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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 must-have reference work written in four languages for fashion students, designers, and enthusiasts. With over 2,000 entries and 1,500 illustrations, a comprehensive guide to fashion terms, organized by garment type from classic to contemporary aimed at professionals and newcomers alike.

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Fashion an indispensable resource for fashion students, designers, and enthusiasts. Accessible and informative, this comprehensive volume is written in four languages, enabling readers to navigate different concepts and worlds of fashion across various countries, as well as to make sense of garment descriptions in other languages. It features over 2,000 entries and 1,500 technical illustrations, meticulously cataloguing the common terms in fashion design. Organized by garment type, from classic styles to contemporary innovations, it serves as both a practical tool and offers creative pointers. Each detailed entry covers elements such as necklines, pockets, and sleeves, with an extensive appendix for more detailed study. 

Ideal for both seasoned professionals and newcomers, this dictionary not only expands fashion vocabulary but also sparks ideas for new designs and reinterpretations of established styles. Its clear layout and precise, technical illustrations make complex concepts easy to understand, enhancing the reader’s knowledge of fashion’s intricate language and techniques. Whether refining your skills in fashion design or expanding your sartorial knowledge, this book is the ultimate reference guide for anyone passionate about fashion.

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!

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.

In the information explosion age, where there is a shift from static printed information to digital media, designs that can convey information faster, more convincingly and, thanks to mobile phones, ubiquitously, are likely to gain the public’s favor. As a result, graphic designers are increasingly including animation in their work to enhance their storytelling, making it more functional on the one hand and livelier on the other, increasing interest by appealing to people’s emotions and desire to be entertained. This book showcases the current state of motion graphics in light of new media such as touch, mobile, outdoor and digital video media. Divided into three chapters, it first posits how a “rethinking” of motion graphics is essential in the context of new media to ensure that graphic design remains dynamic and able to engage people in both an appealing and informative way. The second chapter consists of exclusive interviews with animation designers who discuss the nature of contemporary animated graphics and their work, while the final chapter includes selected projects from across the world. Featuring the newest ideas and work of the world’s most advanced designers, the book is a valuable source of inspiration and information for professional graphic designers and students.

Best examples and uses of typography in motion for the digital environment.

Typography for the Screen features a wealth of creative typography projects for the digital screen, such as motion graphics, webpage design, and conceptual experiments, and explores typographic application in visual and information hierarchies within the digital screen environment. Exclusive interviews with designers and design studios integrate different knowledge and design philosophies, constituting a true source of inspiration for designers and students. It includes QR codes with links to the designers' videos and webpages with examples of the fonts they use.

Beyond Fashion provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the world of fashion, a universe that is as fascinating and creative as it is inextricably linked to commercial, psychological and social canons.

This thoroughly-illustrated volume covers all elements of the fashion business beyond clothing, from the commercial to psychological and sociological aspects of the industry. Branding, marketing, retailing, merchandising and business identity, style, the eternal pursuit of beauty, and the search for personal expression are the fundamental aspects of an industry which has evolved to become one of the most sophisticated, influential and dynamic sectors in the world. The implications are not just economic: what we wear conveys who we are. Clothes and accessories are the bearers of complex psychological and social canons, they are aesthetic products, means of self-definition and objects of desire. Complementary to the evolution of fashion itself, hand-in-hand with changes in taste throughout history, the practice of shopping has undergone epic transformations, becoming a daily activity, an integral part of everyday life. So, which elements are involved in the creation of this 'desire'? What are the ingredients of fashion alchemy? This book reveals these and many more secrets of the fashion business.

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 creative world and visual work of award winning illustrator and designer Isidro Ferrer in an exceptional book.

This generously illustrated book explores the art of creative thinking through the visual work, writings and experiences of world-renowned Spanish graphic designer and illustrator Isidro Ferrer. Readers will find examples of his extensive work, the most recognizable and the most unknown, and insights into the personality and creative processes of this multifaceted artist. Structured around different concepts such as farce, disorder, wandering and time, the book includes descriptive texts that portray the artist's vision of his work as a creator as well as a series of brief, vivid texts that illustrate how, over the years, the artist has put his theories and beliefs about such notions as the nature of time, memory and language into practice.

Isidro Ferrer began his career as a trained actor and set designer before devoting himself to graphic design and illustration. As a result, throughout his career theater posters have always played a central role in his creative work, in addition to puppets, illustrations of everyday objects and animated films. He has published dozens of picture books for children and adults and produced hundreds of posters, fragile objects, large facades, sculptures, textiles, brand images and lamps during an illustrious career in which he has used a variety of mediums, techniques and communication channels to express in images his passion for the theatre of life. He is regularly invited to teach design and illustration workshops all over the world. He is the winner of the 2002 Spanish National Design Award and the 2006 Spanish National Illustration Award, and is an avid traveller. 

This book, the second volume of the previous successful title Eat & Go, showcase the most recent, innovative and successful graphic design and brand identity international projects for cafés, restaurants, bars, dessert shops and bakeries. 

In today’s information-saturated world, food and drink establishments need not only to offer high-quality products, but also a unique visual identity, graphic design that stands out from the rest and good communication ideas. For these companies, unique branding starts with basic elements such as a logo, slogan, font, and colour scheme, and is finally reflected in the product, packaging and related design. This book focuses on graphic design, showing how the unique visual identity of the food industry can help companies attract consumers and achieve success, providing inspiration for graphic and shop designers and entrepreneurs in this area of business. It includes case studies and a wealth of examples.

The ultimate beginner’s guide to creating a versatile capsule wardrobe, featuring seven basic patterns, detailed instructions, and video tutorials to help you craft timeless garments that seamlessly mix and match for endless stylish looks

Discover the art of creating your own capsule wardrobe with Sewing Magic, the ultimate guide for beginners by sewing influencer Masha Rossa. With over 63,000 Instagram followers, Masha brings her expertise to this comprehensive manual, designed to help you craft versatile and timeless garments. The book introduces the concept of a capsule wardrobe, focusing on selecting fabrics and colors that seamlessly combine to create interchangeable pieces and countless individual looks. The book includes seven essential wardrobe staples—skirt, tank top, blouse, trousers, shirt, jacket, and bag—and the patterns to create them, each in US sizes 6 to 14, with detailed photographs, step-by-step instructions and QR codes to access video tutorials, ensuring that every step is accessible, even for beginners. Start with simple projects like the skirt and progress to more complex pieces like the jacket, mastering essential techniques along the way to create a minimalist collection of easy-to-make garments with a dynamic and carefully selected color palette which can be combined in all sorts of ways. In Sewing Magic, Masha shares the knowledge she has gathered from years of practice and study, ensuring even beginners can make and wear their first garments with pride. Each pattern is a learning experience, designed to inspire and support your skill development and creative journey. Begin your sewing journey today and transform your wardrobe with Sewing Magic!

Gouache, a classic painting and drawing technique used by Turner, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Gris, Braque, Matisse and Miró, among many others, acquires in this volume a new dimension by offering a bolder approach for contemporary artists, illustrators, graphic designers and amateurs. Award-winning illustrator and art teacher Aljoscha Blau shares his many years of experience, offers material recommendations, tips for swift success, suggestions on composition, use of colour, tools and processes. And he spices it all up with his own illustrations, which are both an incentive and a feast for the eyes. By means of entertaining texts and step-by-step illustrations, Blau lays out a safe and fascinating road to success for anyone willing to improve their technique or for those who want to try it for the first time.

Both a practical and inspirational book filled with color combinations for any design and illustration project.

The use of color and its combinations creatively in illustration, graphic and product design also implies understanding what emotions they convey and how they affect our design and illustrations. We must also consider that color is also perceived differently in different countries and cultures. All this is widely explained in this second book in the Palette Perfect series, illustrated with projects by renowned international illustrators and designers, and organized by colors (identified with CMYK, RGB and HEX codes) and moods associated with the time of day. Diverging from the traditional segmentation of the color wheel, the book is divided into 24 chapters, each one being an hour of the day. This separation is represented visually by assigning a color to each hour, based on the usual daylight, temperature, mood and activities of that time, in the temperate climate zone. For example, the first chapters are the first hours of the morning, where the sky and the overall light is present but less intense. Around 1 pm the temperature is usually hotter, therefore represented with warmer colors (yellow and red); after midnight, the focus is put on activities that could be done at that time, like the neon lights of nightclubs. Based on real examples drawn from graphic, product and illustration, different innovative combinations and palettes are shown for each color and the meaning it conveys. Intended for graphic designers, design students, fashion and interior decoration lovers, and all those interested in exciting and unexpected color combinations that work.

This book on watercolour techniques helps readers to learn to paint with watercolours from scratch and step by step. Inspired to paint by long walks along the seashore, the beauty of coastal landscapes and by the photographs taken during these journeys or found in journals and magazines, the author decided to leave her job in the fashion industry and devote herself completely to acquiring an in-depth knowledge of watercolour techniques to express her deep love of nature. The present book is a result of the author’s many painting experiments and her teaching experience. First, the book introduces the reader to painting tools, such as different paper and brush types; then the author describes, step-by-step and in detail, all the rich effects that can be achieved thanks to the specific characteristics of watercolours. She then moves on to the basics of composition and perspective, how to establish the correct proportions, rhythm, and a relationship and equilibrium between the different parts of an image. In the last part the author shows in all variations how to work on different motifs, including stones above and below the water and boats, waves and foam, the sky and the different kinds of clouds. After a wealth of technical tips, the author offers practical recommendations, for example, the importance of having a small dedicated space, always ready with materials to begin to paint when you want it; drawing every day even if it’s just for a short time; and setting a timer for 10 minutes, practicing time-limited sketches. At the end the author recognizes that her development required patient yet playful repetition and the ability to see mistakes as a chance to learn more, while carefully observing how more experienced artists paint, to learn from them. After acquiring the essential knowledge and techniques the book offers, readers will most certainly begin to develop their own personal style, getting more and more pleasure immersing themselves in the magical world of watercolours.

The main task for modern product designers is how to combine creativity and functionality. The title showcases different types of products and industrial designs for the household and personal use, introducing projects from all over the world, including innovative furniture, lighting and accessories ranging from baskets to bookshelves, carpets, vases, stationary, and many more. Each featured object includes product descriptions, photographs and designers' sketches showing the design processes, as well as the materials used, a brief explanation of how the product was made, and an observation about specific creative design features that make the product unique. 

Like other publications by Wang Shaoqiang, the book features the latest designs from design studios across the world to which the author has access as editor of the prestigious Design 360º magazine. While most books about product design are structured like a textbook and explain how to design or deconstruct designs to better understand the processes involved, almost none provide a comprehensive overview of current design trends, instead offering a summary of modernist design history or the best designs from 1945 until the present. New Product Design is an exception to the rule. Through a wide range of stylistically and aesthetically bold designs, the book emphasizes the essential interaction between humans and objects. For without humans, we are told, objects are useless, empty and, ultimately, meaningless. And for an object to have meaning, we must interact act with it, use it, or, in the case of visually pleasing objects, react to them. In the pages of this book, the reader will encounter many daring examples of product design and products that interact with users in a multitude of ways, with the power to inspire new thoughts and ideas.

Experiment this new, intuitive approach to watercolour without using any preliminary drawings to paint directly with a brush with this on-the-go workshop and its more than fifty progressive exercises.

This book is an excellent tool for learning to sketch on location. Through the "no drawing first" technique, readers will learn to use only watercolour and a brush to draw in notebooks, make quick urban sketches, keep visual journals and create compelling outdoor urban work. Designed like a workshop on the go, with more than fifty progressive exercises, this book invites you to experiment with watercolour by translating space and movement through shapes and color into masses and values rather than contours and strict rules of perspective. The author, a theatrical scenic painter, urban sketcher and urban sketching teacher, shows you how to represent the world around us. She encourages the reader to observe the place, to understand it, to learn how to choose the subject when capturing the place’s soul, preserving the sense of the fleetingness of the instant described. The themes include vegetation, buildings and forms of people in movement.

An insight about essential writing techniques, tools and materials as well as important dos and don’ts when delving into calligraphy.

Fall in love with copperplate calligraphy while expanding your creative repertoire with this practical, easy-to-follow and comprehensive guide. The magic of copperplate calligraphy is that it is based on a few elementary forms and a few important rules. All you need to get started are pen, ink and suitable paper, and with practice you will soon be able to design and print your own invitations, business cards and much more. Each chapter contains one or more tutorials filled with useful tips on how to get as much out of the content as possible while having fun. Everything is explained from the very start, in detail and in a step-by-step way, so no previous knowledge is required. On the other hand, if you have some experience with calligraphy, the book will serve as a great resource for building on those skills while experimenting with copperplate calligraphy’s typical flourishes and decorative elements. The author, renowned German calligrapher Stefanie Weigele, who specializes in classic pointed pen calligraphy, shares her insight about essential tools and materials as well as important dos and don’ts that help you master the methods and techniques being taught quickly and effectively. The book includes downloadable exercise sheets and grids that make it easy for you to put your newly learned skills into immediate practice.

A step-by-step guide that teaches beginners and aspiring artists how to use lines and shapes to bring animals to life,including 50 models covering anatomy, proportions, and shading

Part of a well-known book series on contemporary art jewelry by jeweler Nicolás Estrada, this completely new edition of New Earrings (not a single piece from the 2013 edition has been included) highlights the work of some of the most exciting and innovative international jewelry artists working today. The more than 550 pieces featured by 198 jewelers from all over the world break away from the traditional notion of jewelry making to stake out new terrain. They represent a variety of creative approaches and methods, from more traditional to strikingly avant-garde creations, that speak and inspire, embodying all the ingenuity, flair, eloquence, sensitivity and individual freedom of their diverse creators. Some of the earrings are made using unconventional materials like porcelain or plastic while others use classical materials such as gold in ways that provocatively go against the grain of convention, reflecting the artist’s personal identity and tastes or containing a subtle commentary on contemporary concerns. Aimed at students, professionals and jewelry lovers, this second edition of the book published in 2013, has a new layout and concludes with a brief description of the careers and webpages of the featured artists.

This book presents tattoos in Japan with all their astounding richness and sophistication. The history of this unique folk art, its meaning, social background, and evolution as well as a collection of rare interviews with master tattooists made over the past thirty years.

In the world of tattoo art, few traditions can rival the elaborate and refined artistry of Japanese tattoos. In this richly illustrated book, The Japanese Tattoo, by the French historian and journalist who specialises in Japan and Korea Phillipe Pons, readers will find a wealth of detailed information about the history of this unique folk art, its relation to literature and art plus great colour photographs of their work. Remarkable for the richness of their iconography, the balance of their compositions, and their refinement in details, Japanese tattoos have seduced since the fifteenth century Western travellers, merchants and later, in the 18th and 19th century sailors, soldiers, eccentrics and artists such as Degas, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Yet, despite its cultural significance and aesthetic beauty, while recognised worldwide, tattoos don’t share in Japan itself the status and official recognition and support of other traditional art forms such as ‘the way of tea’, the flower arrangement (Ikebana), or Kabuki theatre. The book explains why and shows the historical influence of Japanese tattooing on the worldwide tattoo community and its integration into the modern global cultural landscape. Readers will learn about the shift from ‘brocade skins’ covering the entire body to the current Japanese tattoo renaissance where ‘one-point’ tattoos are favoured by young people which combine ancient motifs and anime, to the point where traditionalists are wondering if the ‘tattoo’ is losing its authenticity. With over 270 illustrations, this book is a powerful tribute to the artistry, skill, and enduring charm of Japanese tattooing. Perfect for tattoo enthusiasts, this comprehensive and visually stunning book is a must-have also for East Asian art lovers and those with an appreciation for cultural traditions. 

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 presents the work of 100 leading international interior designers—some established professionals, others young and promising creative talents—and 1,000 ideas and tips on interior design. By introducing readers to these designers and their most important works in the field of interior architecture for homes, this volume serves as an inspiring sample of the best-designed contemporary domestic spaces. Interior design: 100 designers, 1,000 ideas also offers easy-to-apply tips and ideas provided by the designers featured in the book in order to promote more precise and better-designed interiors. This volume provides the perfect opportunity to get to know the most renowned professionals from this field and to discover today's emerging designers.

This book is a practical manual intended specifically for anyone interested in delving into the technique of granting color to fashion figurine illustrations to give them more life and expressiveness. In a clear and educational way, Tiziana Paci, author of the well-known book Figure Drawing for Fashion Design, explains in detail the different themes examined in the work through images and examples along with concise and to-the-point texts ideal for neophytes as well as people who have been working in this field for years. The book is divided into the following chapters: poses, color and color combinations, watercolor technique, tools such as professional markers, colored pencil and water-soluble graphite, digital techniques and mixed techniques. Together, these suggestions allow both beginner and professional illustrators to depict figurines in vivid poses with incredible effects including the imitation of any type of material: leather, jewellery, bright fabrics and transparencies, and many more, following very different styles.  

Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. Spanning from the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, this enlarged and updated edition analyses the importance and meaning of fashion via an in-depth approach and a rich selection of illustrations and photographs. It contains interpretative sketches and drawings of the clothes that feature in paintings and works of art to provide an overall perspective on and a comprehensive understanding of fashion. The lavish visuals, which many other titles in this field lack, truly bring the topic to life. In this book, the reader will discover the beauty and mystery of fashion throughout the ages, the roles it has played in society and the creativity and inventive power it has held throughout history.

The first volume in this two-part series provides a step-by-step guide to the fundamental aspects of the graphic representation of a wide range of jewellery pieces, from the simplest to the most complex forms. Different volumes, spaces, surfaces and finishes are explained in detail, as are methods for depicting different materials, from timeless metals and precious stones to substances such as celluloid and bakelite.

The objective of this book is not to showcase completed jewellery pieces. Instead, it aims to provide readers with the tools needed to be able to accurately convey their ideas and master use of colour, as well as to draw different facets and effects such as brilliance, transparency and opacity. It does so by explaining a variety of illustration techniques involving pencils, markers, pastels, tempera and computer rendering.

Tired of wearing the same clothes? How about revamping your wardrobe with new custom made clothes? This is a practical sewing manual that shows all the steps for making skirts and trousers, from the basics, like different hand stitches and using a sewing machine, to taking measurements and understanding patterns, all explained with detailed illustrations and photographs for each step. The results are original garments, handmade by you and made to measure. The book includes everything you must know to get started; no previous sewing experience is needed, but you will be amazed of what you can achieve: a wealth of different types of skirts –straight, curled at the waist, classic, mini, flared, balloon, mermaid, asymmetric and more– and trousers –with or without pockets, classic, skinny-fit, low-waist, and many more.

In the world of textiles, knitted fabric is one of the most complicated to work with, but also one of the most commonly used. This is a book for all those fashion lovers who, although fascinated by knitted fabric, have never yet dared to venture into this field and for those advanced and professional knitters who want to systematically round off their knowledge.   It includes all the steps necessary to realize a knitted garment, from the choice of yarn to manufacturing apparel, explaining how to use a knitting machine correctly, the linking, cutting, sewing, and, last but not least, ironing of knitted garments. All this taking into account that knowing how to recognize and develop a stitch is crucial, but that it is increasingly important to know how to represent stitches for different machines in a useful way. So, for the first time, the author describes the various stitches in a clear and well-structured manner with a language of symbols developed to be used for 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 or linen, but also encourages experiments with paper, plastic materials, vegetal and metallic yarns, to create sculptures, reliefs and three-dimensional effects.

An insight on the world of sustainable fashion: alternative ways of production, eco-friendly and reused materials and practical care advice for garments.

The planet has come to a critical situation and it is up to all of us to innovate and drive change in all aspects of life, and fashion definitely is no exception. The fashion industry and its procedures are changing rapidly thanks to the visionary mindset of innovators, their business perspectives, the renewal of industrial processes, and a reconsideration of existing values. More and more customers are demanding that the clothes they buy to be socially and environmentally aware: no child labor, minimum or zero impact on the planet, and safe working conditions are the basis of the sustainable values that customers are expecting from fashion companies. This book provides all the necessary insight for designers, fashion companies, retailers, and consumers that want to become more sustainability conscious. It includes a comprehensive overview of the current actions taken by pioneering designers and brands and how they are integrating basic sustainable principles, and eco-friendly and reused materials, to create a new generation of fashion products, including information on different fabric types, alternative production types, reuse and practical care advice for the garments.

A collection of greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards that have been either made by hand or produced with the most avant-garde computer- design techniques. Nine seconds is the current estimate of the amount of time that it takes to captivate the eye. In our information-saturated world, in which email has monopolized personal communication, handmade greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards offer an element of exclusive value and a unique charm, bringing together imagination, real texture, and a wide variety of design techniques. This publication focuses on the latest creative card designs produced by innovative design studios and artists throughout the world. The ideas showcased in its three hundred pages range from handmade cards that elude conventional printing processes to the most avant-garde computer-designed offerings. The book shows the creative processes and techniques used in each project and analyses the key elements of their success. This book is a great source of inspiration for those eager to break boundaries and go one step further with their creativity and imagination.

High fashion unquestionably goes hand-in-hand with sartorial and stylistic perfection. A driving force behind the entire fashion and garment industry, it represents the search for new solutions concerning fabrics, style or patterns. In this context, the patternmaker is an essential figure who makes the stylist’s ideas a reality. In our richly illustrated new volume from the Fashion Patternmaking series, the prolific author Antonio Donnanno, the director of a network of fashion schools and a patternmaking teacher who comes from a long line of tailors, describes the methods and techniques used in high-fashion for making drapes, frills and flounces, collars, necklines and sleeves, and high-fashion trousers and skirts in a detailed, understandable and step-by-step way.

Fiesta: The Branding and Identity of Festivals is a compilation of remarkable branding designs and campaigns for a variety of renowned festivals from around the world. The festivals examined span the worlds of music, cinema, design, gastronomy, culture, and art. The identity and communication campaign strategies deployed by festivals encompass an endless array of design techniques, from graphic elements such as logos, posters, web pages, advertisements, mobile apps, tickets, and wristbands to collectible items like T-shirts, bags, and cups. This volume will inspire and serve as a useful tool for graphic designers and branding agencies that seek to handle challenging and wide-ranging festival projects with the highest degree of creativity and imagination, as well as for festival organizers and anyone interested in visual culture in general. The events featured, which include Flow Festival, Green Film Fest, ADC Awards, Forward Design Festival, and Barcelona Design Week, show that the success of a festival has a close connection to its tailor-made branding and design and that no matter what the subject of the festival is, it is essential to have a coherent identity strategy.

An outstanding showcase of highly graphic vintage pen and ink illustrations of the famous visual artist Joan Escandell, this book draws on classic styles from various eras, evoking their particular atmospheres with an intriguing modern twist. Escandell contributed to Disney’s Cinderella, The Lion King, Hercules, and Pocahontas.

Designers and students structure their portfolios following their instincts and according to their own professional development. A portfolio principally contains print designs, which are used to plan, organise and document the designer’s personal experience, work samples and skills. These selections are collective representations, through which designers seek to highlight their best accomplishments for the purposes of appreciation and promotion. This is precisely the object of this unique book: to present a selection of samples of the best works by young designers from all over the world. Fresh, inventive and full of original and ground-breaking ideas that use new materials and experimental techniques, Portfolio Design aims to offer not only visual delights but also invaluable references and solutions for those who are looking for inspiration in producing an eye-catching portfolio of their own.

Set Design For Printed Matter explores the endless possibilities and powerful impact of using the materials and techniques of set design in graphic design projects. From editorial projects, posters, and flyers to illustrations for magazines or advertising campaigns, this inspirational volume features a variety of playful international projects by the most respected professionals in the field. The works featured are sure to inspire graphic designers to conceptualize, create, and innovate. In an era of ubiquitous digital images, handmade designs carry unexpected force and creativity. Set design is more than prop building; it is a combination of craftsmanship, creativity, and styling in which textures, colors, and shapes all play a part in creating an image that conventional graphic design techniques simply cannot achieve. Going behind the scenes of the design process, this book examines creative and strategic elements of set design such as handmade craftsmanship and 3D graphics. By deploying complex paper techniques and materials as well as an infinite variety of objects, the results create a world in which imagination and reality overlap unexpectedly. This title is the paperback version of Scenographics.

Minimalism emphasizes extreme simplicity of form. By reducing the number of graphic elements, the strength of each element is enhanced. Or, as Mies van der Rohe famously said, “Less is more.” Known for their simple and unassuming rules, the Nordic and Japanese design schools are the most outstanding representatives of this trend, which is being embraced by more and more graphic designers in their creative fields, be it branding, editorial, communication and packaging. Simplicity collects over a hundred works by graphic designers from all over the world who apply minimalism in their works to infuse them with an elegant simplicity and a clean style. This volume aims to be an indispensable guidebook for designers who are looking for new modes of expression, and an enjoyable and engaging read for those who wish to learn more about the beauty of all things simple.

In jewelry, the new consumer trends are demanding products that are crafted, personal, and created with respect to the environment. This implies a sustainability strategy that takes into account the entire supply chain, from the extraction of metals to the packaging materials. Sustainable Jewellery contains all the aspects that are necessary to know in order to start the path towards sustainability in the jewelry business, from the traceability of gems and metals, to the impact of the processes of purification, smelting, polishing, etc., and the ways to work with certified materials. The book includes case studies and interviews with international designers and firms who started the challenge of creating jewelry from an ethical and responsible perspective. With an introduction written by the jeweller and activist Greg Valerio, this book is a unique and essential guide for all those designers who want to bring their jewelry firm to a way that is ethical and respectful of the environment.

The term ephemeral is faithfully illustrative of our times. However, constructions with a limited lifespan have been a constant in the history of architecture. Research of materials and, above all, the evolution of design; have made this discipline an essential area of study for scholars and authorities alike. Ephemeral Architecture offers a wide and also rigorous selection of the best contemporary projects by some of the most daring and innovative architecture studios. The spectacular projects contained in these pages are profusely illustrated and thoroughly documented with drafts, scale and layout drawings, illustrations, renderings and photographs. The book is divided into content blocks that will allow the reader to enjoy the most innovative interventions, be they pavilions, art installations, interactive constructions, stands and finally, award winning projects within the field of temporary architecture. The projects include Anna Prats, Joan Valls (ES); Anupama Kundoo Architects, Iaac (IN/ES); Atelier Zündel Cristea (FR); Ball-Nogues Studio (USA/CA); Barkow Leibinger Architects (DE); Benedetta Tagiabue + Embt, Àlex Ollé + Institut Del Teatre (ES); Brut Deluxe (ES); Bureau A (CH); Coda-Office (ES); Dondecabentres (ES); Dus Architects (NL); Eth Zurich, Urban-Think Tank, Esarq / Uic (CH/ES); Grafton Architects, Elisava / Upf (UK/ES); Heri&Salli (AT); Hollwich Kushner (US/NY); J. Mayer H. Und Partner Architekten (DE); Jakob + Macfarlane (FR); Jakob + Macfarlane (FR); Likearchitects (PT); Marina Fernández Ramos, Asociación Cultural Y Juvenil La Chorrera (ES); Odile Decq,- Recetas Colectivas (FR/ES); Studio Myerscough (UK); Studio Myerscough (UK); Urbanus, La Salle / Url (CN/ES); Variable Projects (US/CA); Xevi Bayona (ES); Yael Reisner, Peter Cook, Straddle 3 (IS/UK/ES).

This unchanged hardback edition of our richly illustrated publication walks the reader through the different aspects of printed textile design as a process and a profession. The intention of this book is to present an overall panorama of the world of printed textile design. The authors—both design school teachers responsible for textile design training at the prestigious fashion, textile and luxury goods design school, Françoise Conte (Paris, France)—describe the areas of activity and involvement of the textile designer to help the reader understand the ins and outs of the profession, especially within the fashion and the home sector. They pay special attention to current tendencies and offer an excellent insight on how to interpret trends, which is essential for making a living in this profession. The book also includes a presentation of the stages of project design, creation and execution.The featured projects provide the reader with outstanding explanatory case studies and exercises in every chapter. This textbook is a key aid for design teachers, students and young professionals. It also includes a highly useful list of schools, professional publications and organizations.

The delightful patterns collected in this book, which have been created by talented designers from all over the world, are inspired by botanic shapes, the animal kingdom, geometry or abstract forms. The book presents the work of fifty designers who specialize in the field, and it includes interviews in which a selection of professionals share their design philosophy and work process. It focuses especially on home interiors, textiles, wallpaper, home accessories and fashion. Whether they are vibrant blooms or dazzling triangles, and whether they have a clean Scandinavian air or a delicate Japanese touch, the irresistible designs contained in this collection will offer the reader endless delight and heaps of inspiration for decoration and fashion fans and professionals.

Bracelets are the focus of this latest instalment of Nicolás Estrada’s series on contemporary jewellery. This book confirms that auteur jewellery is currently flourishing. This collection of bracelets that come from all over the world and showcase totally different styles will surprise readers with its freshness, diversity (with plenty of materials and approaches, such as classic gold, silver and precious stones, as well as paper, wood, plastic and resins) and colourfulness. This is a comprehensive selection of what is happening in the world of auteur jewellery right now and is part of our ongoing series which constitutes an overview on contemporary jewellery.

Display Art features examples of visual merchandising and window design by art directors, graphic and window designers across the globe, in an impressive selection that showcases sophisticated projects and also also simple, minimal and highly creative window displays. 

The works included in this volume offer successful ideas concerning aspects such as lighting design, structures, custom lettering, amusing illustrations, delicate paper crafting, textures, or installations made of multi-materials such as wood, steel, fabric, or rubber.

In all cases, they have resulted in alluring artwork that appeals to the senses - and instincts!- of consumers and passers-by. This book is the perfect inspirational guide for art directors, visual merchandising dsigners and fashion professionals.

This book reveals graphic compositions from the real world as they are seen through the cameras of some of the best international photographers. Their trained eyes know how not to miss colors, textures, compositions and shapes that bring inspiration to designers, artists and professional creatives. The stunning photographs contained in this book share, in the wide diversity of their perspectives, the communicative quality, clear vision and strong aesthetic concepts of objects and compositions that we may miss in our daily lives as we rush through our day. With these images, photographers invite us to enter their world and share what they see, hear and feel through their lens. The book contains exclusive interviews with these talents in which they share professional tips and the ideas they employ in their photographic practice. This is a gorgeous and inspiring guide book for all readers interested in graphic design, photography and visual communication.

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.

A visually mesmerizing book that celebrates the wide range and intensity of Jose Cisneros’s artistry.

Jesús Cisneros is a celebrated international illustrator whose work is characterised by its economy of elements, simple, almost minimalist strokes, and a limited selection of colours to breathe life into highly evocative drawings. This book filled with vibrant images presents Cisneros’s creative processes as the artist shares insights about inspiration, improvisation, personal style, and artistic evolution. 

The author includes an illuminating interview woven throughout the text and gives glimpse into Cisneros’s personal notebooks, showcasing the research and exploration that underpins his magical scenes. From experimental workshops conducted with young people worldwide to commissioned works and his own expressive and introspective pieces illustrating poetry and prose, children’s books and theatre scenery, the breadth of Cisneros’s art unfolds before readers’ eyes. 

The reader accompanies the artist as he wields brushes worn with time, dipping them into jars of paint and sketching on squares of vegetable paper. We witness the subtle interplay of pale pinks merged with pearl greys and the vigorous intensity of explosive carmine reds kissed by African browns. Cisneros’s palette dances with indescribable colours, a testament to the hypnotic alchemy of his chosen paints. With a visually mesmerizing collection of his works, the book celebrates the wide range and intensity of Cisneros’s artistry and how sensibility and technique combine in his illustrations, proving that great stories can be told with very little. 

Designers and students and even top creatives can find in this book fresh trends, inspiring content and new sources of inspiration in the world of typography.

The World’s Best Typography: The Yearbook of the Type Directors Club of NY (published for the first time 1980) is a bible of inspiration for typography practitioners and enthusiasts. Within its pages, top creatives as well as publishers and students can find role models, fresh trends, inspiring content and new sources of inspiration. Readers will be inspired by the intersection of craftsmanship and creation, of classical skills and trailblazing innovations. Here, trends are identified and set, as the around 750 illustrations, 263 awarding-winning designs from 39 countries and 46 new fonts presented clearly illustrate. Designers from all over the world compete to appear in the book. Previously divided into two competitions, one each for Communications Design and Typeface Design, the program is now a single competition consisting of three disciplines: Type Design, Typography and, for the first time, Lettering, which has its own jury. The Award for Typographic Excellence is the ticket to the best agencies in the world. The yearbook also reflects the latest typography trends, sets standards, is a collector’s item and distinguishes its owners as visual thought leaders.

In one book you can see works from thirty-nine countries and regions, which include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Macau, Malta, Moldova, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.

This edition also includes a special index listing the principal typefaces used and the names of their designers. The Judges’ Choices section features the winning entries that have been singled out as each judge’s personal favorite; these pieces are accompanied not only by the judges’ comments but also by designer statements. These components—along with this year’s chairs, Kimya Gandhi and Trisha Tan —exemplify the enormous vitality of the typography profession.

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. 

Extraordinary art and architecture installations from around the world.

Urban interventions establish strong links between the social and spatial spheres of cities, leading to interactions through which art and architecture make use of public spaces. This book presents a rigorous selection of projects, including installations, events and art works that have transformed streets, parks and derelict areas of cities all over the world into extraordinary public spaces, seeking people’s involvement through a wide variety of interactive and collaborative activities. Fully illustrated in color, the publication offers a global and comprehensive vision of 21st century cities, as they become meeting places full of creative possibilities.

Mobile web use overtook desktop use in 2016, with the rise in the former doubling the fall in the latter. This increase in mobile traffic has made mobile user experience one of the most important factors in the success of a product or website. Providing great user experience is essential from the first second. More than 60% of users will not return to a mobile site that they had trouble accessing, and this means that content, navigation and visual design elements must be twice as intuitive as they are on a desktop. In the face of these trends, designers must constantly keep in mind the point that little screens have very little room for error. Interactive Design for Screen is the result of extensive research centred on the latest designs optimized for the screens of mobile devices. Over a hundred projects appear in this volume, and they showcase the functionality and accessibility of great mobile user interfaces. The designers featured analyse their projects from a variety of perspectives such as product specifications, site purpose and target users, making Interactive Design for Screen a highly practical and inspiring guide for students and designers who know that a great mobile user experience is nothing less than essential. It includes QR codes in each project that link to the behance page to let readers see the interactive effect of the project.