Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice.

With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today.

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.

Some of the best current research on realistic rendering is included in this volume.

The principle of personalisation appears in a range of current debates among design professionals, healthcare providers and educationalists about the implications of new technologies and approaches to consumer sovereignty for 'mass' provision.

Designed for both students and professionals, this book offers a comprehensive guide to patternmaking for menswear from the basic skills through to more advanced techniques.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.

Focusing on techniques developed to evaluate the forming behaviour of tailor welded blanks (TWBs) in sheet metal manufacturing, this edited collection details compensation methods suited to mitigating the effects of springback.

This book combines and summarizes the myriad rules, regulations, guidance, and guidelines that pertain to the human factor element of vessel design and marine operations.

Textiles and Their Use in Microbial Protection: Focus on COVID-19 and Other Viruses provides readers with vital information about disinfection mechanisms used in textile applications in the fight against dangerous microbes and viruses.

An essential resource to navigate a fast-changing and challenging world, this book presents core concepts and practical insights for enterprise risk management, business continuity management, and organizational resilience.

First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work.

This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives.

Orientalism is a central factor within the fashion system, both subtle and overt.

Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him.

This book covers the problem of fidelity in the design of virtual environments with specific reference to the design of vehicle simulators.

Packaging Sustainability Take the lead with sustainable package design solutions The classic role of packaging is to Protect, Inform, and Sell.

This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of their careers plus a group interview with the designer and lighting team of the hit musical Billy Elliot.

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums.

This book is concerned with emergence, interaction, art and computing.

The book of the UK's No.

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things.

In today's industrial and complex world, the progress of change is incredible.

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable technique for improving creativity in product design.

Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects.

The book proposes a new Cultural Realism and Virtualism design model for cultural and creative products based on Laozi's philosophy and analysis of symbolism, metaphysics, three-layered culture, reverse-triangular cultural space and Zen aesthetics.

Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.

Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed.

This book examines the dominance and significance of lean organizing in the international economy.

'Better Things is an indispensable source for any CMF designer.

In American Fashion is the first scholarly analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American fashion and creative industries between 1941 and 2014.

The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes.

Screen Style celebrates the beautiful, stylish and often covetable outfits and costumes featured in 50 iconic and diverse series of the small screen: from Mad Men to Call My Agent, Bridgerton to Empire.

The Soldier's Foot and the Military Shoe is a fascinating and informative treatise on the importance of footwear for soldiers and military personnel, with chapters on preventing and treating related injuries, foot anatomy, characteristics required for a military boot, caring for and maintaining the foot in war conditions, and much more.

Fabric for the Designed Interior, Second Edition, is a comprehensive text for students and professionals, addressing both residential and commercial interiors.

A tribute to Japan's "e;god of manga"e; by his longtime American friend and translator.

Textiles and Fashion explores the integration oftextile design with fashion, showing the manyways designers use fibre, fabric construction andsurface treatments within a garment and on thebody.

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.

Cath Kidston - queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces - grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.

Over the years, the companies have deployed an arsenal of schemes in an attempt to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing ideas, poaching employees, planting spies, ripping off characters or launching price wars.

Drawing from a rich body of archival documents, case studies and interviews, this book explores the ways in which graphic designers in China sought to establish graphic design as a profession and discipline from the 1980s to the present day.

It's often thought that restyling your space comes with a hefty price tag and unavoidable waste.

Explore and expand your creative skill set with The Central Saint Martins Guide to Art & Design, fully updated in 2023 in line with the current course, with a new afterword by Rathna Ramanathan, Head of Central Saint Martins.

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GREAT FICTION AND FOODPairing approximately 50 charming photographic re-creations of meals from classic and contemporary literatureall prepared, styled, and shot by the authorwith relevant excerpts, Fictitious Dishes is aninnovative gift bookfor literature lovers, foodies, as well as design and book junkies.

This book proposes new design and development models for local cultural and creative products, intended to improve the quality of these products and to preserve or enhance their local economic benefits.

Formen und Strukturen werden als grundlegende Gestaltungsrelationen, insbesondere in Architektur und Produktdesign, untersucht.

This book covers user experience methods and tools in designing user friendly products and servicesby encompassing widely utilized successful methods, including elicitation, analysis and establishment of requirements, collaborative idea generation with design teams and intended users, prototype testing and evaluation of the user experience through empirical and non empirical means.