Exploiting Chaos (Paperback)
   Author: Jeremy Gutsche

Chaos (kā,s) is the uncertainty sparked by uncharted territory, economic recession, and bubbles of opportunity.
Chaos causes organizations to retreat . . . but not always.

Disney, CNN, MTV, Hyatt, Burger King, FedEx, Microsoft, Apple, Gillette, AT&T, Texas Instruments, 20th Century Fox, IBM, Merck, Hersheys, IHOP, Eli Lilly, Coors, Bristol-Myers, Sun, Amgen, The Jim Henson Company, LexisNexis, Autodesk, Adobe, Symantec, Electronic Arts, Fortune, GE, and Hewlett-Packard.

These iconic companies were all founded during periods of economic recession. Dramatic change and simple evolution give birth to a new set of market needs. Identify those needs and enjoy remarkable success.

This book is about powerful ideas and vivid stories that will help you stimulate creativity, identify opportunity, and ultimately, Exploit Chaos.

The Exploiting Chaos Framework
IN TIMES OF CHAOS, the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game are changed. To thrive, companies must learn not to create structure and stability, but rather, to adapt quickly.

Exploiting Chaos suggests that the next wave of management theory will be the science of adaptation. Accordingly, this book approaches adaptation using four equally important tactics: Culture of Revolution, Trend Hunting, Adaptive Innovation, and Infectious Messaging.

Culture of Revolution
Culture is more important than strategy. Culture underlies your organizations ability to adapt, and times of dramatic change magnify this importance. Most likely, your organization perceives the need to adapt, but uncertainty and resistance are paralyzing innovation. By creating an organizational culture of revolution, you can spark a new paradigm for creative change.

Trend Hunting
Innovation and strategic advantage hinge on your ability to anticipate trends and identify the next big thing. By using the cutting-edge framework in this book, you can filter through chaos and identify clusters of opportunity to focus your innovation.

Adaptive Innovation
Engineers, designers, and scientists have invested billions of dollars to perfect human creativity. By applying the best of their proven practices to your own field, you can think big while acting small. You can rapidly identify and evaluate new opportunities.

Infectious Messaging
The Internet has created a world cluttered with chaos, but it has also created the worlds first viral platform for ideas. Well-packaged stories travel faster than ever before. Unfortunately, most marketers are stuck in a world dominated by traditional advertising and clich. By cultivating infection, your ideas will resonate, helping you to leapfrog ahead of the competition.

Modern Sustainable Residential Design
A Guide for Design Professionals
Author: William J. Carpenter  
The world of residential building is poised to do great things. The guidance, information, materials and technology, while ever-evolving, are in place. Now it's the hearts and minds that must follow. Modern Sustainable Residential Design is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that can help. So let's get started.

"This book offers lessons for architects and interior designers who want to conceptualize and implement sustainable design strategies in Modern residential design. Recognised residential architect and educator William J. Carpenter offers solutions for incorporating sustainable aspect into a home design from conceptualization to implementation. Examples feature some of the best Modern sustainable residential projects from the U.S. and abroad" Allison Arieff, "New York Times" 'By Design' columnist

Residential Interior Design: A Guide to Planning Spaces
Authors: Maureen Mitton, Courtney Nystuen
A Room-by-room guide to home interior design
More than a decorating guide, Residential Interior Design teaches the fundamental skills needed to plan interior spaces for all types of homes, in all decorative styles, from remodeling to new construction. Taking a step-by-step approach, this valuable primer reviews all aspects of interior architecture as it relates to human factors and daily use.

Authors and interior designers Maureen Mitton and Courtney Nystuen explore the minimal amount of space necessary in order for rooms to function usefully, from the kitchen to the bathroom, the bedroom to the hallway, and every room in between. Packed with hundreds of drawings and photographs, this valuable tool is brimming with useful information regarding codes, mechanical and electrical systems, the Americans with Disabilities Act, accessibility codes, special considerations for multi-family dwellings, and a variety of additional factors that impact each type of room and its corresponding space.

With a focus on quality of design over quantity of space, Residential Interior Design is the first stop to designing equally efficient and attractive rooms.

The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting
Authors: Williams, Theo Stephan (Author)
A guide to establishing prices and budgets that make their clients happy and their business profitable.

Perspective for Interior Designers (Paperback)
Author: John Pile
This popular handbook shows students and professionals how to draw accurate interior perspectives using an easy-to-learn method. Every technique is covered, from one-point and two-point perspective to camera and computer-aided drawing.

Title of the Book: Tokyo Style
Author of the Book: Angelika Taschen
Photos: Reto Guntli
Note: A great picture book for inspiration and a  broader knowledge of world styles

Title of the Book: Contemporary Wood Houses
Note: The projects in Contemporary Wood Houses feature a wide range of different uses of wood in home construction. Each of the projects is clearly explained by the designers themselves. All of the examples share the highest degree of architectural quality due to innovative uses of wood as well as the architects' outspoken bid for environmentally sustainable construction. Included in this volume are sophisticated residences, contemporary homes and small but remarkable wood cabins.

Title of the Book: Home Extension Design
Author of the Book: Julien Owen
Note: If you are thinking of improving your home but want the real story of how to be successful, this richly illustrated and completely up-to-date book is for you. It distils all the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality, highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales, Home Extension Design demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design, sustainability, budgeting, planning, regulations and the use of building contracts. The comprehensive guidance includes chapters on making the best of what you've got, designing the changes to your home, types of house alteration projects (including extensions, loft conversions and basements), submitting applications to the local authority, and getting the building work done.

Title of the Book: Classic Living
Author of the Book: Wim Pauwels
Note: This title deals with classic living in all its guises: from a restored, intimate farmhouse to a stately home, from a distinctive country estate to a timeless apartment. Compendium: Classic Living offers an unending source of inspiration for the design and furnishing of classic interiors and provides ideas from the prominent interior design experts of fifteen stunning projects.

Title of the Book: Green Designed: Kitchen & Dining
Author of the Book: Bianca Maria Oller
Green designed: Kitchen & Dining presents 40 high-quality products from the realm of kitchen design that have earned the designation of "environmentally friendly" while simultaneously reflecting the latest style trends. In an age when ecological awareness has become commonplace, it's only logical to also plan and
furnish the kitchen with these aspects in mind. The kitchen has long been the heart of a home, providing space for more than just cooking.

Title of the Book: NBS Domestic Specification
Author of the Book: NBS
Note: Using the NBS Domestic Specification - a very accurate written description of the products and materials to be used in a building or extending a house - will improve quality, save time, reduce uncertainty and help to avoid disputes. A concise, comprehensive and user-friendly tool for writing specifications for use on small domestic projects, this new edition has been updated and redesigned to make it even easier to use.
For the first time referring to building standards and regulations in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as English and Welsh ones, the completed document is immensely useful.

Title of the Book:The Worlds Coolest  Hotel Rooms
Author of the Book: Bill Tikos
Note: Colourful images full of inspiration

Title of the Book:Interior Design (Portfolio Series)
Author of the Book: Jenny Gibbs
Note: Good reference book for students in particular

Title of the Book: Old & New
Author of the Book:  Katherine Sorrell
Note: A mix of old and new pieces can create a living room that is both elegant and eclectic

Title of the Book: 1000 Home Ideas
Author of the Book:  Stafford Cliff
Note: Clear and colourful illustrations

Title of the Book: Pattern
Author of the Book: Tricia Guild
Note: Tricia's  use of colour and pattern is truly inspirational

Title of the Book: Interior Architecture Now
Author of the Book: Jennifer Hudson
Note: A great insight for budding Interior Architects into the world of Interior Architecture and current styles and trends in commercial design.

Title of the Book: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Author of the Book: Jean-Louis Cohen
Printed by: Birkhäuser Hardback
ISBN: 10: 376437960X and 13: 978-3764379605
For anyone who loves 20th century architecture and especially van der Rohe’s contribution and influence during the 1920s and 1930s this book offers a thorough retrospective look at his work.

Title of the Book: Salvage style in your home
Author of the Book: Moria & Nicholas Hankinson
Printed by:
ISBN: 10: 0875969321 and 13: 978-0875969329
A great reference tool for using salvaged materials / items to create beauty through recycling and reclaim in your home.

Title of the Book: Human Dimension and Interior Space
Author of the Book: Julius Panero, Martin Zelnick
Printed by:
ISBN: 10: 0823072711 and 13: 978-0823072712
Review: This is one of my books that I cannot live without and is a must buy for both residential and commercial interior designers. A factual guide of the human body, working distances and suggested dimensions. A great reference manual with informative diagrams, images both metric and imperial.

Title of the Book: Influential Interiors
Author of the Book: Suzanne Trocme
Printed by: Mitchell Beazley 
ISBN:
Spanning the 20th century, this inspirational book looks over the most influential interior designers and their signature styles; modern, organic, opulent etc.

Title of the Book: Construction Drawings, Details for Interiors, Basic Skills
Author of the Book: W. O. Kilmer Rosemary Kilmer
Printed by:
ISBN: 10: 0471109533 and 13: 978-0471109532
For American students this is a good reference guide for the NCIDQ exam. Full of drafting fundamentals and examples of technical drawings, plans and schedules.

Title of the Book: The Design Process
Author of the Book: Karl Aspelund
Printed by:
ISBN: 10: 1563674122 and 13: 978-1563674129a
This book is not interiors specific but is a very useful guide to the general design process and how to define and refine creative inspiration. It deals with every step from conception to production and details the different roles that a designer will undertake throughout the process. This includes a great step by step guide at the end of each chapter to work through the process yourself.