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The finishing touches applied to a garment can take it from the realms of the ordinary to the heights of luxury

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Presents techniques that are mostly intuitive and easy to make, requiring no origami knowledge. This book features 12 different techniques: Twisting narrow strips to make 'paper string', Weaving strips, Layering, Coiling, Tearing, Bending, Incising and Lifting, Crumpling, Pleating, Cutting Pleats, Stippling and using Translucent Surfaces.

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Provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern glass architecture. Featuring the work of architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the completed and influential glass designs for residential, public and commercial architecture.

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Hotel interiors need to satisfy the imaginations of their customers and whet the appetite for a return visit or recommendation, and the design that gets the formula right will do as much to prolong the life of the business as the service delivered within the hotel

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Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. This title presents 40 of the completed and influential landscape designs. It includes colour photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous construction details.

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This book provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture

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Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design provides the know-how for students and professionals who wish to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as design tools by examining how they can access the techniques of digital textile printing and providing an insight into the technology involved.

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Draping is the art of manipulating fabric directly on the dress form

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This book covers all stages of visual presentation as part of the interior design process, from the most basic initial sketches to fully developed computer-generated visualizations

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A guide to both hand - and computer-drawn design. It helps readers to think three-dimensionally and build complex design ideas that are structurally sound and visually clear. It illustrates how these basic skills underpin the use of computer-aided design and graphic software.

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Editorial Design: Digital and Print is a comprehensive guide to the traditional and digital skills that a designer will need for a future career in visual journalism today the design of magazines and newspapers for a wide variety of markets

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Lavish book celebrating the rich heritage of Chinese crafts and its influence on the pioneering contemporary design of Shang Xia.

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This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it

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This great book provides the fashion student with everything they need to understand the concept of research as a means to ideas generation and development. Surena Primus, Leeds Arts University

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An understanding of trends is a fundamental skill for anyone working in the fashion industry

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Shows the key skills and tips behind the trade of footwear design. Suitable for both budding designers and those who are interested in shoes, this title explores the footwear design process, explaining the differences between the anatomy of the foot and the anatomy of a shoe, and also showing how one constrains the other.

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In this readable and highly original book, John J

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For the third edition of Graphic Design Stephen Eskilson has, with the aid of 540 new and existing images, updated key parts of the book

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Hassan Fathy is Egypts best-known 20th-century architect

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This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has developed

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Offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. This book covers all areas of the such as creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts; setting up a studio; maintaining a flow of work and managing ones time and cash.

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Designing a final degree collection is a fashion students first chance to approach the reality of the industry. This handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a different step of the project: from understanding the brief and identifying the market to research, development and sampling.

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Its long been an accepted, almost celebrated, fact of the creative industries that long hours, chaotic workflows and egotistical colleagues are just the price you pay to produce great work

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How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications