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The inside scoop on sustainability and the materials in the products we use.

(, 5th edition)

This full-color text takes students step-by-step through the decision-making involved in the pre-production processes of apparel product development including business, creative, technical, and production planning.

(Hardback)

The ultimate red carpet companion, Beyond the Best Dressed is an illustrated, personality-filled romp through more than 90 years of Oscar fashion, from the elegant to the absurd.

(Paperback)

This book focuses on coloour as a tool to create moods and symbolic images and provides a treasure chest of fresh ideas on how to use colour in brochures, ads, logos etc. Each project featured appears with the colour formulas for creating a similar tone.

(Paperback)

"Using previously unexplored sources, Black Designers in American Fashion addresses the erased histories of black fashion designers and their integral role in the American fashion industry"--

(Hardback)

A gorgeous, entertaining, and provocative compendium of the award-winning artist's iconic illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and more.

(Hardback)

From the conceptual Read-Unread Bookshelf (which weighs books read against those still to be started) to the multi-function Trick (a unit that transforms from shelf-space into a table and two chairs), this title presents over 200 inventive and experimental book shelving designs in more than 400 colour illustrations.

(Hardback)

More than 200 photos of cowboy boots, buckles, and bolos take us on a Western journey through more than a century. From handcrafted examples of cowboy and cowgirl boots, decorative belt buckles fashioned by silversmiths and engravers, and slides for bolo ties, you can almost smell the boot leather feel the smooth stones and silver engraving.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and an Hermes scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Hermes to part with one of these precious bags.

(Hardback)

Charming, eccentric, endlessly inventive, Heath Robinson's unforgettable drawings perfectly capture the peculiar character of the British nation at leisure.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Features works in paint, print, pencil, and sculpture informed by mythology and folklore of Japanese, Brazilian, Saxon, Greek, and Pagan origin.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Featuring hundreds of artists from across the globe join forces in paying homage to over a dozen classic Capcom franchises, it also includes combat-fueled classics that were featured in a cornucopia of artistic styles.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Cartoon animals are the essential subject matter for the cartoonists and animation artists. This book presents the fuzzy world of creatures, and shows different exotic animals, which also make for wonderfully cute characters, such as the cuddliest dogs, cats, bunnies, ferrets, badgers, walruses, zebras, sea otters, ostriches, pelicans, and more.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

The subject of "design thinking" is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press--due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

Takes a look at the development of a Chinese design culture within the context of China's history of industrialisation, consumer revolution and rapid urbanisation. This book explores how China's design culture began, what its driving forces are, and how it is developing.

(Hardback)

A guide to different types of fabric in circulation. It describes over 600 examples, from classic tweeds to nano fabrics. It is suitable for design students, teachers, designers, historians, manufacturers, buyers and merchandisers worldwide.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Collapsibles are objects that fold out for use and then fold back in again to save space. This text identifies 12 principles of collapsibility and looks at examples of each in turn, before examining collapsibility in furniture of all kinds, from chairs and tables to sofas and storage.