Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This title is the ultimate reference guide to all the major types of fabric in use today. This book is a bridge uniting materials and their creators by visually showing the profound relationship between fabrics and fashion with a wide range of patterns, their history and terminology along with around 1,600 stunning colour photographs. This book is an exhaustive study on the subject making it a key reference textbook.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 336

This title by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi is an inspirational sourcebook of the techniques for drawing fashion details. Featuring four thousand original sketches, it contains everything you need to discover how to make accurate drawings of a wide range of fashion elements and is an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, artists, students and anyone involved in fashion design.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 384

Designers need to draw the human body in movement and they must take into account the relationship between the human body, the materials and the shape of the clothing at the same time. This book is a through study on the techniques for drawing the human figure in fashion design. This title offers in-depth explanatory texts for a detailed understanding including graphics. It is addressed to designers not being a handbook on drawing. The first part is focused on the human body and the second part on the clothing.

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Pages: 208

Through beautiful photos and interviews with designers, this book instroduces the jewelers who have dominated the landscape of jewelry design in recent years. In presenting their creations, which fuse tradition and innovation with fascinating results, this book also paves the way for aspiring jewelry designers and rising stars in the field. This book showcases the works and creations of the leading names in contemporary jewelry design.This book contains a showcase of jewelry design that offers a wide array of examples from the best designers. This work features more than 500 highly illustrative and instructive photographs. This book provides insights into the views, techniques, and creative visions of jewelry designs. Éclat is a great source of inspiration for designers in this field.

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Pages: 236

Hats & Caps offers a stunning collection of more than 1,200 of renowned fashion photographer Gianni Pucci's photographs of the headwear creations designed by some of the world's most renowned fashion designers. Featuring hats, caps, head scarves, hair structures, turbans, hairbands, and many other items that are used for decorating the head, this volume is a gallery of the array of designs displayed on catwalks. Some of the creations are famous, and some are unusual, but all provide us with a visual understanding of the charm and elegance of headgear. The collection featured here also invites readers to reflect on why and how items of this kind came to be such beloved and celebrated accessories. This rich and profuse work is an inspirational source for fashion designers, students, and professionals, who will enjoy its unique approach to the creation of fashion accessories. The designs of Vivienne Westwood, Dolce & Gabbana, Diane von Furstenberg, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Ralph Lauren, Paul Smith, Dior, Armani Prive, and Chanel are just some of the incredible creations collected in this volume.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 336

Dimensions: 230 x 240 mm

Publication Date: 30-05-2018

In this new, fabulous activity book, Victor Escandell illustrates these and many other amazing facts about the animal world. Children will have a blast drawing, colouring, cutting out, satiating their thirst of knowledge and solving fascinating enigmas about their favourite animals. Each one of the charming characters of this book reveals a surprising aspect of its nature as it suggests super fun activities that stimulate those new, powerful minds...and hands! Once more, Victor Escandell puts in our hands a bunch of delicious illustrations, wonderful facts and plenty of fun. This is an irresistible activity book, perfect for sharing with family and friends

Bind: hardback

Pages: 56

Dimensions: 280 x 225 mm

Publication Date: 03-09-2018

Portraying people is undoubtedly one of the most difficult aspects of drawing. Expressions, movements, emotions and gazes add a series of challenges not present in still life and landscape techniques. In addition, the scant number of books specifically about drawing children leave many of the particularities related to the portrayal childhood unresolved. This book fills this void, offering a method for acquiring a good command of painting and illustration techniques. Using live models, photographs, videos, drawings of faces and entire bodies, either posing or simply naturally, the book explains step by step the specific characteristics of drawing children. Through an introduction to proportions and by teaching readers how to sketch more freely, it captures both the physical and psychological transformation in an exercise in introspection and memory of one's own childhood. The book is intended for illustrators and lovers of drawing, parents and relatives, and anyone else who wants to capture the memorable, enchanting and fleeting moment associated with childhood. Because, in reality, drawing is learning how to see, how to understand and how to love.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 208

Dimensions: 215 x 297 mm

Publication Date: 31-08-2018

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.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 320

Dimensions: 215 x 287 mm

Publication Date: 20-09-2018

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.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 210 x 285 mm

Publication Date: 31-08-2018

Technological evolution gives people the possibility to receive information from different sources by means of various devices. In the field of branding, logos have to be optimized for smart phones, tablets, TVs and desktops and meet users’ needs at the same time. It’s not new; traditionally, a designer is used to preparing a few variants of the same logo to use for different purposes (horizontally, vertically, short, tall, small, etc.) in different media (book covers or spine, advertisements, positive/negative...). Today, in what is becoming a branding trend, the ability to adapt has assumed more importance given that within the diverse spectrum of current displays and formats a logo has to preserve its personality and identity in a wide range of sizes. Just like webpages, brands adapt and change their visual appearance depending on the width of display devices. For this, in some cases measurements are already taken to reduce logo details and reorganize identifiable elements to avoid losing the identity that characterizes them. In other cases, designers abandoned the old logos that no longer work well today and create more flat designs to suit today’s media. This book features both trends with detailed analysis to help designers make logos that are both useful and stylish in this digital era, through examples of brands with design variants for all types of physical and digital supports in addition to the responsive adaptation of the brand in diverse display formats.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 210 x 285 mm

Publication Date: 03-09-2018