Bars aren't just for drinking anymore. Now they're the place to see and be seen. Designing the World's Best Bars showcases more than 100 innovative watering holes, with 250 full-color photos and commentary from the designers on lighting, decor, fixtures, high-tech visual effects, and unique floor treatments.

Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals Volume 2 continues the unique approach to designing a successful pediatric health care facility, which has made Bruce King Komiske one of the industry's most in-demand design and management consultants. Following the success of the first volume of Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals, this new publication is intended as an additional reference guide for teams of health care and design professionals, and parents, who engage in the exciting journey of creating a healing environment as they plan the construction or renovation of a children's hospital or pediatric unit. It also recognises the outstanding efforts of teams throughout the world for their contributions to health care and design. Chapters focus on hospital exterior design, lobbies, arts and gardens, the role of the community, the role of the parent in inpatient and specialized care areas, and project management.

There are few architectural projects more complex and alluring than resorts. Whatever their form (boutique, casino, golf, spa. thematic, urban, timeshare or residential), the world's best resorts manage to delight their guests, satisfy their owners, and

This book explores collaboration between architects artists and corporations in relation to selecting the most apporpriate art pieces for public spaces.

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.