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Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, curators and creatives, this edited collection re-evaluates British fashion designer Bill Gibbs international legacy in relation to contemporary concerns such as sustainability, cultural appropriation, and fashion education.

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The renowned author of "Understanding Comics" takes a fascinating look at how the computer age has revolutionized comics, charting 12 different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived. Black-and-white art throughout.

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In Freezing, the buxom Satellizer el Bridget headlines a group of genetically engineered girls tasked with repelling an invasion from inter-dimensional aliens! This book collects the artwork of Kwang-Hyun Kim, illustrator of the original Freezing manga.

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"Now in its fourth edition, this 'toolkit for inspiration' introduces the research techniques fashion designers use to find and develop ideas for their original collections"--

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Provides the reader with a comprehensive, relevant, and visually rich insight into the world of research methods specifically aimed at product designers. This book includes practical case studies and tutorials that will inform, inspire and help you to conduct product design research better.

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Building on the visionary design system that architect Fritz Haller and engineer aul Scharer developed in 1965 for Swiss furniture company USM, this title brings together specially commissioned essays and interviews with leading designers, architects and thinkers to present the wide-ranging importance of modular design over the years.

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The creation of a logotype as one of the most important elements of corporate design is a challenging task for communication designers. In this publication, the author illustrates how designers can utilize the tools of rhetoric, a science that dates back more than 2,500 years.

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The first book to present a groundbreaking global scene, looking at the history, present and future of the Riso, as well as featuring a range of artists, design studios and print shops who use it.

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Comic Art - art that gains its effect through visual humour, caricature, exaggeration and slapstick, whether in print, reproduction or through the moving image - has long helped shape and inform British culture. This title presents a wide-screen vision of comic art, from Hogarth to Spitting Image, from Michelangelo to The Mighty Boosh.

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The first collection of art from acclaimed watercolourists Lauren Marx.

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Insightful quotes written in Tibetan calligraphy are paired with photos of Buddhas from around the world to create this collection of timeless iconography. Calligraphy has held an honored place in the spiritual traditions of Tibet. Monks dedicate their lives to mastering the many subtleties of the art, often spending years transcribing sacred Buddh

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"Sara Berman's Closet was first exhibited at Mmuseumm 2, New York City, in 2015."

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Teaches you how to entertain, decorate, travel, and dress for less. This title is suitable for the women looking to save money without skimping on style.

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In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V&A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries.

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Part-memoir, part-guidebook, an inspiring account of the power of design, diversity, and sisterhood from a seasoned design leader.

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This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and x-ray photography.

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Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them.

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Clothes maketh the man.InSharp Suitswe examine the fascinating history and evolution of the modern suit from the late seventeenth century to date. From eighteenth-century bespoke to the mass industrialisation of the twentieth century, we see how the uniform of the ruling classes became the utilitarian outfit of the worker.

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