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A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store and you ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century rag trade of Jewish tailors, cutters,...
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3D papercraft inspirationsAuthor: Sophie MarcouxPublisher: Sophie MarcouxPublished: 01/21/2023Pages: 122Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9780986520273
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From Gutenberg to Opentype: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital FontsThis lively account of the printed word draws together the histories of typography and printing into one robustly illustrated volume, and describes how dramatic changes in technology have affected type design. Historical paintings, engravings, and photographs give a visual context to the different eras...
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Early American Crewel DesignContains embroidery designs from cushions, tablecloths, fire screens, bed hangings, pillows and more.Author: Frances M. Bradbury, BradburyPublisher: Stemmer House PublishersPublished: 02/02/1995Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 11.13h x 8.43w x 0.22dISBN: 9780880450928This title is only available via back order
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Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo ArtSculptural beauty and technical flair highlight Japanese ceramics and baskets from the Snider CollectionThe blossoming of contemporary crafts in Japan that began in the twentieth century is rooted in a long and rich tradition of exquisite design and technical accomplishment. Featuring some 100 works...
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Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy CollectionThe American quilt as modern artQuilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. Influenced by twentieth-century art developments such as Abstraction, Op art and the...
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The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder CollectionA collection of turn-of-the century postcards from all over the world: this is the perfect gift for anyone interested in graphic design, decorative arts and vintage ephemeraIn the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard...
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Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border PatrolInspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists' book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet. Rice has created a series of beautiful and jarring montages in which the mixture of languages, slang,...
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How to Draft Basic PatternsAuthor: Ernestine Kopp, Lee Gross, Beatrice ZelinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublished: 09/25/1991Pages: 135Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 12.03h x 9.13w x 0.42dISBN: 9780870057472About the AuthorErnestine Kopp, Vittorina Rolfo, Beatrice Zelin and Lee Gross are affiliated with the Fashion Istitute of Technology
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Markham RobertsKnown for his ability to work in any design vernacular, Markham Roberts brings a fresh approach to traditional and contemporary styles alike. His work is not defined by signature looks or design trends. Rather, using an inventive combination of layered patterns and color as...
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John McHugh Travel SketchesThe beautiful and lively sketches in this volume are travel sketches by the Santa Fe architect John McHugh-designer of the first Santa Fe Opera Pavilion and designer and restoration architect for a host of churches, fine houses, and commercial and institutional buildings in New...
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Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin AmericaRecent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider audience than ever before but has often failed to confront its continuing marginalization within art criticism. Drawing the Line is...
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Fashion Film: Art and Advertising in the Digital AgeThe moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age,...
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Designing Business and ManagementScholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers, the book offers visual...
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Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, PracticeFashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling...
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Design and the Question of HistoryDesign and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a...
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Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of SunglassesCool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion...
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Poiret, Dior and SchiaparelliThrough a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the 20th century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining idea of...
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Fiona Barratt-Campbell: ElementalThe first book to showcase the award-winning work of interior designer and entrepreneur Fiona Barratt-Campbell, whose interiors marry a sense of opulence with bold, material simplicity. Fiona Barratt-Campbell established Fiona Barratt Interiors in 2006 and is increasingly recognized as one of Britain's leading figures...
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Mina Perhonen: RipplesThe first large format book on the house of Mina Perhonen, one of the most profoundly Japanese of the women's lines to come out of the Tokyo in the last three decades. A unique blend of Scandinavian sensibility and Japanese, Mina Perhonen is characterized...
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