Creative Haven Steampunk Designs Coloring Book (Creative Haven Coloring Books)
Over 30 detailed drawings depict men and women in Victorian regalia adorned with goggles, gears, antique clocks, and other artifacts of the steam-powered era. Evocative backgrounds feature moody mashups of butterflies, flowers, and stars with locomotives, hot-air balloons, Victrolas, and other machinery. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed …
This easily navigable resource provides over 125 swatches of the most recognized and widely used varieties of fabric, including natural fabrics such as cottons, silks, wools, and linens as well as artificial and synthetic fabrics like acetates, lyocells, nylons, and metallics to encourage consideration of not just the aesthetic appeal of various fabrics but also their structure, feel, …
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883-1971) was undoubtedly the most influential fashion designer of the 20th century. Her clothes and accessories have remained perennially chic, and her legendary fashion house continues to exert a powerful sway over today’s designers. Jérôme Gautier tells the story of Chanel’s iconic style through hundreds of images, many taken by the leading lights of …
Launching the Imagination treats design as both a verb and a noun―as both a process and a product. Design is deliberate―a process of exploring multiple solutions and choosing the most promising option. Through an immersion in 2-D concepts, students are encouraged to develop methods of thinking visually that will serve them throughout their studies and careers. Building on …
Creative Haven Designer Desserts Coloring Book (Creative Haven Coloring Books)
The popularity of television shows such as Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, and Cupcake Wars attests to a widespread fascination with perfectly decorated desserts. More than 30 original, mouthwatering cake and cupcake designs let everyone join in the fun. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, …
Filling the gap for an extensively illustrated history of modern design, this introduction provides a balanced chronological survey of decorative arts, industrial design and graphic design from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the appreciation of design as a creative activity, as well as an enterprise conditioned by economic, technological and social history, Raizman includes the …
“Universal Methods of Design is an immensely useful survey of research and design methods used by today’s top practitioners, and will serve as a crucial reference for any designer grappling with really big problems. This book has a place on every designer’s bookshelf, including yours!” —David Sherwin, Principal Designer at frog and author of Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges …
Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or charming little country cottages or Parisian apartments. Learn where they shop, where they work, where they play, how they dress, and how they entertain. Absorb each girlfriend’s style …
This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte’s books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of …
An encyclopaedic guide to production techniques and materials for product and industrial designers, engineers, and architects. Today’s product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional “crafts” to the …