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Build Your Own Brand
Strategies, Prompts and Exercises for Marketing Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
What is your brand?
As a designer your success depends on how you brand yourself and the service you provide. This book will help you explore, develop, distill, and determine a distinctive brand essence, differentiate yourself, and create your visual identity.
Build Your Own Brand is...
by Gianfranco Giacoma-caire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Visual Merchandising is a technical manual that has more than 400 photos and 100 drawings. It speaks about the aesthetic aspects to set a window shop and the internal visual in a store.
Analyse the psychological components, the reactions of the customer, how the colors can influence the man and how...
Remodelista: The Organized Home
Simple, Stylish Storage Ideas for All Over the House
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Buy fewer (and better) things. Store like with like. Get rid of the plastic. Display—don’t stash—your belongings. Let go of your inner perfectionist and remember that rooms are for living. These are a few of the central principles behind Remodelista: The Organized Home, the new book from the...
Costume Since 1945
Historical Dress from Couture to Street Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Since the mid-20th century fashion has undergone phenomenal change at a rapid pace in the context of unprecedented social, political and cultural upheaval. This fully updated and expanded second edition of Costume Since 1945 brings this period to life through accessible, lively text and over 100 illustrations.
From...
Sustainability and the Social Fabric
Europe’s New Textile Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact. Padovani and Whittaker offer a unique exploration of the textile industry in Europe from the perspective...
E-Activity and Intelligent Web Construction
Effects of Social Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
As the complexity and importance of web activity multiplies, the success of any endeavor depends on utilizing the most advanced intelligent techniques when designing tools for the modern age. E-Activity and Intelligent Web Construction: Effects of Social Design presents the crux of the interdisciplinary...
Cool Hotels
India, Maldives, Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
With over 500 beautiful photographs, Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Be it a rustic retreat or a five-star, super-deluxe resort that can hold its own globally, all are at the cutting-edge of the new wave of hotel design and management. Each property...
The Art and Craft of Printing
"Give me love and work, these two only."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed...
Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World
Design Museum Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Design Museum brings you fifty typefaces that changed the world we live in!
The digital revolution has made typesetters of us all as we define our identities through the typefaces we choose to communicate with the world. In this witty and insightful book John L Waters explores 50 of the...
Advertising and Public Memory
Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned...
Landscape Graphics
Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear...
by Amy Sylvester Katoh
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This Japanese design book presents the refined interiors of Japan with dozens of stunning color photos and extensive commentary .
This delightful book shows that wherever it is used, the creative juxtaposition of blue and white provides both visual nourishment and spiritual balm. From the ephemeral...
Calamity-Free Crochet
Trouble-shooting Tips and Advice for the Savvy Needlecrafter
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Get it right the first time! Calamity-Free Crochet is a comprehensive, quick-reference guide for both new and advanced crocheters. It presents easy-to-follow advice on tools and materials, troubleshooting tips, and step-by-step techniques. What do you do if your stitches keep twisting? What happens...
by Ad. & M. P. Verneuil
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Reprinted in full color from a rare portfolio of abstract design published in Paris in the 1920s, these images splendidly capture the emergence of the Art Deco aesthetic in the years following World War I. The work of two notable French illustrators, this rich kaleidoscope of arcs and angles represents...