Display in Use
Renowned for their bold and attention-grabbing nature, display fonts are a brand's go-to if it is looking to stand out visually in a sea of competition. Known for their intricate details, expressive style, playful elements, and varied weights, they are adaptable across diverse design contexts, seamlessly integrating into print, digital, and beyond. Display fonts also play a crucial role in determining a brand's personality and impressions at first glance. A continuation of the Sans/Sans Serif in Use collection, this edition features a curated selection of display type specimens, their design applications, and the thoughts that go behind the craft. Display in Use collates the best typefaces for big canvases and serves as a reference point for inspiration-seeking designers and typographers alike.
The Art of Couture Embroidery
Dive into the fascinating world of fashion embroidery, with practical tricks and techniques, and examples of some of the most iconic designs from the catwalk. With a focus on the most influential designers and couture and catwalk pieces from the past four decades, The Art of Couture Embroidery unravels the intricate relationship between high fashion garment construction and the embroidery that makes it sing. This beautifully presented book is perfect for embroiderers of all levels, from hobbyists to students and professionals. Looking at the finest embroidery used in high fashion, this book reveals the inside story of each leading designer, the history of the design house and the untold stories of their most groundbreaking collections. In each chapter, dedicated to a different leading designer or design house, Jessica Pile and Robert Ossant consider a single outstanding and iconic embroidered garment, showing the reader how they can apply the same techniques in their own designs.
Footwear Tooling Design Guide
Footwear Tooling Made Simple: Build Your Brand with ConfidenceBringing a footwear brand to life is an exciting journey, but understanding tooling design, development, and costs can feel overwhelming. The good news? You don't have to navigate it alone. Footwear Tooling Design Guide is your go-to resource for making smart tooling investments that will set your brand up for success.The right tooling is the foundation of every great shoe. From outsole molds to cutting dies and 3D-printed prototypes, this guide walks you through the entire process-helping you design, manage, and budget for the equipment that brings your vision to reality. With clear explanations, real-world examples, and expert insights from industry veteran Wade Motawi, you'll gain the confidence to make informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes.Avoid Costly MistakesWade Motawi-known as The Shoe Dog-has spent 25 years in the footwear industry, overseeing millions of dollars in tooling investments. From cast steel to CNC-cut aluminum, compression molding to injection tooling, he's seen it all. Now, he's sharing his experience so you can learn from the best, sidestep common pitfalls, and make tooling decisions that support your brand's growth and profitability.Whether you're a new brand owner, a designer, or a product developer, this book simplifies the complex world of footwear tooling. You'll learn how to select the right molds, collaborate with factories, and optimize production without overspending. Plus, with additional video instruction, detailed factory tooling drawings, and expert reviews, you'll have everything you need to take your brand to the next level.Investing in footwear tooling doesn't have to be intimidating. With the right knowledge, you can create high-quality shoes, control costs, and build a brand that lasts. Get your copy of Footwear Tooling Design Guide today and take the next step in your footwear journey!
New York Fashion Icons
From Carrie Bradshaw to Grace Jones, and from Nicki Minaj to Blair Waldorf, New York is the fashion 'it girl' capital of the world. New York Fashion Icons is your ultimate guide to all of the key artists, musicians, writers, actors, influencers and characters who define New York style, from high end catwalks to everyday street style. Through deep-dives into their signature pieces, favourite designers, influences and impact on fashion, discover over 50 of the most fashionable New Yorkers. Written and curated by bestselling author and native New Yorker Kristen Bateman, and featuring over 100 images, this is a beautiful book of forever style inspiration.
Words from a Fashion Icon: Guccio Gucci
The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations. Words from a Fashion Icon: Guccio Gucci is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess' iconic and hugely popular illustrations, profiling one of fashion's most popular icons. Bringing her trademark wit and warmth alongside her beloved illustrations, this will be a unique insight into the key thoughts and moments surrounding Guccio Gucci's life and his impact on fashion.
Mid-Century Modern Designers
An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textilesMore than 50 years later, the fascination with mid-century design is stronger than ever before. Explore the popular movement's distinctive style in this A-Z guide to the 300 influential designers who helped to define it.From popular icons such as Alvar Aalto, Lina Bo Bardi, Tony Duquette, Charles & Ray Eames, Pierre Jeanneret, Florence Knoll, and Gio Ponti to the movement's lesser-known figures, the book showcases an expansive, richly illustrated portrait of Mid-Century Modernism across the globe.Detailed texts about each designer appear alongside hundreds of images of post-war designs, from furniture to glassware, lighting to textiles, ceramics to tableware, revealing the vibrant cross-pollination of ideas among the designers who defined the era's aesthetic.
Stetson
Celebrating the style and heritage of Stetson, one of America's oldest and most iconic brands, this beautiful book features the full range of its classic, handcrafted hats and the stylish ways cowboys and artists, movie stars and pop stars, jazz musicians and country singers have worn them over the years. Nothing symbolizes the dream of the American West, from its rugged, dramatic landscapes to its cowboy culture, like Stetson. It was founded in 1865 by John B. Stetson, an explorer and adventurer who, during a long Western expedition, fashioned a hat with a high crown and a wide flat brim that could withstand the elements. It worked so well that he decided to mass-produce it. Renowned for its handmade, high-quality hats, Stetson soon came to represent quintessential American values: innovation, resilience, and trailblazing independence. This book celebrates the profound impact and influence of Stetson, and the cowboy aesthetic, on American culture. In sections including "Stetson in Song" and "Stetson on Screen," stunning photographs show a diverse range of musicians who lay claim to the Stetson as part of their image, from Gene Autry and Loretta Lynn to Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to Beyonc矇--and a who's who of American movie stars from Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood to Jane Fonda and John Travolta up through Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie showing the many different ways to look good in a Stetson. A throughline of iconic style runs through the book, with images of such American icons as Georgia O'Keeffe, Patti Smith, and Lyndon Johnson depicting the timeless look of the Stetson. Heirloom objects, these hats are still handcrafted, and the book explores the couture-like way they're created, including the many ways they can be customized and individually shaped. With evocative archival imagery and glamorous advertisements tracing the history of the brand and highlighting key moments and trends in American history and culture along the way, and with essays by cultural historians contextualizing the significance of Stetson in American culture, this book is an exciting and stunning look at America's most important heritage brand.
Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment #3
A must-have for lovers of streetwear style and its influence on high fashion, this third volume follows up on Rizzoli's best-selling monographs on the work of Fujiwara. Documenting the continuing adventures of the "godfather of streetwear," the book is at once a visual catalog of his most recent collaborations and an ever-evolving record of his enduring impact on contemporary fashion, art, and design. Fujiwara is recognized the world over as a pioneer in streetwear, music, and art, and the ultimate arbiter of cool. Known internationally as one of the founding fathers of the 1990s Ura-Harajuku scene, Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. With recent collaborations from Fendi to Maserati and with his mainstay work at Nike, Nintendo, and Moncler and Medicom, Fujiwara refines an aesthetic immersed in punk, hip-hop, anime, and skate culture and translates it into pure luxury. A musician and producer originally from western Japan, Fujiwara is one of the most prolific of sneaker designers, and his kicks remain some of the most sought-after collectibles. In addition to his very visible and long-standing collaborations with major Western brands, he has long associations with Japanese disruptors like Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and is at the head of the Tokyo-based Fragment Design. This book catalogues his current preoccupations, with chapters on his highly sought-after artwork and graphics, sneakers, product design, and curated personal effects. Heavy on graphic design, this book provides a unique glimpse into one of the most influential tastemakers of our time.
Fashion, Popular Culture and Political Economy
This book delves into the intricate interplay of political, economic, and philosophic forces that have shaped popular culture, fashion, social movements and societies.
Fashion Victims
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period This award-winning book, now available in paperback, chronicles one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history of fashion: the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in eighteenth-century France. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell offers a carefully researched glimpse into the turbulent era's sophisticated and largely female-dominated fashion industry, which produced courtly finery as well as promoted a thriving secondhand clothing market outside the royal circle. She discusses in depth the exceptionally imaginative and uninhibited styles of the period immediately before the French Revolution, and explores fashion's surprising influence on the course of the Revolution itself. The absorbing narrative demonstrates fashion's crucial role as a visible and versatile medium for social commentary, and shows the glittering surface of eighteenth-century high society as well as its seedy underbelly. Fashion Victims presents a compelling anthology of trends, manners, and personalities from the era, accompanied by gorgeous fashion plates, portraits, and photographs of rare surviving garments. Drawing upon documentary evidence, previously unpublished archival sources, and new information about aristocrats, politicians, and celebrities, this book is an unmatched study of French fashion in the late eighteenth century, providing astonishing insight, a gripping story, and stylish inspiration.
Drawing Analogies
By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce's understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, Drawing Analogies draws on its authors' creative use of diagrams as artists, educators and arts researchers, and on fields of inquiry that bring the arts into alignment with other disciplines - most notably anthropology, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and the physical and life sciences. This range of disciplines is evident in the artists and writers discussed, such as Gregory Bateson, Black Quantum Futurism, Salvador Dali, Phillipe Descola, Aristotle, Hilma af Klint, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yayoi Kusama, Louis Hjelmslev, Susanne Leeb, Jacques Lacan, Pauline Oliveros, and George Widener. While the authors approach diagramming as both a technical and poetic activity, their emphasis is on creative, embodied and exploratory modes of diagramming practices, which are capable of engendering new forms, thoughts and experiences. By taking an artistic approach to diagrams and diagramming, by incorporating diagramming as a method of enquiry within chapters, and by exploring their interdisciplinary and multi-perspectival potentials, Drawing Analogies proposes giving new life to the art of diagramming and widening the arena of artistic practice and creative research. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.
Political Illustration
Political Illustration introduces students of illustration, visual communication, art, and political science to how political illustration works, when it's used and why. Through a variety of examples - from the coins of Julius Caesar to contemporary art challenging Indigenous American stereotypes - the book covers propaganda, the impact of media, censorship, and taboo, and the role of contentious politics and dissent art. A wide range of contemporary illustration mediums are included, including street art, the graphic novel, and mixed assemblage illustration, in order to examine the role of media and technique in political messaging. The book features breakout interviews and case studies on prominent global political illustrators (like Edel Rodriguez, Anita Kunz and Fabian Williams) and full color examples. The authors include an introduction to semiotics, visual grammar, and visual communication theory, and how these approaches contribute to the decoding of political messages - and how these tactics are used by those ruling, and those being ruled. In particular, the authors look at political illustration, protest art and propaganda related to: - American and European Imperialism- Japanese internment- The World Wars- The Soviet Union and China- Dictatorships in Africa and South America- Civil Rights movements - Contemporary protests and marches, including the Women's March (2017) and the Egyptian Revolution (2011)- ...and many more periods, events and movements
Islamicate Textiles
Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East - with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles - and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Fashion: Seductive Play
In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink's philosophical investigation into fashion to an English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the "phenomenological movement," Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in relationship to other forms of human culture, especially contemporary culture. Although there have been many transformations and changes in the world of fashion since the late 1960s, from pr礙t-?-porter to fast fashion, fashion's connection to both high culture and popular culture, and the new relationship between fashion and the advent of social media, Fink's insights allow wide-ranging and far-reaching inquiries into fashion's philosophical essence. Fink's extraordinary lucidity and his unique conceptual capacities have made his work crucial to the study of the philosophy of fashion today. His work, like that of Simmel's, Veblen's or Benjamin's, is as essential and important now as when it was first published.
Capturing Fashion
Groundbreaking fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky invigorated the fashion industry with his glamorous, exotic, and often unconventional photographs. Gleb Derujinsky's career as a fashion photographer took hold in the golden age of European haute couture, when Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain were at the top of their game and Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were designing their first runway shows. Although air travel was still reserved for the happy few, Derujinsky convinced his editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland to send him around the world to photograph beautiful models--like Carmen Dell'Orefice and his future wife, Ruth Neumann--draped in expensive gowns juxtaposed against rough desert dunes or a glittering ocean at sunset. His ideas were revolutionary and they gave rise to the mystique and glamour that is now pervasive in fashion. Derujinsky was the quintessential Renaissance man--photographer, award-winning cinematographer and commercial director, inventor, WWII veteran, world traveler, jewelry designer, musician, ski instructor, Ferrari America race-car driver, and champion glider pilot. His passion for photography started at the tender age of six, by ten, he had built a photo enlarger, and as a teenager, he became the youngest member of the Camera Club of New York. His photographs appeared in major lifestyle magazines and extensively in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1970. This is the first monograph to celebrate his major contributions to the history of fashion and photography.
The Routledge Companion to Design Research
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.
Graphis Advertising Annual 2025
The ideas that moved markets, shaped culture, and set a new creative standard. The Graphis Advertising Awards 2025 Annual showcases the most powerful and imaginative campaigns from agencies and artists around the world -- a lasting celebration of creativity, craft, and courage in communication.The Best in Global AdvertisingThe Graphis Advertising Awards 2025 Annual is a beautifully printed chronicle of excellence -- featuring the year's most exceptional advertising campaigns, bold design thinking, and unforgettable storytelling.
From digital to print, film to branding, these award-winning works reflect the innovation, insight, and artistry that define the industry at its best.Winning Entrants: This edition honors our Platinum Award Winners, including
ARSONAL, Barlow.Agency, Canyon, Chang Liu, Darkhorse Design, Eight Sleep, Lewis Communications, Ogilvy Brazil, PETROL Advertising, PPK, and Vanderbyl Design.
Each embodies the creative mastery that Graphis continues to recognize and preserve. Jury of Industry Leaders: Entries were judged by an accomplished international panel of award-winning creative directors and agency leaders: 
Scott Bucher (Traction Factory), Steve Chavez (The Buntin Group), Quinnton Harris (Retrospect), Mike Kriefski (Shine United), Dan Magdich (Brunner), and Courtney Richardson (Droga5).
Their expertise ensures the Graphis standard -- excellence judged by excellence.Inside the Book: Within these pages, discover: Full-page reproductions of Platinum and Gold Award-winning work from leading agencies and brands.Showcases of Silver-winning and Honorable Mention projects from across the globe.Credits and Commentary sections where Platinum and Gold winners share their brief, process, and results.A curated selection of work from our distinguished judges, plus our annual In Memoriam, honoring the creative talents we lost this year.Why This Annual Matters: This volume isn't just a book -- it's a benchmark of modern advertising excellence.
A vital resource and an enduring inspiration for creative directors, designers, educators, and students, the Graphis Advertising Awards 2025 Annual celebrates those shaping the future of communication and brand storytelling.Audience: For those who create, teach, or study the art of persuasion: Advertising agencies and design studiosCreative and art directorsProfessors, educators, and students of advertising and designCollectors and enthusiasts of world-class creative work
The Green Runway, Redefining Fashion Through Ecology and Ethical Choices
From Fast Fashion to Forever, Ecology and Ethics in the Clothing Industry
The Pocket Chanel
This beautifully concise guide tells the story of the couturier Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel and the luxury fashion brand she founded.A charismatic character, Chanel created relaxed clothing, made for comfort and activity, liberating women from the confines of corsets. This unofficial and unauthorized pocket-sized celebration of her life and work reveals her humble origins, rise to fame and key pieces.From the little black dress and the 2.55 handbag to costume jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume, her simple and elegant designs were so novel and original that they changed fashion for ever.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion, and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.
Graphis Design Annual 2025
Immerse in a powerful visual journey through the eyes of over 500 award-winning graphic designers from around the globe. In one of the most coveted industry award competitions, Graphis Design 2025 celebrates design excellence through the captivating and influential work of the past year from solo designers and global firms. Juried by acclaimed international designers, these works can be seen across animation, branding, books, entertainment, packaging, posters, product design and other disciplines.This inspiring collection of work revolves around all categories of graphic design, demonstrating once again the importance of design in culture, commerce, and lifestyle. Read about the creative process from Platinum and Gold Winners regarding their assignments and the approaches they took to reach their award-winning solutions.
The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas
This fully illustrated volume brings designers and their sofas together as a lighthearted way to find out what makes some of the world's most famous designers tick. Each of the fifty entries features a portrait of the designer on their sofa, taken at their own home or workplace, sometimes with their family, their pets, or with other possessions. Each photograph captures essential details about the designer's life, work, and style. An in-depth interview accompanies each entry so that readers find out not just about their sofa, for example whether or not they designed it, and if not why they chose it, and who it was designed by, but also about their life, their work, what they're passionate about, and what they struggle with. Taken together, this unique collection of photographic portraits and interviews provides unique insights into the minds and lives of some of the greatest designers of our time. In addition, a special foldout presents one hundred sofas from the last century with designs by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Charlotte Perriand, Verner Panton, Cini Boeri, Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, and many more.
Sustainable Blue Economy Value Chain and Water Resources Management System Series
Wiwen Nilsson
The first English-language monograph on silversmith, sculptor, jeweler, and artist Wiwen Nilsson, whose work is a gem in the history of Swedish design. Featuring superb new photography, stunning archive imagery, and texts by leading international curators, commentators, and experts, this book is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the life and work of Wiwen Nilsson, a pioneer of art deco and mid-century design and silverware. Lavishly illustrated and deeply insightful, the book provides an overview of Wiwen Nilsson's personal and professional development, bringing the main facets of his artistic and functional production into sharp focus, as well as presenting important new research about his achievements. A particular emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of Wiwen Nilsson's practice, and notably on the bridge he built between the realm of fine arts and the world of design. The book includes thematic essays focusing on his silverware products--his sculptural oeuvre, his jewelry production, and his participation in Swedish and international exhibitions. Contributors include Dr. Flavia Frigeri (National Portrait Gallery, UK), Alice Rawsthorn (award-winning design critic), Dr. Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK), and Clare Philips (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK).
Little Book of Miu Miu
Quirky, daring and unconventionally chic, Miu Miu is the fashion house for those that dare to be different. The cult little sister brand of Prada, the maison was launched as an 'anti-fashion' brand in 1993 and its pieces have been worn by celebrities including Sydney Sweeney and Chlo禱 Sevigny. From recent viral micro-miniskirts and covetable ballet flats to archive whimsical prints, artist collaborations and off-kilter colors, Miu Miu is the brand designed with a rare female point of view for daring women. With over 100 images of their most iconic pieces, accompanied by expert text, Little Book of Miu Miu explores the history of the iconic fashion house whose current and archival designs are coveted by the It girls of today.
On Loss and Absence
A journey through the rich histories of textiles that explores their significant cultural roles, from memorializing lost loved ones to resisting oppression From ancient Egyptian shrouds to medieval relics, textiles have played both functional and symbolic roles in rituals of death across time and place. Featuring funeral hangings, mourning samplers, garments, and many other textiles and fragments, along with works by contemporary textile artists such as Nick Cave (b. 1959) and Angela Hennessey (b. 1971), this book highlights how these objects help people negotiate experiences of loss, grief, healing, and survival. With over seventy textiles dating from antiquity to today, On Loss and Absence brings together examples from cultures and traditions around the world. Close-up photographs provide an intimate look at the wealth of artistic and historical information embedded in their intricate details and painstaking techniques. In four key sections--Death and Grief, Transition of Realms, Care and Healing, and Resistance and Survival--artists, conservators, educators, and scholars offer their in-depth perspectives on select objects and their context. Contemporary practitioners, including the Noqanchis collective of Andean weavers and Navajo weavers Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas, provide insight into the enduring legacies of Indigenous textile arts. A behind-the-scenes look at textile conservation examines preservation techniques in the larger thematic context of care and survival. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (September 6, 2025-March 15, 2026)
A Guide to Regency Dress
An accessible, fun, yet authoritative guide to male and female Regency fashions Celebrated dress historian Hilary Davidson brings together nearly 20 years of research on Regency fashion in an illustrated guide for the first time. All the elements of the Regency wardrobe of both men and women--from coats, gowns and undergarments to shoes, accessories, beauty, hair and jewellery--are assembled, along with their textiles and trimmings. A Guide to Regency Dress is an essential companion to navigate the fashion world of Jane Austen or re-create the Regency look.
Renaissance to Runway
An exploration of the rich creative influence of Italian Renaissance art on the designs of contemporary Italian fashion houses Successful Italian fashion houses such as Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace are among the most high-profile and cutting-edge on the global fashion scene. Many of the innovative designs created by these and other major Italian houses draw on imagery from Italy's rich cultural and artistic past. Weaving together insightful texts and vivid illustrations, this book explores the creative, cultural and social dialogues between contemporary Italian fashion houses and the enduring legacy of Renaissance Italy. During the Renaissance, the Italian peninsula was dominated by powerful aristocratic families or "houses," such as the Medici in Florence and the Sforza in Milan, whose members used fashion and art to communicate their power. Through essays by scholars and fashion industry professionals, including Luca Missoni of the House of Missoni and Stefania Ricci, director of the Ferragamo Museum, this book provides an insider look at the creative connections between Italian Renaissance "houses" and contemporary Italian fashion houses, and the design innovations that celebrate the vital legacy of Italian Renaissance imagery. Art directed by Luca Stoppini, former Vogue Italia creative director, this book features an inventive, oversize design reminiscent of Vogue magazine's storied annual "September Issue," conveying a gripping story about contemporary Italian fashion and enlivened with runway and art images, as well as original photography inspired by nostalgic glossy editorials. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Cleveland Museum of Art (November 9, 2025-February 1, 2026)
Arthur Ferrier's Cabaret Cuties 1954-1968
Take a front-row seat for Cabaret Cuties as Ferrier's irresistible cartoon pin-ups steal the spotlight in the swinging sixties. In addition to highlighting Ferrier's illustrations, this volume includes several articles by him for aspiring illustrators: "Adventures in Pen and Ink," "Props, Dress and Style," "Pencils and Ink," and "On Cartooning."
Thinking Through Graphic Design History
Graphic design has a paradoxical relationship to history. While it claims to promote originality and innovation - ideas that emphasize the new and unique - design practice is deeply embedded in previous ideals. Too often, design students encounter the past in brief visual impressions which seduce them to imitate form rather than engage with historical contexts. Even though it has claimed to be objective and even comprehensive, graphic design history has focused largely on individual careers and Eurocentric achievements. Yet the past swells with untapped potential. Graphic design history can serve the field of today and tomorrow, but its narratives require updates. History, like design, is always changing - and like design, history is driven by present-day questions. This book shows how students and practicing designers can enrich their work by thinking historically about design. With thoughtful analyses, stimulating creative prompts, inspiring case studies, and perspectives from designers all over the world, this book challenges our traditional understanding of graphic design history, and the very notion of the design canon, offering ways to shape socially engaged, critical practices.
Greubel Forsey
This is the untold story of how two rebellious master watchmakers, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey, learned their craft, met, established a brand, and in a few years created some of the most astonishingly beautiful and mechanically sophisticated timepieces ever made. Today they are recognized as the makers of the most uncompromising designs in the world.In early 1992, the two men met at Renaud et Papi, a hothouse of new watchmaking ideas in Le Locle in the Swiss Jura Mountains. They teamed up and launched Greubel Forsey in 2004 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, refusing to accept that everything had already been invented in watchmaking. Going against the grain, they focused their energy on uncompromising innovation and the most difficult elements of hand finishing, bringing back a level of excellence that would rival the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masters.Greubel and Forsey are responsible for many inventions that have advanced watchmaking expertise to new levels, as well as creating thirty unique and original calibers since 2004.
Living Design
A collection of the work and writing of celebrated Cuban designer Clara Porset. Cuban-born, Mexico-based designer Clara Porset is renowned for her mid-century modern furniture and interior design and for her collaborations with architects such as Luis Barrag獺n and Mario Pani. She was also an accomplished critic and writer. Living Design collects Porset's essays, reviews, and lectures to highlight her role as an influential thinker, educator, and practitioner. This volume insightfully contextualizes the politics that shaped Porset's design principles, charts the influence of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College on her work, and reveals the period's fusion of local adaptations and modernist principles that made Mexico a major center of modernist design. At a time when many practitioners believed that design could only be modernized by replacing hand craftsmanship with mechanization, Porset valued both approaches for their distinctive qualities and urged others to do the same. Through her writings, she encouraged efforts to catalyze local design communities during a period of rapid technological and social change. With essays by historian Randal Sheppard and design curator and scholar Ana Elena Mallet, an introduction by volume editors Zo禱 Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, and explanatory notes on the people and publishing forums in Porset's circle, Living Design makes available works never before published in English, and with only limited circulation in the Spanish language, in order to recover an important and neglected voice in global modernism.
Systemic Service Design
Systemic Service Design provides a comprehensive overview of how systems theories can be integrated into service design to address complex social-economic-technological challenges. The book delivers theoretical and practical knowledge for students and designers, managers, public and private sector planners, engineers and politicians.
An Illustrated Guide to Japanese Traditional Clothing and Performing Arts
This book is a collection of Japanese Traditional Clothing and Performing Arts. For each entry, we have written the Japanese pronunciation, English translation and word origin. Recently, Japanese culture is attracting worldwide attention. What is that black kimono you see at weddings called? What exactly is kumadori? And how can I explain kesa in English? You will find plentiful of information that will make you feel proud. For those of you who are interested in Japanese culture or have plans to visit Japan, this book is the one for you. However, please keep in mind that the names used here may vary by region.
Indigo
Discover indigo; one of the most mystical yet widely used dyes in the world. Featuring inspirational images, this book shows you how to grow, extract and dye with indigo. From cowboys' denim to the jeans in your wardrobe, indigo's enduring popularity survives to this day. In this practical handbook, learn how to use this powerful pigment to breathe life into your clothes and craft projects. This book contains all the information you need to use natural or synthetic indigo, alongside a wealth of dying recipes with other plants and textile ideas.In the first chapter, learn how to grow indigo yourself, whether you have a windowsill or a full garden. No matter where you live, the authors provide gardening tips for the best species of indigo for your area. From there, a variety of different dyeing techniques are explained to achieve your desired results. Covering everything from warm or cold dyeing with indigo, fructose, hydrosulfite and fermented vats, as well as dyeing with other pigments for multi-coloured effects. A chapter explaining the science behind the dye also troubleshoots any problems to help you experiment further.Finally, the projects section includes guides on how to use your dyed textiles to create intricate moyo-sashi and hitome-sashi embroidery, patchwork quilts or resist-dyed patterns. Weave using traditional ikat or boro techniques and dye beautiful honeycomb, storm and geometric patterns. Take your ideas to the next level with this potent dye and create projects that are bound to astound.From plant to pigment, Indigo will encourage both beginners and experienced dyers to cultivate, dye and create with a wide range of innovative and exciting recipes and unique projects.
