Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design.

With all they do for us, don’t purses deserve to have a little fun?

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2015* *Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014*Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear.

The truth about superpowers .

The Transition movement is more than an instrumental strategy to address climate change and fossil fuel shortage.

New York Times Bestseller!

While ideals of feminine beauty change all the time, the classic hourglass figure with a tiny waist has remained a constant and potent image of women's sexuality.

This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services.

The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide.

With step-by-step instructions, drawings to complete, and space to experiment, How to Draw Comics is for anyone interested in creating your own cartoon, graphic novel, or manga.

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

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2015* *Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014*Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear.

Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives.

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable.

Learn how to draw stylish looks with step-by-step guidance from a top New York designer and teacher.

After 20 years coping with psychosis, Matt Barrell has drawn on his experiences and perspectives to depict what he views as the "e;nightmare scenarios"e; of mental health.

Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice brings together a range of graphic design practices and approaches that include the use of socially responsible design and persuasion, as well as collaboration with other disciplines, to improve safety; framing theory and ideograms within architectural pedagogy to convey complex ideas and relationships; literary analysis to explore graphic design authorship, narrative and viewer experience; discursive dialogue and a non-linear presentation to interrogate and shed light on personal practice; and cartographic metaphors as a means of visualising and investigating the topography of graphic design.

'An interesting and important account.

One of the great cartoonists of our time.

Amanda's bold and inspiring use of colour and pattern gives stunning results that are deceptively easy to achieve.

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

With all they do for us, don’t purses deserve to have a little fun?

Artists do a number of things that are very useful.

Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.

This is a beautifully illustrated guide to lingerie, starting with theearly history of bras and girdles and progressing up to modern times.

Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives.

Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products.

Typography is the most effective tool that graphic designers use to express ideas and convey a message.

"e;She is the most wonderfully inventive and brilliantly talented designer"e; Dame Judi Dench on Clancy.

During the time of writing the book I wanted children to see how important it is to have a servants heart, also that there will be struggles we will encounter, but never give up and always follow the truth of your adventure.

Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.

New York Times Bestseller!

The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide.

The Transition movement is more than an instrumental strategy to address climate change and fossil fuel shortage.

Who could resist these loveable toys and their babies?

An exploration of the corset as a motif for textile artists, with practical tips and examples.

In 2007 Search Press launched the innovative Twenty to Make series.

Out of the 1920s Surrealist art studios emerged the exquisite corpse, a collaboratively drawn body made whole through a series of disjointed parts whose relevance today is the subject of Exquisite Corpse: Studio Art-Based Writing in the Academy.

Sustainable sewing projects don't have to be scratchy hemp skirts andbrown patchwork aprons - you could be making beautiful one-off piecesfor yourself and your home from unique and unusual eco-friendlyrecycled or vintage fabrics.