Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration

The beautifully illustrated new adventure from cherished friends and Sunday Times bestsellers BIG PANDA AND TINY DRAGON 'James has a way to speak to your soul.

The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes.

Using interdisciplinary research and critical analysis, this book examines experiences through (or with) kimonos in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition.

Volume two of the second edition of the comprehensive Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering illuminates the role of the manufacturing engineer as the key component of factory operation.

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

We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present.

The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television provides one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture.

Textiles and Fashion explores the integration of textile design with fashion.

How do you navigate a career as an entertainment designer while maintaining a sense of self-worth and value in the various off-ramps and sidestreets you may choose to take on the journey?

While social robots participation increases in everyday human life, their presence in diverse contexts and situations is expected.

The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence.

An otherworldly examination of the unknown that will keep fright fans reading all night.

Betrieblicher Umweltschutz ist in zahlreichen Unternehmen ein zentraler Bestandteil der Firmenpolitik.

First published in 1978, Artists and People examines the formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts.

Practical Guides in Chemical Engineering are a cluster of short texts that each provides a focused introductory view on a single subject.

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natural world.

Use simple stroke-by-stroke techniques to learn how to draw people, animals, the natural world, and everyday objects.

This book addresses aspects of human factors in engineering and provides a detailed discussion of novel approaches, systems engineering tools, artificial cognitive systems, and intelligent technologies and automation.

This new volume offers a variety of perspectives from investigators, industry professionals, stakeholders, and economic strategists that look at new ways of solving optimization problems related to different industrial sectors.

This book brings several original contributions to research and practical applications in the field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives respectively.

For artists of all ages, the ultimate full-color guide to drawing a variety of adorable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze Factory Studio, the leading anime school and studio.

Otl Aicher (1922–1991) war einer der herausragenden Vertreter des modernen Designs, er war Mitbegründer der legendären Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG).

This book presents the outcomes of recent endeavors that are expected to foster significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design, and product design, as well as overlapping areas.

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods.

This book will cover heuristic optimization techniques and applications in engineering problems.

A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.

Foreword by Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button.

Applicable to a wide spectrum of design activity, this book offers an ideal first step, clearly explaining fundamental concepts and methods to apply when designing for the user experience.

Menswear Trends will help you understand the relationship of menswear to society, enabling you to become both a forecaster and trend thinker and bring new ideas, innovation and strategies to men's fashion.

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this.

Applicable to a wide spectrum of design activity, this book offers an ideal first step, clearly explaining fundamental concepts and methods to apply when designing for the user experience.

Handbook on Augmenting Telehealth Services: Using Artificial Intelligence provides knowledge of AI-empowered telehealth systems for efficient healthcare services.

Now available in paperback, this best-selling title is THE essential guide to crochet.

Suppressed is the book the media would prefer you not read.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened.

In a fast-moving global industry, how can anyone know what the next trend will be?

Gory, prurient, and dangerous, this is the story of the most maligned comics in the history of the medium.

Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze.

Fully revised and updated, this new second edition of Knitwear provides an invaluable introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design.

During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked the Old West.

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence.

It's a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs) use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase further.

AI for Product Development explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in reshaping modern industries.

With the arrival of the 'Internet of Things' (IoT), smartphones, real-time payments systems, plus FinTech activity, Financial Inclusion services can now be integrated into a country's National Payment System (NPS), which means there should be no systemic barriers to transitioning the socio-economic pyramid, as actors build their financial status.

This second edition of Textile Conservation offers an up-to-date perspective on the role and practice of textile conservators, capturing the diversity of textile conservation work across the globe.