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Fetishism in FashionInternationally renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort delves into the fetishistic world of contemporary fashion to reveal a daring and instinctive future for style and culture.As Edelkoort explains, the book explores various themes, from our fundamental need to cover ourselves to the eccentric extremes to...
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Costume & FashionFrom the Dutch Golden Age to Saint Laurent: four centuries of costume from the unrivaled collection of the RijksmuseumThis richly illustrated book presents 80 exceptional garments from the Rijksmuseum's substantial costume collection, the oldest in the Netherlands. From the clothes of the Frisian branch...
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Convivial Toolbox: Generative Research for the Front End of DesignGenerative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is...
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333 Birds: Peter VosA facsimile of a sketchbook by the Dutch artist and illustrator Peter Vos along with a volume of introductory essays. From time immemorial, people have been fascinated by birds and have created images of their winged companions. The artist Peter Vos (1935-2010) was one...
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Kartell: 150 Items, 150 ArtworksChronicling the 50-year history of a famed design firm through the lenses of world-renowned photographersThe international design firm Kartell is especially known for successful product collaborations with stars of contemporary design such as Ron Arad, Antonio Citterio, Enzo Mari, Piero Lissoni, Alberto Meda, Vico...
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Fulvio Bianconi at VeniniThe refined output of vases, bowls, and animals by the great graphic artist, illustrator, and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse.Author: Marino BarovierPublisher: SkiraPublished: 10/25/2016Pages: 512Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 9.10lbsSize: 12.10h x 11.40w x 2.00dISBN: 9788857230085About the AuthorMarino Barovier is an author and independent curator....
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Design History HandbookAn overarching vision of the development of designDedicated to the history of design from the mid-19th century to the present, Design History Handbook provides guidelines for the development of design, offering an overarching vision of the subject and at the same time highlighting areas...
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Posters: Eat & Drink in Italian Advertising: 1890-1970A delightful window into the golden age of Italian food advertisementThis book offers the opportunity to delight in the graphic creativity of the advertising of Italy's major food producers, including Cinzano spumante, Perugina chocolate, Saiwa biscuits and Voiello pasta, as well as campaigns launched...
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Max BillThe definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work spanned from graphic design and advertising typography to product and furniture design and from painting to sculpture.A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist,...
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100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from IllustrationIllustration is applied imagination. This book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations--lots of them. But there's more. This book examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you...
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What Images Really Tell Us: Visual Rhetoric in Art, Graphic Design, and AdvertisingHow do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present times, from...
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Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes RepairEasy, well-illustrated manual which describes how to mend clothes.Author: Anna de LeoPublisher: PromopressPublished: 06/02/2020Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.60dISBN: 9788417412364About the AuthorAnna De Leo was born in Cosenza in 1987. In 2014 she graduated at the Euromode School Italia, in...
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Fashion Sketching: Templates, Poses and Ideas for Fashion DesignFashion Sketching aims to help emerging designers and fashion professionals cut down the time required to produce a collection. It offers every type of silhouette and pose for women, men, and children, so that designers are able to produce sketches that are faithful to...
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Fashion Drawing Course: From Human Figure to Fashion IllustrationWhen fashion designers draw the human body they need to capture its movement and also take into account how it responds to fabrics and volumes. Fashion Drawing Course analyses the most useful techniques for drawing the human figure in the context of fashion design....
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curso de semiología: para artistas y diseñadoresUn texto práctico, basado en los más recientes avances de la teoría del arte, las neurociencias y las ciencias de la percepción sensorial, que auxilia tanto al experto como al estudiante para tener un mayor control sobre los efectos emotivos y de la conducta...
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Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs EleganceJapanese stencil design has a long history since 8th century, and has been used for armor, kimonos, costumes for Noh and other entertainments. This book reproduces more than 300 stencil designs from the archive of Tabata family, created over 200-year span. This 'Elegance' volume...
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms Official Artwork CollectionThe official artworks of anime movie, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. Maquia is the first full-length anime movie directed by Mari Okada, who is well known as the screenwriter of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and The Anthem of the Heart....
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Kei Meguro FacesFACES is a first collection of amazing pencil drawings by Kei Meguro. With well-examined facial expressions and composition, her monochrome illustrations, mainly portraits of women, are adopted in ads, posters, magazines and product packages in the world. In this book, you can see not...
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Decoration GraphicsA collection of more than 200 attractive decorations for graphic designs Decorative ruffled borders, unique frames, and background patterns create extra visual impact for an audience. By adding borders and other designs, graphic designers can enhance the attractiveness of advertisements.This book showcases over 200...
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Typography TodayThere are typographic works that outlive the times in which they were created. Some of these works have been brought together to form this book. "typography today" celebrates 20th century typography with contributions by John Cage, Wim Crouwel, Franco Grignani, Helmut Schmid, Kohei Sugiura...
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