations by Architects aims to contribute to the role of installations in sharpening our understanding of the built environment.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Title | Good Strategy Bad Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rumelt |
Publisher | Currency |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0307886239 |
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.