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Material Matters: Paper: Creative Interpretations of Common MaterialsThe Material Matters series illustrates the power of materials to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point of reference or the medium of creation itself, they...
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Fashioning Value - Undressing OrnamentExploring the impact of the contemporary value-ornament on today's makersAlongside the literal form of ornament a contemporary form has emerged, which shares the ascribed characteristics of the literal ornament, but has an even more pervasive effect. This ornament, that takes the shape of (commercially)...
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Vivienne Westwood: 100 Days of Active ResistanceVivienne Westwood invites artistic responses posing Active Resistance to Propaganda"In 2010 Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans launched an online manifesto-installation titled 100 Days of Active Resistance. The website invited people to submit an artwork, slogan or photograph responding to Westwood's conception of "Active Resistance...
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Mario Valentino: A History of Fashion, Design and Art"One of the marvels of the fashion world." --Bernadine Morris, The New York TimesEstablished in 1952 in Naples (where its headquarters are still located), Mario Valentino is a leading brand in the leather sector and a legendary manufacturer of shoes, accessories and clothing. Its...
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Visual Merchandising and Display: Best Practices for Window Displays and Store DesignsThis comprehensive textbook constitutes an essential tool for students and professionals who want to work in the field of visual merchandising in retail, a discipline which combines the principles of marketing, creativity and design. It covers all aspects of the profession, from window display...
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Fashion Moulage Technique: A Step by Step Draping CourseDraping is a technique that involves working with fabric directly on the mannequin. This allows the designer to start out from an idea that can change as the design of the piece progresses. In this process, creative freedom plays a more important and less...
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New Signage Design: Connecting People & SpacesThis book is a selection of projects from across the world in which the graphic signage system stands out not only for its meticulous form but its unmistakable illustrative function. Public spaces where a large number of people need to find their way such...
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Colour in Fashion Illustration: Drawing and Painting TechniquesThis book is a practical manual intended specifically for anyone interested in delving into the technique of granting color to fashion figurine illustrations to give them more life and expressiveness. In a clear and educational way, Tiziana Paci, author of the well-known book Figure...
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Motion Graphics - 100 Design Projects You Can't MissMotion graphics -- a digital technique that combines the language of traditional graphic design with the creative visual language of film and animation -- has become a fast growing area within the practice of graphic design. With the function of storytelling, it evokes a...
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Fashion - The Ultimate History of Costume: From Prehistory to the Present DayFashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. It's fascinating development throughout different civilizations and periods of history is currently generating an impressive amount of interest, not only in the fashion world but also within the academic community and, as...
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Kimono and the Colors of Japan (New Printing Edition)This distinctive volume reveals a unique antique kimono collection through various delicate Japanese colors and their use in kimono. The Japanese sensibility is immediately apparent in the classification of the nine traditional color categories of red, green, pink, blue, brown, purple, yellow, black/white, and...
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Beautiful Book Designs: From the Middle Ages to the Mid 20th CenturyThe Book of Kells (said to be the most beautiful book in the world), Leicester Codex (the most expensive book by Leonardo da Vinci), Decorative Scripture in Middle Ages, Gift Books in late 19th century, Design Books in the era of Art Nouveau &...
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Juergen Teller: HandbagsThe master fashion photographer makes a gorgeous typology of the ultimate accessory"Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph," Juergen Teller says, apropos of his latest book. "I replied: 'Actually, come to think of it,...
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LightopiaAn investigation into the development of light design within a broad cultural and historical contextLightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of cultural history. The starting point for the book...
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MoneyAn exploration of the images inscribed on banknotesThis is a book about the pictures on banknotes: pictures of political subject-matter, historical milestones, distinguished personages, status symbols, and landscapes. Banknotes are mini-posters proclaiming an idealized world. Money is a mystery: monetary value seeks a visual...
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You're Invited!: Invitation Design for Every OccasionInvitations provide the perfect personal touch for everything from private events to opening nights. You're Invited is the definitive guide to this versatile and charming medium. Whether for a wedding, a birthday, or a fashion show, invitations carry a touch of the personal. Carefully...
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Blue Blooded: Denim Hunters and Jeans CultureJeans are equal parts subculture and establishment. Worn as both work clothes and luxury fashion, they are practically universal. This book contains everything you need--and want--to know about jeans. Denim embodies authenticity, rebellion, workwear, and the old west. Denim hunters tirelessly search ghost towns...
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Go Faster: The Graphic Design of Racing CarsMost people don't know that racing cars from the likes of Porsche and Ferrari were given their looks not by marketing strategists or designers, but by chance. Go Faster is a collection of over one hundred examples of racecar design that documents the carefree...
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Working 2017/2018-Year after year Working, edited by Peter Zec, one of the best design experts in the world, presents products from work- and technology-oriented fields -Focuses on design products from offices, heating and air conditioning, industry and crafts, life science and medicine, as well as...
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Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography: A-Z- Features recently discovered, previously unpublished materials from the archives of the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin by Bauhaus professor and renowned avant-garde artist L szl Moholy-Nagy- Includes work by Moholy-Nagy, Guillaume Apollinaire, F.T. Marinetti, Theo van Doesburg, Herbert Bayer, Walter Dexel, and El Lissitzky- Published...
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