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Introduction to Service Design
Designing the Invisible
Av Lara Penin
Häftad, 2018
490 kr
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A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it.Despite its intrinsic multidisciplinarity, service design is a new specialization of …
Creative Fashion Illustration
How to Develop Your Own Style
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
384 kr
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Fashion illustration is skilful and inventive, and the best fashion illustrators can fulfil a brief creatively using their own unique approach. Visually-led and extremely accessible, this book is the go-to resource for anyone wanting to develop their own style. Easy-to-follow exercises are designed …
Thinking through Craft
Häftad, 2018
365 kr
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Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high ‘production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet …
Dress, Dreams, and Desire
A History of Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 2025
307 kr
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"Fascinating." - The New YorkerWhat can psychoanalysis tell us about the power and allure of fashion? Valerie Steele, author of Dress, Dreams and Desire, was described by critic Suzy Menkes as “the Freud of fashion.” In this pathbreaking book, the first cultural history of fashion and …
Fashion in the French Revolution
New Edition
Häftad, 2026
427 kr
Kommande
This exciting new edition of Fashion in the French Revolution looks at the elaborate dress of French society and the court in the 1780s and the way in which plain clothing became identified with "democracy".Illustrated in full colour throughout and with many new additional images, this extensively …
Plus-size Patternmaking for Womenswear
Inclusive Sizing, Pattern Drafting, and Fitting
Av Gabby Brown, Leila Kelleher
Häftad, 2026
554 kr
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An essential guide to patternmaking for plus-size fashion, and the specialized skills, shapes, and techniques required to achieve a great fit and make beautiful clothing that truly understands plus-size bodies.Featuring all the major block types for contemporary apparel – from fitted bodices to …
Material Lives
Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century
Av Serena Dyer
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women’s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women’s making has traditionally been seen as decorative, …
Design, Ecology, Politics
Towards the Ecocene
Häftad, 2021
369 kr
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Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice, critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development.Boehnert argues that when design does engage with issues of sustainability, this engagement remains shallow, due to the …
Visible Signs
An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts
Av David Crow
Häftad, 2022
543 kr
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Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand how these ideas might impact on their own practice. Visible Signs tackles this problem by introducing key theories and concepts, such as signs and …
Atmospheric Architectures
The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces
Av Gernot Böhme, Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul
Häftad, 2020
410 kr
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There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of …
From Sleepwear to Sportswear
How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion
Av Janine D'Agati, Hannah Schiff
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman.Worn by Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, painted …
Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn
Av Fernando Secomandi, Peter-Paul Verbeek
Inbunden, 2026
1203 kr
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Through a collection of essays, this open access book brings together perspectives on philosophy of technology and design.Taking stock of recent changes in technology – including recently emerging digital tools like AI – the authors look to expand the discussions that draw upon both design …
Rei Kawakubo
For and Against Fashion
Av Rex Butler
Häftad, 2024
350 kr
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Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world’s major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer ever to be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work has exerted an extraordinary influence …
Art of Parisian Chic
Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris
Häftad, 2025
427 kr
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Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.French societal expectations and beauty ideals …
Practice-based Design Research
Häftad, 2019
446 kr
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Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss …
Art of Parisian Chic
Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris
Inbunden, 2025
1311 kr
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Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.French societal expectations and beauty ideals …
Bad Corset
A Feminist Reimagining
Inbunden, 2024
1384 kr
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Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetry’s contribution to disease, disfigurement, and disorders of the female …
1960s Model Girl
Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History
Inbunden, 2025
1239 kr
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Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, 1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion …
Fashion Fictions
Imagining Sustainable Worlds
Häftad, 2025
326 kr
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If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up? An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas …
Interactive Visual Merchandising
Swipe, Scan, Shop
Häftad, 2027
423 kr
Kommande
Transform stores into destinations by creating retail experiences customers want to return to again and again. Today’s shoppers expect more than a transaction. They want personalized, seamless, and engaging experiences that connect physical and digital retail. In Interactive Visual Merchandising, …
Sympathy of Things
Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Häftad, 2019
433 kr
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‘If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty’ writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth …
200 Projects to get you into Art School
Häftad, 2019
311 kr
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This is a complete course in drawing, painting and illustration for young artists. It is filled with challenging tutorials, practical projects and tips from professional artists. The media covered range from pencils, crayons and paints to clay, mixed media and computers. All students taking GCSE …
Queer Anatomies
Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900
Inbunden, 2024
1022 kr
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In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unmentionables debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline—anatomy—had license to represent and narrate the intimate details of the human body—anus and genitals included. Figured …
Costume in Performance
Materiality, Culture, and the Body
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
471 kr
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Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic …
Fashion in the French Revolution
New Edition
Inbunden, 2026
1116 kr
Kommande
This exciting new edition of Fashion in the French Revolution looks at the elaborate dress of French society and the court in the 1780s and the way in which plain clothing became identified with "democracy".Illustrated in full colour throughout and with many new additional images, this extensively …
Dress History of Korea
Critical Perspectives on Primary Sources
Häftad, 2024
350 kr
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Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea. Through close analysis of visual, written, and material sources—some newly excavated or recently …
Becoming Leonor Fini
Theatrical Self-Performances between Art and Life
Häftad, 2028
369 kr
Kommande
Italian-Argentine artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) can be seen as the original artist-celebrity; her self-mythologization was promulgated by some of the 20th century’s most prominent photographers, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Dora Maar.Exploring her self-fashioning and dressing-up practices in …
Paris Fashion and World War Two
Global Diffusion and Nazi Control
Av Lou Taylor, Marie McLoughlin
Häftad, 2020
490 kr
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Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian …
Women in Wartime
Dress Studies from Picture Post 1938-1945
Inbunden, 2019
1470 kr
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to …
Teaching Fashion Studies
Inbunden, 2018
1470 kr
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Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both seasoned instructors and those at the start of an academic career, in addition to interdisciplinary …
