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Basics Design: Grids by Gavin Ambrose
Category: Design | Series: Basics Design
The seventh book in the award-winning "Basics Design" series, "Grids" focuses on the construction and ordering of the page and screen through the use of the grids. The grid features as a strong element in many areas of design, and presents both the student and practitioner alike with the opportunity to ...Show more
Basics Fashion Design 01 : Research and Design by Simon Seivewright
Category: Fashion | Series: Basics
Basics Fashion Design 09: Designing Accessories by John Lau
Category: Fashion | Series: Basics Fashion Design
Long since regarded as an inessential object that simply adds to the beauty, convenience or effectiveness of an outfit, accessories are now considered key items in a fashion collection and as stand-alone pieces worthy of our undivided attention. "Basics Fashion Design 09: Designing Accessories" is fille ...Show more
Basics Fashion Design: Construction by Anette Fischer
Category: Fiction | Series: Basics Fashion Design
"Basics Fashion Design: Construction" is the third book in this series. It leads the reader through the essential stages of creating a garment, from pattern cutting and draping a mannequin, to finishing and haberdashery. Construction is the foundation of fashion design; it takes passion and great skill ...Show more
Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection by Elinor Renfrew
Category: Fashion | Series: Basics Fashion Design
Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection guides the reader through the process of developing a collection, from initial research through to final presentation. Fashion collections vary depending on market level, product type, season, customer and retail outlets. This book teaches the process from ...Show more
Basics Fashion Design: Research and Design by Simon Seivewright
Category: Fiction | Series: Basics Fashion Design
"Basics Fashion: Research and Design" leads readers through the essential stages of fashion research--then explains how to translate that research into design ideas. How does the design brief affect the design process? What is the target market? Should designers set a theme, concept, or narrative for a ...Show more
Basics Fashion Design: Textiles and Fashion by Jenny Udale
Category: Fiction | Series: Basics Fashion Design
As a fashion designer you must have an understanding of fabrics and what their properties are. For example, how fabrics are constructed, what they are made from and how they perform. This knowledge allows you to choose the right fabric for your designs.It is also important to be aware of the various tec ...Show more
Basics Fashion Management 01: Fashion Merchandising by Virginia Grose
Category: Fashion | Series: Basics Fashion Management
Key points: this title contains a critical path/action calendar at the front of the book, which can be used as a blueprint for the fashion business. It includes case studies and interviews with key personnel as well as reflective exercises developed with reference to the professional nature of fashion r ...Show more
Basics Illustration 01 : Thinking Visually by Mark Wigan
Category: Design | Series: Basics Illustration
Features the work of more than one hundred international illustrators, educators and students demonstrating diverse visual languages, contexts, ideas, techniques and skills. Introduces fundamental techniques to inspire, inform and act as a useful resource. Explores the importance of ideas, research, dra ...Show more
Basics Illustration 02 : Sequential Images by Mark Wigan
Category: Design | Series: Basics Illustration
"Basics Illustration: Sequential Images" is Mark Wigans third book in his essential series of handbooks on contemporary illustration. Following Thinking Visually and Text and Image, Wigan identifies sequential image-making as a rich area of original and innovative work, which is leading the resurgence i ...Show more
Basics Illustration 03 : Text and Image by Mark Wigan
Category: unmapped | Series: Basics Illustration
The second book in the successful "Basics Illustration" series looks to the history of illustration for inspiration from medieval manuscripts and hieroglyphics to the contemporary. It also examines the production of artefacts, for example artists books, graphic novels, posters, and handmade typography, ...Show more
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design: Creating Designs Users Really Love by Gavin Allanwood
Category: Graphic Design | Series: Basics Interactive Design
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactiv ...Show more