Arts & Design & Fashion (GR)

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings. With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect Heino Engel describes everything from room functions and the flexibility of partitions to...

A cat in a tutu is worth a thousand words! Using the most common embroidery stitches, Cat Mania Embroidery places your feline friends in wacky situations of the kind they'd probably get themselves into, given half the chance. Wide-eyed "Who—me?" cats; dancing, frolicking cats; cats in the air and in...

An ambient space can bring happiness, comfort, and an upgraded sense to people. A skilled interior designer plays a crucial role in creating a welcoming atmosphere in many renowned restaurants and hotspots. However, these designers often contribute silently to their clients’ success, and it is rare for clients to be...

Differing from ordinary shoe design books, this is a complete handbook geared towards practical usage by footwear designers. It includes three main sections: Shoe Style Library, Shoe Encyclopaedia, and Shoe Templates for Tracing. The first section features more than 300 styles of shoes, ranging from historical archetypes to the most...

Fashionary's Bag Design encyclopedia is the most comprehensive resource for bag designers and bag lovers. Focusing on the specific needs of bag designers, Fashionary has provided essential information on bag anatomy, manafacturing, materials and much more in one compact, convenient volume.

This fun volume from fashion experts Fashionary tracks the rise to fame of the most influential designers in fashion . This visual book walks you through the stories of the world's greatest designers, across the decades. Explore each of the legend's life choices, learn how they adapted to trends and...

One of Europe's most beautiful cities is celebrated through the talents of artist Fabrice MoireauHis images capture the history and romance of Paris, highlighting the contrasts of the French capital: its grand public buildings and intimate private houses, majestic avenues and narrow lanes. Visit the Louvre, Beaubourg, Orsay, Picasso, La...

No other large city is more rewarding to wander around, with a wealth of interesting things to see, both grand and intimate in scale. Watercolor painter Graham Byfield set out to capture the essence of the place, and his impressions are recorded in the London SketchbookBritain's capital is varied and cosmopolitan....

Buku ini memaparkan asal usul warisan budaya ilmu sastera pembuatan Broked Shu, seni pertukangan serta sejarah dan penama warisan yang masyhur.Pada masa yang sama, ia akan memperkenalkan waris-waris budaya ini dan mensyorkan projek-projek perlindungan warisan budaya tersebut.

Art is a kind of ideology conveyed through the images created by men to reflect their social life. It is born of reality but is more representative than reality. Traditional Chinese arts refer to the art forms and works passed down from one generation to another throughout history. The time-honored...

Ci poetry is generally used to express emotions and sentiments, it inherits the tradition of expressing one's detached interest in secluded rural life through the depict of pastoral landscapes. Ci poem derived from kind of popular lyrical songs in the ancient times, most of which are songs of love affairs...

Sewing techniques are sometimes overlooked in the design process but acquiring these skills can be transformational. The ability to turn a two-dimensional design into its three-dimensional realization comes from having mastered basic sewing techniques. Sewing Techniques simplifies the often complex techniques that lie behind this process by arming designers with the precise...

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new edition is a completely revised, updated and extended version of a classic text.Focusing on what designers actually do when they are designing, the book is structured around a...

With The Fashion Design Toolkit you'll learn how tried-and-tested techniques like gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists can help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs. Tracy Jennings walks you through 18 patterning tactics to inspire fresh ideas, demonstrating how embracing pattern drafting skills can lead to innovative and effective...

Through ten detailed case studies on groundbreaking brands like Vivienne Westwood, Vera Wang, Levi's®, and The Gap Inc., Fashion Brand Stories shows how fashion retailers and designers use storytelling to establish and maintain relationships with their customers.These entertaining case studies explore the evolution of each brand as a cultural entity with its...

Users want simple designs, but they also crave performance. More performance means more complexity. How can designers, inventors, and product managers handle this trade-off? How can they create designs that are quick to process as well as meaningful, unique, and memorable in an age characterized by constant information overload?The answer...

This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of the...

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that you need to know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies, and processes. This book has been reorganized in a purely...

Delve into the art of menswear illustration and learn what it takes to create professional, praiseworthy fashion sketches.With over 300 color examples, illustrator and educator Lamont O'Neal uses a mixture of watercolor, marker, pencil and digital tools to help you master fundamentals such as anatomy and proportion. Later chapters focus...

Discover the tools required to pursue your career in cosmetics marketing. Through an in-depth analysis of this fast-growing and complex industry, Cosmetics Marketing: Strategy and Innovation in the Beauty Industry provides thought-provoking, industry-led exercises and case studies to demonstrate the role of aesthetics, authentic communication, emerging technologies, cultural trends, and...