Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

A visual goldmine for designers of original print, weave and embellishment, Sourcing Ideas for Textile Design will help you generate new ideas, develop them methodically and finally create beautifully designed textiles.

The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America.

'What a fabulous book - a must for any royal watcher!

How can we design better experiences?

Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers.

There are luxuries that most of us will never be able to afford in a lifetime, but just off the shores of the moneyed is a huge, fast growing, land of premium value which inspires people to get there, even if they need to stretch their budget to reach it.

Die Gestaltungsgrundlagen gehören zum Basiswissen für Berufsschüler/-innen und Studierende von künstlerischen und gestalterischen Fachrichtungen.

Featuring detailed analyses of clothing culture in 17th-century provincial Sussex, this original study draws on previously unexploited sources to create an intimate and nuanced portrait of people and their clothes.

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2024In the first book to examine the role played by textile manufacturing in the development of fashion in Italy, A New History of 'Made in Italy' investigates Italy's transition from a country of dressmakers, tailors and small-scale couturiers in the early post-Second World War period to a major producer of ready-to-wear fashion in the 1980s.

The essential guide to drawing manga figures.

A deep appreciation and a wild visual ride through the wonderland of Los Angeles-styleLos Angeles harbors its own canon of styles: Romantic Bohemian, Glamour, Skater and Surfer, Rocker, Chola-Style, Indie-Eclectic, and Casual Chic—each shaped by the unique mix of subcultures, climates, geography, history, and personalities that have coexisted in different pockets of the greater LA area.

For decades, outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business.

Elegant, timeless and stylish throughout, Nordic Christmas Crochet will show you how to create 11 stunning, Scandi-inspired decorations, from baubles and ornaments to bunting and wreaths.

The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age.

No matter what your background, The Everything Cartooning Book is the all-in-one reference to unlock your hidden potential and set you on the fast track toward a rewarding career in cartooning.

Shortlisted for the CSA Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2021
Listed as one of The Five Most Essential Books about Art and Fashion, ArtNews, 2023


Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art.

The book highlights mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties, and characterization of additive manufactured products in a single volume.

Launched in 2010 as a modest mobile photo-sharing application for Apple's iPhone that uploads images in a square format and add filters that mimic vintage photographs, Instagram has grown to become one of the most-used social media platforms, alongside Facebook and Twitter.

This reference text discusses fundamentals, classification, principles, applications of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes in a single volume.

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion.

Adéntrate en el mundo de la industria de la animación, la ilustración y los videojuegos para saber cómo se preparan y diseñan sus personajes.

Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining demand for the kimono.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future of autonomous road vehicles for professionals and students.

This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture.

The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Cultivating Professional Identity in Design is a nuanced, comprehensive companion for designers across disciplines honing their identities, self-perception, personal strengths, and essential attributes.

Creating an Amigurumi of one's own.

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as 'craft.

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Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths rethinks how to analyse, preserve, and adapt Architectural Heritage and its surroundings along unforeseen paths using a broad spectrum of advanced research and design tools.

Pseudolinear Functions and Optimization is the first book to focus exclusively on pseudolinear functions, a class of generalized convex functions.

 This book offers a unique and much-needed perspective on disability and accessibility in urban context in South Africa.

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged.

In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing.

'If there's one fashion book you should be buying this season it's this one.

This book contains the papers from the 2013 International Conference on Compressors and Their Systems, held from 9-10 September at City University London.

How do you start a design project?

It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'.

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised.

Complete PCB Design Using OrCAD Capture and PCB Editor, Second Edition, provides practical instruction on how to use the OrCAD design suite to design and manufacture printed circuit boards.

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The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'.

Advocating a user-centered approach to medical technology design, this book covers the essential processes and specific techniques necessary to produce safe, effective, usable, and appealing medical systems and products.

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.