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3D Printing Design - Additive Manufacturing and the Materials Revolution by Francis Bitonti
Category: Interior Design | Series: Required Reading Range Ser.
To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or constructing for interiors, in your work or as part of a final project, 3D Printing design is an encouraging ...Show more
DESIGN MANAGEMENT - MANAGING DESIGN STRA by BEST KATHRYN
Category: Design | Series: Required Reading Range
This book leads the reader through the strategy, process and implementation of design management via an exploration of the required skills, theory and practice of each. It includes case studies and interviews from leading professionals and corporations that have been carefully selected to demonstrate th ...Show more
Fashion Design : The Complete Guide by John Hopkins
Category: Fashion | Series: Required Reading Range
Through a series of critical and informative chapters covering historical and contemporary theory, this title explores the multi-faceted nature of fashion design and its associated contexts, processes and methodologies. It takes a practical look at advanced approaches to fashion drawing.
Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques by Connie Amaden-Crawford
Category: Craft | Series: Required Reading Range
Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide range of design variations for collars, pockets and sleeves. The detailed step-by-step instructions are eas ...Show more
Fashion Thinking by Dieffenbacher Fiona
Category: Fashion | Series: Required Reading Range
The thinking behind a fashion collection is what sets one designer apart from another. Learning to push ideas forward, to develop concepts and to challenge the status quo is what gives us some of fashion's greatest innovations. Yet students often struggle to develop their own style and approach to desig ...Show more
Fashion and Textile Design with Photoshop and Illustrator: Professional Creative Practice by Robert Hume; Colette Meacher (Associate Editor)
Category: Fashion | Series: Required Reading Range Ser.
Fashion and Textile Design with Photoshop and Illustrator is a step-by-step guide to two essential tools for textile and fashion designers. Adobe Photoshop (R) and Illustrator (R) have eclipsed many specialist textile and fashion systems due to their intuitive design, versatile function, and constant ev ...Show more
Good An Introduction To Ethics In Graphic Design by Lucienne Roberts
Category: Design | Series: Required Reading Range
Is it possible to be a bad good designer or a good bad designer for that matter? If the answer is yes then which is preferable and what does this reveal about the relationship between ethics and design practice? This book seeks to answer these questions.
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability - Creating Positive Change Through Design by Joshua Zeunert
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Required Reading Range
Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potent ...Show more
Menswear Trends by Aki Choklat (College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Category: Fashion | Series: Required Reading Range
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. With designer and educator Aki Choklat you'll learn how menswear trends fit within the larger co ...Show more
More Than a Name: An Introduction to Branding by Melissa Davis
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Required Reading Range
This book explores the new world of the brand - now more powerful and prominent than ever. It argues that a brand is far more than just a logo, discussing the larger creative and economic process of branding as well as the psychological theory behind impactful and successful brands. The text is supporte ...Show more
Patternmaking for Jacket and Coat Design by Pamela Vanderlinde
Category: Fashion | Series: Required Reading Range Ser.
Jacket design gives students and designers alike trouble, both technically and creatively; the technicality of their design and existing texts on the subject often leave novices and budding designers puzzled. Patternmaking for Jacket and Coat Design covers patternmaking techniques for seven iconic jacke ...Show more
Production Design for Screen - Visual Storytelling in Film and Television by Jane Barnwell
Category: Film | Series: Required Reading Range
Packed with colour film stills, exclusive pre-production artwork and behind-the-scenes production images, this landmark book celebrates the production designer's contribution to visual storytelling on screen. It illuminates the visual concepts behind familiar screen spaces and unpicks how and why they a ...Show more