Design

A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.

In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design.

Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.

Unique Features

• Inside tips and tricks from a CNC professional with a broad background of art, engineering, architecture, and teaching.
• In-depth discussions of using Fusion, the design environment and basic drawing tools, and CAD, the manufacturing environment, as well as creating programs for running on CNC machines.
• An affiliated website, www.cncbeginner.com, is perfect for visual learners, with helpful online video tutorials, color photographs, and graphs seen in the book with more detailed explanation.

The maelstrom of change takes us with it - but instead of fearing it, we can learn to shape it. Heraclitus' wisdom - Panta rhei - is more relevant today than ever: security, food, digitalization, power - all these cornerstones of our lives are in a state of upheaval. But change does not have to be a threat, it can be an opportunity!

In this volume, 15 creative minds have their say and show how they are tackling the changes of our time - with art, new narratives and innovative economic models. Their ideas inspire us not only to accept change, but to actively shape it.

• 15 creative minds show how change can be used as an opportunity
• Inspiration for upheaval
• Insight into creative strategies for shaping change yourself

What we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by technological change, this book articulates a fundamental principle for design: that we should design not just from practical needs but from the values that underlie those needs.

Artful Design takes readers on a journey through the aesthetic dimensions of technology. Using music as a universal phenomenon that has evolved alongside technology, this book breaks down concrete case studies in computer-mediated toys, tools, games, and instruments, including the best-selling app Ocarina. Every chapter elaborates a set of general design principles and strategies that illuminate the essential relationship between aesthetics and engineering, art and design.

Ge Wang implores us to both embrace and confront technology, not purely as a means to an end, but in its potential to enrich life. Technology is never a neutral agent, but through what we do with it—through what we design with it—it provides a mirror to our human endeavors and values. Artful Design delivers an aesthetic manifesto of technology, accessible yet uncompromising.

Alessandro Michele’s creative direction at Gucci, starting in 2015, transformed the brand into a maximalist, gender-fluid and intellectual aesthetic that blended vintage-inspired, eclectic designs with philosophical and cultural references

Before Alessandro Michele took the creative helm at Gucci in 2015, the brand was mostly known for its sleek sophistication and sexy hedonism. Despite having worked at the Italian fashion house for over twelve years as the accessories and jewellery designer, Michele was relatively unknown in the fashion industry and the public sphere. All of that was to change when he sent his models down the runway for the 2015 Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collection in an eclectic mix of pussy-bow blouses, chiffon dresses, wallpaper prints and a motley collection of accessories, including fur-lined loafers, berets and granny-style horn-rimmed glasses. Michele’s stylistic design approach created an aesthetic reminiscent of the fashion eccentric who wears flea market finds with high-end designer and heirloom pieces – imperfect, nostalgic and maximalist. The new Gucci woman (and man) were intellectual and sensual misfits who are perfectly at home in the glamourous rag-tag aesthetic of a Wes Anderson film.
With his inaugurate collection, Michele tapped into the zeitgeist that was yearning for a more colourful and playful design, and a disregard of traditional gender divisions: while Gucci has hitherto showcased its men’s and women’s collections separately, as well as favoured traditional masculine and feminine looks respectively, Michele broke with the idea of a gender binary, ushering in gender fluidity and a new fantastical vision of masculinity.
Although his collections were spectacular in their scope (the Fall/Winter 2017 consists of roughly 120 looks), the designs are also a testimony to his ability to scramble signifiers of gender, pop culture, history and time. Referencing and borrowing from philosophical concepts and ideas, such as the infamous Cyborg collection (Gucci Fall/Winter 2019) that envisioned subjectivities beyond the confines of the human body with replica heads or extra eyes on their hands; the Fall/Winter 2016 collection titled ‘Rhizomatic Scores’, referencing Deleuze and Guattari’s influential concept; or the Fall/Winter 2020 menswear collection titled ‘Masculine, Plural’ that referenced Butler’s notion of gender performativity, Michele exemplifies a fashion auteur who knows how to play not only with gender signifiers but also with signifiers of time, culture and species.

Dial up your inner Dior with this beautifully designed colouring book - a stylish homage to the fashion powerhouse.

Featuring artwork inspired by the brand - collections, catwalk looks and key pieces - the world is your runway as you colour and customise stunning Dior ensembles and iconic signature looks through fashion history, from organza dresses and Oscars gowns to timeless handbags and signature perfumes, and beyond!

Showcasing the Lady Dior bag, The New Look, celebrity clients and more, this is a celebration of one of the finest fashion brands in the world.

Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we’d all like our letters, reports and other documents to look as good – and as readable – as possible. 

But what does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing, and visual centering mean, and what are the rules for good typography? Type Matters! is a book of tips for everyday use, for all users of typography, from students and professionals to anyone who does any layout design on a computer. The book is arranged into three chapters: an introduction to the basics of typography; headline and display type; and setting text. 

Within each chapter there are sections devoted to particular principles or problems, such as selecting the right typeface, leading, and the treatment of numbers. Examples throughout show precisely what makes good typography – and, crucially, what doesn’t. Authoritatively written and designed by a practitioner and teacher of typography, Type Matters! has a beautifully clear layout that reinforces the principles discussed throughout.

»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attentiveness to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.

Hans Döllgast’s architectural works of reconstruction and repair have become seminal, resonating with the contemporary prioritisation of reuse at times of climate emergency. Issue 09/2025 reflects on the nature of his relevance today, addressing unexplored questions about his reception and legacy. An international group of architects and architectural historians examine his pedagogy, writings and buildings. The contributors explore what Döllgast shared with contemporary architects, and how this legacy could speak to current challenges. They ask how we can fathom the architectural knowledge – regarding the process, thinking, approach, conception and making – contained in Döllgast’s work.

A garment-by-garment exploration of Prince's singular style and continued influence on contemporary fashion.

Not only was Prince a musical genius and one of the greatest artists of all time, he was a fashion icon, a trailblazer devoted to the art of dressing. Lifelong fan and fashion historian Casci Ritchie assembles a greatest-hits compilation of the best pieces in Prince's wardrobe—from ornate ear cuff down to bespoke heel—telling each garment's incredible origin story and showing how his tastes disrupted hegemonic, heteronormative, and Black masculinities.

On His Royal Badness considers Prince as a visionary artist and fearless provocateur who revered fashion and self-expression, and whose sartorial brilliance continues to shape contemporary culture.

Unaffiliated with the Prince Estate.

Learn how to draw like a fashion designer, step by step!

• The Perfect Gift for the Aspiring Fashionista! Over 330 step-by-step drawings make learning simple; sewn binding lets pages stay open, making it easy to follow along; printed on premium quality paper 
• Builds Your Skills: Starts off with the basics of drawing the fashion head and body, then moves on to different types of clothing and fashion poses. 
• Helps You Develop Your Own Style: Packed with tons of details and advice that will help you express your own fashion vision. 

• Shirts and blouses: Learn how to put your own creative spin on them with different necklines, sleeve lengths, and fit. 
• Skirts and pants: From capri pants and mini skirts to bell bottoms and pencil skirts • Beyond the little black dress: You’ll master the LBD as well as fit-and-flares, off the shoulder, and other styles. 
• Men’s fashion: It’s not just a woman’s world, we’ve got the guys covered as well, with templates for drawing suits, vests, and more. 

What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This book traces the remarkable rise of this professional identity in historical perspective from a position of anonymity in the early twentieth century, to mid-century professionalisation, to decline and disintegration by 1980.

Drawing on new, extensive, original archival research, it uncovers the history of a profession in a state of re-invention, 1930-1980 in Britain and the United States. The book tests assumptions about the relationship between the professions in the two countries, bringing them into comparative historical perspective for the first time. The gendered dynamics of professionalisation and their interaction with the representation of the heroic male designer are interrogated and critically examined. Building on new gender perspectives to the history of the industrial design profession, the book calls for a re-examination of the limits and boundaries of what constitutes professional identity and work.

• China Style Goes Global
• Ming and Qing Elegance Redefined
• Chinoiserie Old and New
• The New Shanghai Style
• China Modern
• Decorating China Style

• Drawing the Human Figure: Master the proportions of male and female figures, including heads, hands, arms, legs, and torsos


• Drawing Fabrics on the Body: Learn to render various fabrics and textiles with folds, gathers, wrinkles and shadows and how to draw them draped over the body using different types of pens and media


• Illustrating and Designing Clothes: Learn to draw a wide range of individual garments as well as stunning ensembles and accessories, including skirts, dresses, shirts, pants, jackets, shoes, bags, bras, panties and much more!


• Getting Creative with Colors and Fabrics: Explore patterns, surface textures, and color palettes to elevate your illustrations with depth and personality

• Designing three-dimensional vehicles using a perspective grid, schematics, blueprints and linear and axial measurements
• Using real-world inspirations—from modes of transport to animals and organic forms—as the basis for more fantastical forms and creations
• Illustration techniques that allow you to create realistic three-dimensional vehicles: line, depth, shadow, coloration and rendering the surfaces of various materials
• Step-by-step tutorials, six in all, allow you to create sci-fi mashups of cars, copters, jet fighters and battleships or use these designs as the inspiration for your own creations

• Flowers and grasses
• Birds and other animals
• Symbols of power, luck and prestige
• Land-and-seascapes
• scenes from literature, history and daily life
• scenes of travel and the Japanese concept of other lands
• and many others…

• Artistic table arrangements
• Dining room accents
• Framing enhancements
• Fabric coverings

• Start with the basic tools and techniques of hand lettering
• Learn to draw 8 elegant typefaces with just 2 or 3 simple strokes
• Create compositions with fancy flourishes, "bounce" and rhythm
• Design a planner, journal, place cards, greeting cards, gift tags, invitations, etc.
• And much more!

Examines Raf Simons’s groundbreaking impact on menswear, showing how his designs challenge gender norms and use fashion as cultural commentary on modern masculinity.

Raf Simons: Fashion, Communication, and Modern Masculinity offers an in-depth look at how Raf Simons, through his bold and boundary-pushing designs, has become a pivotal figure in reshaping the discourse on masculinity in fashion. Starting from his early collections to his leadership at renowned fashion houses like Jil Sander, Dior, and Calvin Klein, the book traces Simons’s journey in using fashion as a platform to comment on societal pressures, identity, and modern manhood.
The book not only highlights Simons’s ability to merge subcultural references with high fashion but also his unique talent for creating garments that convey complex narratives of masculinity, individuality, and rebellion. Through detailed analyses of his most iconic collections, Simons’s work is positioned as a significant cultural force that speaks to the evolving perceptions of gender roles and self-expression in contemporary society.
Interviews with key collaborators and rare archival insights give readers an inside view of the creative processes behind Simons’s groundbreaking designs. By connecting fashion with broader cultural and gender studies, the book invites a deeper understanding of how clothing can shape and reflect the changing definitions of masculinity today.

Staff design is a combination of team leadership and in-the-pixels design work, all without managing direct reports. This handbook will guide you to success—whether you’re already navigating a staff design role, or you’re deciding if you should embark on the journey. You’ll learn to build influence with soft power, improve your communication, and impact strategy at scale.

Who Should Read This Book

This book was written for UX practitioners who are considering the staff design role, including:

• Senior designers who want to get promoted to the staff level by identifying and filling their competency gap.
• UX practitioners who want to learn about the role before choosing between hands-on and management paths. 

It’s also incredibly helpful for staff designers in need of new tactics to shift from reactive to proactive, build influence, and become the leader they want to be.

Takeaways

• Learn what the difference is between a staff designer and a senior designer.
• Compare the duties of a staff designer in a small, medium, and large company settings.
• Make time for visioning and planning projects while you set healthy boundaries.
• Create and drive a product vision.
• Know how to build influence without authority. 
• Scale your impact and prove your value as a staff designer.

A must-read for graphic design students and pros, this in-depth guide unlocks the power of negative space and typography in logos through the exploration of seven core design mechanisms to craft memorable, impactful logotypes and monograms that engage, inspire, and endure

This comprehensive guide to logo design with negative space is aimed at graphic design students and professionals who want to master the art of creating memorable, impactful logos. The book goes beyond surface aesthetics to explore design mechanism — the underlying creative forces that make logos resonate visually and cognitively. Focusing primarily on logotypes and monograms, the book underscores typography’s vital role in shaping logos that are both simple and unforgettable. It encourages designers to meticulously explore every detail of letters, fonts, and names, showing how the intelligent use of negative space enhances recognition and storytelling within a logo. Through careful analysis of both professional and student work, readers gain insight into how principles like Gestalt theory and cognitive disfluency can be harnessed to craft logos that engage viewers and leave a lasting impression. This guide rejects decorative, superficial logo design in favor of an approach rooted in thoughtful exploration and artistic rigor. The author introduces seven core design mechanisms that provide practical frameworks for transforming abstract ideas into visually compelling logos. Among these is the innovative application of Karl Rosenkranz’s Aesthetics of Ugliness, which challenges designers to embrace imperfection and asymmetry as tools for creating logos with unique visual impact and emotional depth. Organized around key themes such as the challenge of novelty in negative space logos, designing a synergized logotype, how the orientation of the logo provides direction, and articulating ambiguity and the playful use of numbers, the book offers rich insights into the anatomy of letterforms, strategic use of negative space, and the art of crafting logos that tell multiple stories. Designed for those who seek to push the boundaries of logo design, this book empowers readers with the mindset, knowledge, and tools needed to create logos that go beyond mere decoration — ones that engage, inspire, and endure.

In 1995, Michael Erlhoff formulated a beautiful vision in Nutzen statt Besitzen (Use Instead of Ownership) that anticipated many later debates. What was intended as an alternative to the logic of ownership is now more relevant than ever considering global crises; however, questions and problems that were hardly considered at the time are also emerging.

The new edition, supplemented with 20 new essays, reopens the topic and continues to think boldly and speculatively. The diversity of the contributions corresponds to the open and "undisciplined" self-image of BIRD. Even after 30 years, Erlhoff's plea remains a groundbreaking impetus—to reflect on what may lie ahead and how we want to live.

Authors: Michael Erlhoff, Tom Bieling, Uta Brandes, Katharina Bredies, Rosan Chow, Meret Ernst, Köbi Gantenbein, Simon Grand, Angela Grosso Ciponte und Evelyne Roth, Harald Gruendl, Saskia Herbert, Wolfgang Jonas, Simon Küffer, Ralf Michel, Stephan Rammler, Hans Ulrich Reck, Erik Spiekermann, Peter Friedrich Stephan, Kai Völcker und Peter Eckart, Thomas Wagner

• Improve your creative process
• Raise the quality and craft of your work
• Consider the experience as much as the product
• Adopt simplicity, utility and honesty as guiding principles

Are your designs protecting—or exposing—your users? In Design for Privacy, you’ll uncover how shifting technologies threaten personal data and what that means for your work. This book offers practical guidelines and proven strategies to create experiences that respect and protect people’s privacy, while helping you foster a culture of “privacy by design” in your organization and practice.

Who Should Read This Book

All designers—UX, interface, or product—are waking up to the importance of privacy. But if you’re a strategist, a developer, a producer, or a product manager, online privacy is your job, too. Design for Privacy dissects and explains the ever-changing field of designing for privacy in depth.

Takeaways

In the fluid world of online privacy, this book explains how to address:

• Critical privacy issues, such as cyberstalking and bullying
• How to handle your role as a designer of privacy issues
• Why your business should care about your customers’ privacy
• What it means to handle data responsibly
• How to use careful language with regard to privacy
• Which privacy tools work
• How to create a privacy-by-design scenario in your business
• How AI is impacting online privacy
• How legal, ethical, and moral issues affect privacy
• How to comply with federal and international laws of privacy
• What your rights are where privacy is concerned

Every interaction the customer has around your brand contributes to the story of their experience. This book provides actionable advice to tell a powerful story your customers will love. —Katie Dill, Vice President of Design, Lyft

Customer experiences are increasingly complicated—with multiple channels, touchpoints, contexts, and moving parts—all delivered by fragmented organizations. How can you bring your ideas to life in the face of such complexity? Orchestrating Experiences is a practical guide for designers and everyone struggling to create products and services in complex environments.

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. 

Its experience–driven approach—written by designers for designers—will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design's role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

Emotion. Ego. Impatience. Stubbornness. Characteristics like these make creating sites and apps for kids a daunting proposition. However, with a bit of knowledge, you can design experiences that help children think, play, and learn. With Design for Kids, you'll learn how to create digital products for today's connected generation.

Like a good story, successful design is a series of engaging moments structured over time. The User’s Journey will show you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and test a cohesive vision for an engaging outcome. See how a “story first” approach can transform your product, feature, landing page, flow, campaign, content, or product strategy.

If you're an executive, designer, product manager, marketer, or engineer, communication is part of your work. Using images and text in unique ways, comics can engage readers in ways traditional methods can't. In See What I Mean, you'll learn how to create comics about your products and processes without an illustrator—just like Google, eBay, and Adobe do.

Prototyping is a great way to communicate the intent of a design both clearly and effectively. Prototypes help you to flesh out design ideas, test assumptions, and gather real-time feedback from users. With this book, Todd Zaki Warfel shows how prototypes are more than just a design tool by demonstrating how they can help you market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team.

Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences. 

Whether you've studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate behavior change principles into your designs to help people achieve meaningful goals, learn and grow, and connect with one another. Engaged offers practical tips for design professionals to apply the psychology of engagement to their work.

In our interconnected world, we face a complex cybersecurity ecosystem where digital vulnerabilities can have far-reaching consequences. Threats to digital infrastructure often impact critical physical systems, potentially causing real-world harm. With AI agents set to handle extensive personal information, data security and privacy are more crucial than ever.

Human-Centered Security targets professionals designing digital products that handle sensitive data: UX designers, engineers, and product managers. It's also for those responsible for securing organizational data and systems: security engineers, CISOs, CIOs, and teams focused on risk management, legal, privacy, and compliance.

These professionals influence security-related behaviors and possess deep knowledge of threats to their products or organizations. This places a significant responsibility on them to design resilient systems that encourage safer outcomes. As the stakes continue to rise in our digital landscape, their role in protecting users from evolving cybersecurity risks becomes increasingly vital.

• Focus on areas of the user experience where security impacts users the most. These are places where users are signing up, configuring a product for the first time, handling customer or patient data, or when confronted with a security or privacy-related message or warning, to name a few.
• Understand the dynamics of the security ecosystem. Looking at the security ecosystem from a single vantage point won’t work. Instead, you need to understand how the system design impacts users, how user actions prompt changes to the system design, how threat actors take advantage, how threat actors actions prompt changes to the system design, how users react, and on and on.
• Find your security UX allies. Think of a Venn diagram, with circles representing the security team, the UX team, the product team, the engineering team, the legal and privacy teams, as so on. To improve the security user experience, these circles must overlap. In other words, each group’s expertise and perspective are required to understand and design for the dynamic cybersecurity ecosystem.
• Ask better questions when talking to your cross-disciplinary team. These questions will help your team anticipate how users might react and how threat actors might take advantage.
• What to consider when designing for secure outcomes. The book examines some of the most common security user experience issues.
• Embrace iteration. Users will do things you didn't expect or account for. Even more importantly, threat actors will act in ways you couldn't have predicted. What was effective yesterday might not be as effective today.

Over the past decade, service designers have played an essential role in creating comprehensive, customer-focused products and services. This updated edition of an industry classic highlights the practice’s evolution and broadened impact in the business world. You’ll benefit from new frameworks, tools, and methods, and learn from fresh case studies that demonstrate the value of service design across service ecosystems.

Who Should Read This Book

If you’re involved in business, this second edition of Service Design will help you gain knowledge about how best to serve your customers. The following people would find it especially beneficial:

• Service designers
• User experience designers, graphic designers, or any type of designer
• Product and project managers
• Leaders of organizations
• Marketing people
• Customer service representatives

Takeaways

If you’re new to service design, this book will help you:

• Uncover the true meaning of service design.
• Learn how services differ from products.
• Prototype different service experiences.
• Measure services and journeys.
• Make the case for return on investment to an organization with service design.
• Deploy service design in a business.
• Show how to design with people, not for them.
• Understand how to work across time and multiple touchpoints.

Without words, apps would be an unusable jumble of shapes and icons, while voice interfaces and chatbots wouldn't even exist. Words make software human–centered, and require just as much thought as the branding and code. This book will show you how to give your users clarity, test your words, and collaborate with your team. You'll see that writing is designing.

Your favorite apps and programs share one thing in common: they are all thoughtfully designed. Design Operations is the business practice that ensures great design and great designers thrive and deliver meaningful impact. The Design Conductors is your comprehensive guide to DesignOps. You’ll learn how to successfully advocate for, build out, scale up, and ultimately operate design organizations.

Who Should Read This Book?

Although The Design Conductors is definitely for designers, it's also an essential field guide for product and project managers of all types. Anyone who works in the intersection of process and change management, such as healthcare, tech, or financial services, can learn the design methodologies used by DesignOps practitioners. People who work hand–in–hand with designers, particularly those in the fields of software, hardware, or creative design, will also find this book useful. Finally, leaders in design, product, business, and engineering should read this book to learn how to create their own DesignOps culture where teams who build great user experiences can thrive.

Takeaways

• Learn what DesignOps is and where it began.
• Explore the most common backgrounds for people who want to become DesignOps practitioners.
• Define the eight career competencies that all DesignOps practitioners share.
• Learn the practical application of building, running, and growing a DesignOps team—one that is already in existence or one that is built from scratch.
• Highlight the different kinds of paths a DesignOps professional can take in their career—with real-world examples.
• Operationalize values by leading to effect transformative changes in teams and businesses.
• Show how the four most common DesignOps org models influence the ways in which teams can function and be organized.
• Use the book’s comprehensive toolkit for both hiring or interviewing for a DesignOps team.

Practical insights and clear principles: offering a fresh perspective on designing for a future that is constantly changing

Artificial intelligence, automation and ever new data-driven tools are reshaping the creative world, and the roles of design and communication are evolving rapidly. The true innovation in this context is to create authenticity that endures beyond fleeting technological shifts. The Generative Mind encourages to rise above short-lived trends and view design as something alive and constantly evolving – in a world that refuses to stand still. 

The author combines systems thinking, generative design and a human-centered perspective to offer a new approach to working with technology to generate ideas, design and tell stories. In eight clear principles, he demonstrates how design can be understood as a process that challenges boundaries to transcend the visible and influence perception: a book for all those who understand creativity as a journey and not just a destination and aspire to actively shape the future of design.

New approaches to the function design's role to brand success

In his new book, the award-winning author examines the value of brands and the essential role of brand design. He provides a scientifically sound understanding of the underlying methods, modes of action, processes and objectives. His approach represents a shift in perspective: rather thancharging a brand with exclusive meanings, but the primary goal should be to reach as many people as possible and increase their willingness to purchase the brand's product.

Good design significantly contributes to the success of a brand by making it perceptible, recognizable and memorable, and thereby facilitating the purchasing process. The question of impact is, to a large extent, a question of form – the physical reality of the design and how it is communicated. Christoph Zielke presents the overall context in a compact way and provides well-founded insights for developing effective design strategies that sustainably increase brand value.

Insightful texts on book design that explore the visual, tactile, and cultural aspects of books through the perspective of graphic designers

Fifty readings on book design, authored by Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Formal Settings, unfold across the pages of this volume. Drawn from a curated selection of titles in the private collection of the Hopscotch Reading Room – a conceptual bookshop and event space in Berlin – each text focuses on a single book, examining its visual and tactile qualities, from materials and layout to binding and typography. “Our aim is to understand the role and potential of books through a design lens, mapping what they communicate through their physical form.” 

The authors guide readers through the intricacies of book design, showing how form can become message – how a book can serve as a vessel, a statement, and an object of beauty in its own right. They explore and examine each book as a design object, situating it within the cultural movements, political climates, and economic conditions in which it was produced. This publication reveals how book design can foster shared languages and cultures, create space for the exchange and exploration of ideas, and underscore the social and cultural dimensions of design itself. 

With an afterword by designer, author, and teacher Prem Krishnamurthy, providing further context and insight into the project.

Explores how Ray Petri and the Buffalo collective revolutionized fashion photography in the 1980s by blending subcultural style, radical diversity, and gender politics to create a new cultural template still influential today

Scottish-born, visionary stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989) defined the look and feel of radical 1980s magazines such as The Face, i-D, and Arena. Founder of the maverick Buffalo collective, Petri styled kilts with MA-1 flight jackets and Armani suits with Dr. Martens boots to create genre-defying looks that shook up London’s subcultural scene from grassroots to high fashion. Harnessing the power of street style, sportswear, club culture, new wave, and dandyism, Petri’s vision took the sartorial vocabulary of the perpetually displaced into the mainstream. His radical casting of Black and multiracial models, styling of men in skirts, and women cast as men was a retort to the prevailing aesthetic in contemporary fashion. Moreover, it marked a culturally reflexive, implicitly political approach to the relationship between fashion and identity. Challenging the policing of masculinity and sexuality in particular, Petri’s imagery boldly toyed with the iconography of homoeroticism, employing the language of fashion in the activism for gay liberation against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis. The eclectic Buffalo circle included fellow stylist Mitzi Lorenz; photographers Jamie Morgan, Mark Lebon and Jean-Baptiste Mondino; model-muses Nick and Barry Kamen and a young Naomi Campbell; and musicians such as Neneh Cherry. Shaped by Petri, the Buffalo attitude is intrinsic to style culture today having since inspired legions of photographers, stylists, and designers from Kim Jones to Ibrahim Kamara, Martine Rose, and Grace Wales Bonner. The spirit of Buffalo lives on in the countercultural references, cultural diversity, and post-gender conversation that underlies the most powerful of contemporary fashion imagery. This book traces how Ray Petri and Buffalo created the template for modern fashion photography by advocating not simply for a new aesthetic but for a new cultural order.

Having learned about geometry, perspective and representation of materials in the first volume, this second book in this two-part series delves deeper into the process of designing jewelry, from the first sketch to the final representation, with special emphasis on how to work on ideas, plan a collection, and design and depict a wide variety of pieces, taking the inspiration from natural forms or art history. The fundamentals of drawing different pieces, such as necklaces, rings, earrings, and bracelets, are carefully explained and illustrated in the book, which includes all the technical details to be taken into consideration when planning a jewelry piece, from the executive point of view. While the first volume focused on the tools needed to be able to accurately convey ideas, draw different materials, facets and effects, and master the use of color, this publication tackles the process from the initial idea, based in natural or geometrical forms, to the final drawing of the completed piece, including illustration techniques and sources of inspiration, all aspects that will stir up the reader’s creativity. It is the ultimate tool and resource for jewelry students and professionals, and even illustrators in search of professional guidelines in freehand drawing and painting techniques when representing jewelry.

This updated and extended edition of our best-selling book on sustainable jewelry includes new case studies and revised, up-to-date texts and brand profiles.

Sustainable Jewellery contains all there is to know in order to start down the path towards sustainability in the jewelry business, from the traceability of gems and metals to responsible production, the impact of the purification, smelting and polishing processes, and the greenest ways to work with certified raw materials. In the jewelry industry and beyond, consumers are demanding products that are ethical, hand-crafted, personal, and created with respect for the environment. This implies a sustainability strategy that takes into account the entire supply and sales chain, from the extraction of metals to the materials used as packaging. Updated texts and chapters include the latest developments in sustainable jewelry, with new case studies and fresh interviews with international designers and firms who are already creating ethical, responsible jewelry. With an introduction written by jeweler and activist Greg Valerio, this book is a unique and essential guide for all designers who want to ensure their products are ethical, sustainable and respectful of the environment.

A comprehensive guide to fabric manipulation aimed at fashion designers, textile artists, and sewing enthusiasts interested in pushing the boundaries of textile artistry

Aimed at fashion designers, textile artists, and sewing enthusiasts, this book is a comprehensive guide to a wide range of techniques for breathing new life into fabric. Providing both inspiration and practical know-how, it encourages you to experiment and adapt the techniques to suit your own creative vision. While some sections delve into technical explanations, these insights are intended to help you to understand and refine techniques, and even invent your own. In this sense, it’s more than a manual; it’s a resource that encourages exploration, helping you push the boundaries of textile artistry. With beautiful images and examples from accomplished designers and artists, this book is perfect for anyone passionate about fabric, whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out. Unlock a world of endless textile possibilities with this invaluable and beautifully illustrated resource!

New Fashion Boutique Design is a practical and inspirational illustrated volume that gathers examples of some of the most exclusive boutiques and stores in the world and introduces the latest trends in shop design, an area where fashion and creativity merge to deliver a unique shopping and branding experience. From luxury designer stores and exclusive boutiques to shoe shops, this comprehensive volume provides useful insights into international retail architecture and comprehensive information on the featured projects. Fashion stores are no longer mere places that one enters simply with the intention of purchasing products. Shops have also become venues for events, stages for exciting performances, and sometimes even landmarks. Likewise, retail spaces have become statements that celebrate designer labels and their products and offer multiple opportunities to engage with the brand and its values. They tell stories and communicate the philosophy, values, and responsibilities of a company. A range of these grand stages has been captured in New Shop Design, which offers ideas, solutions, and different approaches to product presentation across its 240 colorful and inspiring pages.

Illustration 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 get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What’s a fair price? How do you handle the everyday routines involved in illustration work? It explains concepts such as usage rights, collecting societies and social security insurance for artists. And, of course, it presents a wide variety of illustration techniques. In short, it makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding illustrators—for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page often inspires—and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-five most important illustration techniques in a practical way that awakens the reader’s desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles. These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all show the same thing: a bird.

Antonio Donnanno's essential men’s fashion patternmaking guide. Perfect for tailors and sewing enthusiasts, it offers step-by-step instructions and rich illustrations for creating flawless garments, from shirts to jackets and trousers.

Master contemporary style with Donnanno’s expert techniques and industry insight. In this volume on men’s clothing, part of our series on fashion patternmaking techniques by renowned author and designer Antonio Donnanno, readers will acquire the technical and stylistic knowledge they need to ensure their sartorial creations are technically flawless and stay fresh and new. After an introduction to the essential patternmaking tools, basic fabric notions, anatomy and measurement of the male body, industrial sizes and tailoring terms, the author describes in detail and step by step the making of patterns, covering a wealth of types of men’s garments for all lifestyles and circumstances: from shirts to jackets, waistcoats, trousers, knitwear and underwear. All is presented with clear and easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations which indicate the author’s long experience both as a teacher and as a consultant to international firms and pattern publishers. Aimed at professional tailors, teachers and students, sewing lovers and industrial sample makers, this new volume in the Donnanno Fashion Patternmaking series is a useful and practical tool for meeting contemporary menswear tailoring challenges and needs.

This 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 as auditoriums, airports, museums, hotels, shopping centers and offices require a good orientation system to handle and facilitate the circulation of these people, in addition to ensuring easy accessibility. Signage must achieve this objective to ensure the result is effective, intelligible to everyone and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. Matters such as scale, volume, position, colors and materials used to build the signage will be determined by the type of equipment or office while graphic communication elements will reflect and be adapted to the client’s identity. Symbols, fonts, pictograms, arrows, optical effects and other resources are used here in a multitude of surprising, suggestive and varied ways that will not fail to grab readers’ attention, presenting them with an extensive range of ideas in which to find inspiration.

Following the first volume of Fashion Draping Techniques, which focused on details such as collars, sleeves and knots, this new volume, richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, takes a step forward and moves on to complete items of clothing, such as dresses, blouses, jackets, and skirts, all explained in a detailed and easy to understand manner. Each chapter also includes suggestions about what kind of fabric to use in each piece of clothing. Draping involves working with fabric directly on the dress stand, allowing designers to bring their creations to life, adapting the style and fit as they work. The results are new styles, cuts and lines that form a new three-dimensional prototype, without the standardized restrictions of flat cut patternmaking. This gives designers an immediate idea of what their creation will look like and easily lets them decide how to move forward, through the use of toile, pins, pleats, modules, draping, craftsmanship, and boundless creativity.

This book on patternmaking for menswear provides first-class guidance on illustration, making it a handy tool for designers, students and advanced hobbyists.

In this volume on men’s clothing, part of our series on fashion patternmaking techniques by renowned author and designer Antonio Donnanno, readers will acquire the technical and stylistic knowledge they need to ensure their sartorial creations are technically flawless and stay fresh and new. After an introduction to the essential patternmaking tools, basic fabric notions, anatomy and measurement of the male body, industrial sizes and tailoring terms, the author describes in detail and step by step the making of patterns, covering a wealth of types of men’s garments for all lifestyles and circumstances: from shirts to jackets, waistcoats, trousers, knitwear and underwear. All is presented with clear and easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations which indicate the author’s long experience both as a teacher and as a consultant to international firms and pattern publishers. A special feature that makes this volume unique is the inclusion of an attached pattern sheet showing a base pattern for shirts, jackets and trousers in five sizes. Aimed at professional tailors, teachers and students, sewing lovers and industrial sample makers, this new volume in the Donnanno Fashion Patternmaking series is a useful and practical tool for meeting contemporary menswear tailoring challenges and needs. The book includes a pattern sheet with patterns for trousers, jackets and shirts in 5 sizes.

The ADG Laus Awards are Spain’s most prestigious annual prizes in graphic design and communication. They recognize the best projects from over fifty sections that are divided into five categories: Graphic Design, Digital, Advertising, Audiovisual, and Student. To celebrate the awards, this book provides a current overview of the design world’s talent, innovation, excellence, and conceptual and formal quality. This volume is divided in two parts. The first pays homage, through extensive profiles, to two icons: Enric Aguilera, the recipient of the Honorary Laus in recognition of his career in graphic design and art direction, and Camper, which won the Laus Companies & Institutions award for this global brand’s support for all aspects of design. The second part documents this year’s Grand Laus awards, which recognized some particularly extraordinary projects in the Student and Audiovisual categories. It also covers the Aporta awards, which pay tribute to projects that have an especially significant impact on society. Finally, on the other side of the book, readers will find all the winners of Laus Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards.

Both inspirational and practical, Black and White Graphics showcases the appealing impact of using monochrome color schemes in the field of graphic design, and it presents an international collection of work that makes clear the capabilities of black, white, and gray. The posters, publications, labels, corporate communications, and other projects selected show that this achromatic combination can, at the same time as keeping a project’s budget to a minimum, elevate the value of graphic design, facilitate communication, and enhance the project’s dramatic effect by limiting design elements to those which are absolutely necessary. For black is not simply black, and white is not only white. There are endless possibilities that lie between the two, within the infinite palette of grays. In fact, black and white make for a timeless combination of colors that has been a popular choice for graphic designers for years. Simple, vintage, and sometimes elegant, black and white are the colors that capture viewers’ attention by simply reducing colors to the basics and therefore leading the focus back to the visual message that a graphic design tries to express.

Draping, also known as moulage, is a fashion design technique that involves working with fabric directly on a mannequin, ‘sculpting’ the toile on a dress form. Imagination and freedom are the key principles of this process, allowing the designer to start from an idea and change it as the garment progresses. Pieces take shape inch by inch on the dress form, going directly from sketch to fabric. Using the intricate process of draping, this extensively illustrated publication is an essential step-by-step guide for students, couture connoisseurs and fashion professionals who want to delve deeper into a technique used by prestigious fashion houses around the globe. It offers everything readers need to learn about the principles of draping and to gain a solid foundation for making their own imaginative pieces without limiting their creativity.

A very useful step-by-step manual for mastering the creation of knitted garments using a knitting machine in a new updated edition.

In the world of textiles, knitted fabric is one of the most complicated materials to work with but also one of the most used. This is a book for all fashion lovers who, while fascinated by knitted fabric, have not dared to venture into this field, as well as for advanced and professional knitters who want to systematically round off their knowledge. It includes all the steps necessary to create a knitted garment, from the choice of yarn to manufacturing apparel, explaining such things as how to use a flatbed knitting machine correctly and the linking, cutting, sewing and, ultimately, ironing of knitted garments. The book not only takes into account how crucial it is to recognize and develop a stitch. It also acknowledges the importance of knowing how to represent stitches for different machines in a useful way. For the first time, the author describes the various stitches in a clear and well-structured manner with a language of symbols developed for use with all kinds of studio and domestic knitting machines regardless of the brand: Brother, Silver Reed, Passap, Coppo and Dubied. The book includes examples of working with traditional materials like wool, alpaca, cotton and linen but also encourages experimenting with paper, plastic materials and vegetal and metallic yarns to create texture, three-dimensional effects and unusual volumes.

This book is a great way to get started creating your own custom sneakers. Up your creative game as you learn quick and easy ways to turn a pair of regular trainers into one-of-a-kind works of art. 1000 inspiring sneaker designs and 18 step-by-step tutorials will help you create your own projects that reflect your personal tastes. By mastering the basics along with some design skills, you´ll soon have the tools and techniques you need to design and paint custom sneakers with style and soul. Street, pop, fluor, metal and camouflage are just some of the contemporary patterns touched on. Detailed illustrations and photographs of realized customizations that go with the texts give you an idea of what your kicks will look like after you’ve created them. The book is ideal for sneakers fans who enjoy customizing their own clothes and asserting their individuality, fashion designers who look to customized sneakers as a source of inspiration and fashion lovers in general. Take your love of sneakers to a fun new level learning how to create cool shoes that are as you unique as you are.

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that pushes novel fashion designers and students to create their own capsule collections—a fashion collection based on one single design concept. Through these creations the reader will learn the necessary elements that any collection should have and how it should be presented in a portfolio. The techniques used in the book range from watercolour to collage, as well as digital tools. Creating a collection is a process that requires much thought and organization, with different steps to be considered. First of all, it is necessary to find a concept, a theme that structures the designs of the collection and from which the creations are developed. It follows a moodboard, an inspirational collage formed by images, text and samples of materials prior to the design of the collection, which then leads to the actual drawing using the illustration technique of one’s choosing. This is a book from which aspiring fashion designers will be able to draw the inspiration and skills needed to launch their own collection by the renowned illustrator Claudia Ausonia Palazio presenting sixteen examples of capsule collections, each with a different concept and rendered using various illustration techniques. 

This handbook uncovers the rich history of handmade type and the process of letterpress printing showcasing works of international top printers and designers. A source of inspiration for type designers, letterpress enthusiasts, design students, and craft lovers. 

Letterpress, a Chinese invention from the 10th century consisting in the use of movable types and adopted in the Western Hemisphere about 1440, forever transformed communication and the way and speed at which information is spread, paving the way for the modern press. This book explores the rich history and intricate process of letterpress printing with a curated list of classic movable types arranged in style order, highlighting the beauty and craftsmanship of contemporary typography. A handbook and source of inspiration for type designers, letterpress enthusiasts, design students, and craft lovers alike, it explains the revival of classical letterpress and its widespread use with a modern aesthetics in different forms of art and design such as books, posters, customised stationary, name cards and letterheads, to name a few. Including biographies and exclusive interviews, it also introduces prominent letterpress designers, artists, type foundries, and institutions from around the world, making it a treasure trove for graphic designers, typographers, self-publishing authors, and small presses as well. The future of letterpress promises to be a long and colourful one. Readers are invited to join this fascinating revival and be inspired by the enduring charm of letterpress and handmade type.

Fabrics in Fashion is a fabric encyclopedia of textile information that contains everything there is to know about the use of fabrics in fashion design, from the history of the fabric to terminology and explanations of how the fabric will perform, feel and look. 

Intended for fashion students and fashion designers, this fabric book is indispensable for sourcing and selecting textiles for fashion. It will guide you to the perfect fabric for every design, helping you find the ideal material to achieve the desired effect and recommending different ways to use it. With a revised and updated selection of photographs from fashion shows that exemplify current fashion trends in which the collections of such renowned designers as Givenchy, Stella McCarthy, Vuitton, Vivian Westwood, van Herpen, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein appeared, the book shows you how some of the most emblematic names in fashion today use fabrics to achieve the highest expression of their creativity. This updated and enlarged edition also includes a detailed technical and historical introduction on the types of fabrics and their classification, the relationship between fabric and the fashion industry and the aesthetic, emotional, commercial and social aspects involved. Stefanella Sposito shares her in-depth technical knowledge as a trained industrial textile expert, fashion and textile designer, and Professor of History of Textiles and Textile Trade in an extensive and detailed text that teaches you what every serious fashion and textile designer needs to know to choose the appropriate fabric for every garment or design. A comprehensive fabric guide ordered by textile type with an explanation of its history, behavior, characteristics and uses, along with photographs that accompany each fabric discussed, this veritable fabric bible is sure to become essential reading for all aspiring and experienced dressmakers and fashion designers. 

Be inspired by this new, full-colour, redesigned edition featuring a vast range of fashion details for professionals and students

This redesigned and full-colour second edition by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi is an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques required to render fashion details. It contains all the knowledge required to make accurate technical drawings of all imaginable variations of collars, pleats, flounces, gathers, drapes and necklines, and it includes 4,000 original fashion drawings. This title offers an extended, topic-by-topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion plates that accurately reflect a designer’s creative vision. The volume’s breadth of information and attention to detail make this worldwide bestseller an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, artists, students and anyone who enjoys fashion design.

This publication is a perfect primer for anyone who's ever been intrigued by the Risograph, a brand of digital duplicators. Designed mainly for high-volume photocopying and printing, it is far less expensive than conventional photocopy machines, laser or ink printers. The book begins by giving readers a brief history of the Risograph while outlining the basic principles of the printing process, including the equipment, tools and materials needed to get started. Rich in illustrations, pictures, detailed instructions and infographics, it comes as the ideal guide for novice users of a Riso printer. The book also includes profiles of notable printers, examples of printed products, works from contributing print shops, information about design studios and artists from around the world. It will broaden the printing horizons of the reader and illustrate the variety of possibilities offered by this relatively easy to use and amazing technique, with the aim of inspiring them via the Riso prints of others.

Designers quoted:

AUSTRALIA: Motherbird (Melbourne). BELGIUM: Teresa Sdralevich (Brussels). CANADA: Dejan Djuric–Leo Burnett (Toronto); Marian Bantjes (Bowen Island). FRANCE: Emmanuelle (Paris); Grapheine (Paris). GERMANY: Miki And Tilmann–The Simple Society (Berlin/Tokyo). IRELAND: Daniel Gray–Us Two (Dublin). ITALY: Benetton Press Dept. (Ponzano). JAPAN: Yuta Takahashi (Tokyo). PORTUGAL: Clara Vieira–Claan (Porto); Joao Machado (Porto); Nuno Coelho (Porto). SPAIN: Isidro Ferrer (Madrid); Javier Jaen (Barcelona); Juan Mingarro–Brosmind (Barcelona); Pau Garcia–Domestic Data Streamers (Barcelona); Rafa Soto–Herraizsoto (Barcelona); This Is Umami (Barcelona); Veronica Fuerte–Hey Studio (Barcelona). SWEDEN: Fredrik Ost–Snask (Stockholm). SWITZERLAND: Cornelia Nuenlist–Walker. THE NETHERLANDS: Kesselskramer (Amsterdam). UK: Camille Walala (London); Chineasy (London); Kirstie–Visual Editions (London); Luke Whittaker–State of Play (London); Jan Eumann–Wolffolins (London, New York, San Francisco). US: Aiga Get Out The Vote (New York); Brian Gartside (New York); Bridget Teixeira–The Phluid Project (New York); Candy Chang (New York); David Carson (New York); Dear Data (New York/ London); Matt Dorfman (New York); Adam J. Kurtz (New York); Milton Glaser Studio (New York); Erika Zorzi–Mathery Studio (New York); Gosbinda Vizarretea–Sagmeister & Walsh (New York).

Masters of New Jewellery Design offers a bold and daring look at the intriguing and fascinating world of contemporary jewellery design through some of the field’s most prominent international artists and emerging new talents. They present their latest designs while reflecting upon the meaning of their work, their use of techniques and materials, their life experiences and their sources of inspiration. The result is as extensive and international as it is intimate and personal. The pages of this book show the beauty of everyday materials—paper, recycled wood or plastics, rubber, bone, charcoal—which can often be combined with other, more traditional ones but which also have their own aesthetic value. Jewellery freed itself some time ago from many of its technical constraints and it does not just use the jeweller's own methods. Rather, it has investigated the heritage of other crafts and other technologies to integrate them based on the artistic language that each creator wants to develop. The contributors include: Anastasia Young, Anthony Roussel, Beth Legg, Jacqueline Ryan (UK), Adam Grinovich (USA)

This book is an essential and practical tool for designing and creating fashion accessories for men and women. Intended for fashion students and professionals, the book includes different pattern techniques for each accessory and explains production processes so that readers can incorporate them into their professional practice, in addition to identifying and providing the information needed to recreate a wide range of accessory models. It includes descriptions of materials, examples of patterns and designs and different possible finishes through illustrations, photographs, technical drawings and texts that clearly explain the production process of each artisanal and industrial piece. As items that provide personality and originality to one’s personal style, fashion accessories have become essential to completing the “look” for each occasion. With the help of this manual, having in-depth knowledge about the creation of different pieces, from a bag to a pair of shoes to hats, gloves, ties and buttons –even clothing for dogs–, is a great way to get started in this branch of the fashion field.    

The first volume of six comprising all aspects of patternmaking for womenswear, this book is a comprehensive approach to the fundamentals of flat-pattern drafting for skirts in all their variations and forms.

This book contains the perfect method for creating skirts, explained in a simple, clear, precise, highly detailed manner. It covers the information necessary for drafting flat patterns for just about every style there is, and can easily be adapted to all skill levels. Flat-pattern drafting is the process of creating volume from a 2-D surface by outlining a pattern on paper, using specific body measurements to which ease is added according to the desired look of the garment. Developed by fashion designer and teacher Dominique Pellen after countless years of experience in the studio and in the classroom, the method for the creation and adaptation of flat patterns contained herein is suitable for a vast audience, including professionals, students and simply anyone who loves to sew. The book has already been used at professional schools and institutes, where Pellen’s method has proven to be reliable and foolproof. This expanded and updated volume on skirts is the first in a series of guides that will explore the exciting world of garment-making, a gateway that is designed to help clothiers understand and design patterns on their own.

Graphic design increasingly emphasizes a user-oriented approach that is based around communication and interaction between users and the work itself. Interactive graphics can be found in books, brochures, posters, packaging, and albums. Playful Graphics presents a selection of outstanding interactive projects produced by designers from all over the world; these works present users with rich visual experiences and enable readers to take action. Through exploring distinct techniques and forms, Playful Graphics demonstrates how this exciting area of design can influence user experiences and bring fun to life. It is a celebration of great design ideas that convey their messages through hands-on play.

The art of protest through an impressive collection of 400 downloadable copyright-free images with politically and socially engaged content that can be used in T-shirts, posters, fanzines, stationery, and many other supports. Presenting complex ideas in a straight to the point way, these images make us reflect on the contradictions of this world. Accompanied by thought-provoking texts, these street art images are a reaction to issues such as racism, drugs, terrorism, inequality, poverty, war, destruction, life and death, freedom, war and peace, smoking, and animal rights, among others. This brilliant work not only raises important questions about today’s society in general but is also a superb illustration of pure graphic design with a political conscience. It is an ideal working tool and reference for professionals and students, or anyone with a keen interest in visual culture and communication. With a foreword by Liz McQuiston and texts by Steven Heller, Bettina Richter, Avram Finkelstein, Sarah Corbett, Fons Hickmann, Lincoln Cushing, King ADZ, and others.

Draping 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 rigid role than patterns and drawings on paper do. This publication is a practical step by step guide for students and fashion professionals who want to delve deeper into this technique used by big industry names such as Issey Miyake, Margela, Thierry Mugler, Iris van Herpen and many others. Focusing on a range of subjects, from the required tools and different examples of designs to the steps to be followed in creating jackets, skirts and dresses as well as more specific details, this book offers everything that readers need to learn the principles of draping step by step and have a solid basis for making their own creations without limiting their creativity.

Display Art features examples of ground-breaking visual merchandising and window displays in some of the world's most glamorous shops of brands like Cartier, Clarks, Dior, Hermès, Karl Lagerfield, Lacoste, Mulberry, Nike, Sotherby's and UNIQLO, straight from the creative minds of art directors, graphic designers and window display designers.

Visual merchandising can inspire consumers to interact with products, set a brand apart from its competitors, foster brand preference, and encourage purchases. This book highlights the relationship between brands, consumers, products and the display environment, by way of examples of story-telling visual displays from some of the world's most glamorous fashion emporia, such as Hermès, Karl Lagerfeld, Cartier and Fendi, but also small outlets, department stores, museums and bookshops. The projects included in this volume showcase a wide array of ideas by renowned graphic design agencies and boutique designers that have been successfully put into practice, focusing on aspects such as structure, texture, lighting design, custom lettering, amusing illustrations, delicate paper crafting, and installations made of multiple materials such as wood, steel, fabric or rubber. All these displays are characterized by alluring artwork that appeals to the senses and instincts of consumers and passers-by. An impressive selection that showcases extremely sophisticated projects but also simple, minimal and highly creative window displays, this book is the perfect inspirational guide for art directors, visual merchandisers and fashion professionals.

Brands included: Adidas, Aïshti, Alko, Booma Group, Cartier, Chloé, Coach, COS, Debenhams, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Fortnum & Mason, Hackett, Harmay, Hermès, UNIQLO, Issey Miyake, John Lewis, Joseph Fashion, Karen Miller, Karl Lagerfeld, Kiko Milano, Lacoste, LaGalleria, Le Bon Marché, Liberty, Mulberry, Nordiska, Oasis, Printemps, Q25, RIBA, Seibu Shibuya, Selfridges, Tate Modern, Topshop.

The third book from this series on illustration and design focuses on the most popular accessories: shoes, handbags, hats, belts, gloves and glasses. Brilliantly illustrated by Manuela Brambatti, a key member of the Gianni Versace fashion house for nearly thirty years, and co-authored by the designer Fabio Menconi (senior designer for Escada and Armani, among others), the book guides readers through the fashion world’s most iconic accessories, and it features practical information and technical advice on how to draw them to achieve a desired result. From creating a basic drawing to using colour, the way in which techniques are presented seeks to encourage readers to try out what they have learned. The publication provides detailed information on how to capture different materials, surfaces and decorations—for example, skin, natural fibres, wool and prints—and it includes sections that provide tips on where to look for inspiration. It also offers examples of transformations in designs and reviews the historical development of accessories. In short, this is a comprehensive, structured and systematic volume that will serve professionals, students and anyone who wants to venture into designing and illustrating fashion accessories.

After decades of using software as their exclusive work tool, graphic designers today are rediscovering the creative and expressive power of handmade characters: lettering has distinctive visual impact and provides endless possibilities for the expression of ideas through a more artful use of type, texture and volume. This results in personal, timeless ‘works of art’ and a richer aesthetic experience.

This publication, now in paperback, brings together a wide range of custom lettering projects produced by graphic designers and typographers from around the world. It focuses on the design and creation processes and on the application of lettering projects on different supports, such as billboards, public walls, invitations, and menus, serving as decoration or part of a branding system. Discover this versatile art form with this unique book.

New and redesigned edition of this worldwide bestseller.

This completely newly redesigned and updated long-selling manual offers a comprehensive guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion drawings that accurately reflect a designer’s creative vision. It includes male human figure drawings, male fashion figurines, colouring styles and techniques, as well as design and representation of fabrics. The best-selling authors, Elizabetta Drudi and Tiziana Paci, have decades of experience in the fashion industry and have created an invaluable resource for designers, and illustrators.

Now in paperback, Duotone explores the possibilities and applications of two-color printing technique, which uses either two shades of the same color, black and one tint, or two different colors. This method brings out middle tones and highlights, and its results are vibrant, colorful and stunning, generating maximum expressivity while minimizing production costs. The wide selection of projects in the book covers different design categories, from logos, brochures, posters, packaging materials, book covers, posters and exhibition materials to screen designs for corporate websites and promotional microsites. The variety of designs reveals the magic of duotone techniques and how designers and artists make full use of its possibilities to create dramatic and dynamic compositions. Duotone is the next big trend in graphic design. It enhances readability, makes the most of minimalist designs without overwhelming the eye, and is the perfect way to effortlessly create unforgettable atmospheres.

A comprehensive guide to constructing all kinds of bags including handmade technical drawing and digital patternmaking.

This comprehensive guide to handbag patternmaking, intended for professionals, skilled hobbyists and students, bridges the gap between craftsmanship and innovative technical developments, including digital patternmaking. This isn’t just another patternmaking manual: it’s the script that both authors would like to have had when they had doubts about construction techniques while learning the profession, equipping readers with the tools they need to tackle an array of concepts independently. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors provide an easy to work with notebook-like resource that groups together different construction techniques, providing concise explanations, ensuring that readers gain a deeper understanding of construction methods and understand basic construction principles. 

Divided into two parts, the manual explores first the working process of bag patternmakers and their skills. It then explains the anatomy of bags and characteristics of the most popular models, introduces into the reading of style cards and technical drawings, to the signs to be included both in a paper as in a digital pattern to compile all information necessary to make a bag. This will help readers with the second part, as the book guides them through the main construction techniques for each type of bag, explaining sides, handles, flaps, linings and bottoms in meticulous detail giving tips for a correct realization. Unique in its field, this book is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about or seeking professional growth in this evolving field. Let these experienced bag designers and makers be your companions on this amazing journey, offering guidance and a wealth of answers to your questions as you unlock your full potential in the art of making handbags of all shapes and sizes.