Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

There are books on the nuts and bolts of web design and there are books about website aesthetics, showcasing examples of good design.

This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators.

Furniture Design is a comprehensive guide and resource for students and furniture designers.

Knitwear is one of the most exciting areas in fashion today, where craft and digital processes collide to create desirable, innovative clothing.

Fashion jewellery is created with the catwalk and couture in mind, characterized by its creativity and originality.

A comprehensive, visually-led overview that covers all areas of fashion drawing, presentation, and illustration, Fashion Illustrator both teaches students how to draw the fashion figure and provides an extended showcase of established and emerging illustrators.

This book offers a thorough grounding in the principles of fashion design, describing the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer, examining the varied career opportunities available and giving a balanced inside view of the fashion business today.

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion designers to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics.

Featuring 30 new designs by leading designer-makers from around the world, DIY Furniture 2 builds on the international success of the previous title, showing you step-by-step how to make unique designer furniture.

Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch.

The Design Book brings together the best in contemporary design for the home, presenting a huge range of striking new products: tables and chairs, sofas and beds, storage, kitchens and bathrooms, tableware, textiles and surfaces, lighting, electronics and more.

Computer-aided design (CAD) and rapid prototyping (RP) are now a fundamental part of the professional practice of product design and are therefore essential skills for product design undergraduate students.

The skull is one of the most recognizable symbols of today s contemporary visual culture.

When Tony Viramontes' work appeared in the late 1970s, his hard and direct style of drawing was a marked contrast to the prevailing soft-pastel school of fashion illustration.

Advanced Fashion Drawing is a practical book showing not only how to draw the figure but also how to illustrate it in today s fashion and lifestyle market.

The A Z of Visual Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration and visual techniques that have been used throughout design history.

This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios.

Digital Textile Design, Second Edition covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally.

Focusing on how graphic designers tackle the ordering of number-heavy information, this book shows how the best design minds around grapple with timetables, annual reports and other data-rich documents.

The DIY Couture collection is 10 stylish, easy to make pieces of clothing that can be endlessly reinvented in different fabrics, textures and colours.

TM offers graphic designers and those interested in the history of design and branding a uniquely detailed look at a select group of the very best visual identities.

This book shows those embarking on an illustration or graphic design career how best to put together an effective, professional portfolio.

Colour is a powerful selling tool.

Color is a powerful selling tool.

A practical guide to the dynamic revival of contemporary knitting, Knitwear Design is also a source of inspiration and advice on the latest techniques and practices.

Draping the art of using calico to create womenswear directly on a mannequin is an essential skill for fashion designers.

Designed for both students and professionals, Pattern Cutting for Menswear offers a comprehensive guide to pattern cutting from the basic skills through to advanced techniques.

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.

The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc.

Featuring 75 of the world's most legendary designers, this book presents the story of fashion through the fascinating personal lives and innovative collections that have shaped the field over the past century.

Knit is an exciting and dynamic design area, with new technologies opening up a wealth of creative possibilities for designers, as well as innovative uses of traditional techniques.

Denim Dudes is a street style book with a difference.

The Sustainable Design Book updates the reader on the latest products and developments in the field of green design, and features 265 of the most exciting new products around.

The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design is a compendium of 13 experimental projects designed to teach conceptual thinking and problem solving to art and design students.

This book features 14 original projects that will inspire you to create your own digitally printed textile designs.

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession.

This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change.

Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer.

We are on the cusp of a revolution, where the intersection of technology, the human body and everyday objects will become completely seamless.

How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications.

This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design.

Logotype is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms and other text-based corporate marks.

Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature.

There are many ways in which a product can be manufactured but most designers know only a handful of techniques.

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity.

This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen.

Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design.

Classic workwear, sports and military clothingCurated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, the Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work.

Designing a final degree collection is a fashion student s first chance to approach the reality of the industry.

Drawing Fashion Accessories is a practical guide to illustrating footwear, millinery, bags and purses, cosmetic products and jewellery, offering a unique resource for students and professional fashion illustrators alike.