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Description:Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, Patternmaking for Fashion Design offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking and design principles—dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring—it provides students with all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity. Some innovative, new information in this book include: *Updated with modern, cutting-edge sketches and designs. *DVD included in the back of the book. *Ribbing added to the knit section of Chapter 27. *More materials on children’s wear and swim wear. *Knock offs.*Fitting corrections*Advanced design projects*A practical introduction to patternmaking*Complete coverage of the three steps of design patterns: dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring.[Full description]

ISBN: 9780136069348

Best Price (AUD): $104 (includes postage)

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Description:Offers graphic designers with a reference source for logo design. This book contains more than 1300 logos grouped according to their focal form, symbol and graphic associations. It offers design consultancies, a resource to draw upon in the research phase of identity projects. It also offers alphabetically indexed logos.[Full description]

ISBN: 9781856695282

Best Price (AUD): $33 (includes postage)

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Description:Conceived when Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people - authors, musicians, artists, designers and other cultural tastemakers - in their home environments and posting them on his blog, this book consists of over thirty profiles: half of which are favourites from his web site.[Full description]

ISBN: 9780810984868

Best Price (AUD): $33 (includes postage)

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Description: In Logo Design Love, Irish graphic designer David Airey brings the best parts of his wildly popular blog of the same name to the printed page. Just as in the blog, David fills each page of this simple, modern-looking book with gorgeous logos and real world anecdotes that illustrate best practices for designing brand identity systems that last.. [Full description]

ISBN: 9780321660763

Best Price (AUD): $32 (includes postage)

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Description: This new detailed guide to learning the skills and techniques of drawing modern fashion and figure is also a rich reference source for a broad range of modern garments and accessories. Extensively illustrated, this introduction teaches by example, the power of drawing as a means of communication and expression and strives to show students how to perceive things in order to be able to draw them correctly. The first section is dedicated to drawing the human figure, while the second portion deals with how to draw a wide range of modern garments and accessories and the types of techniques used to render them convincingly and elegantly in different fabric designs and textures. This volume offers a complete presentation of proportions of the croquis, draping the figure, accessories, flats, and features an encyclopedia of details, how to draw textiles and real clothes, the art of illustration, and computers and fashion drawing. For designers, fashion professionals, teachers and students of fashion. [Full description]

ISBN: 9780970246332

Best Price (AUD): $65 (includes postage)

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Description: Contains projects that began as a list that the author found in his diary under the title ‘Things I have learned in my life so far’. This collection is part design project, part work of art, part examination of the pursuit of happiness. [Full description]

ISBN: 9780810995291 

Best Price (AUD): $26 (includes postage)

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Description: More and more designers seek to combine the power of the computer with the personal qualities of handmade elements. This book offers insight into this fusion of the digital and the hand-wrought, with examples of some of the best work in the industry, including design that includes hand-lettering elements and design that incorporates collage. [Full description]

ISBN: 9783899552324 

Best Price (AUD): $61 (includes postage)

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Description: More and more designers seek to combine the power of the computer with the personal qualities of handmade elements. This book offers insight into this fusion of the digital and the hand-wrought, with examples of some of the best work in the industry, including design that includes hand-lettering elements and design that incorporates collage. [Full description]

ISBN: 9781581808711 

Best Price (AUD): $36 (includes postage)

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Description: A visual guide to the way the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we’re steeped in it, maybe even lost in it. [Full description]

ISBN: 9780007294664 

Best Price (AUD): $26 (includes postage)

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Description: Addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. This title offers advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions for running a successful business. [Full description]

ISBN: 9781856697095 

Best Price (AUD): $31 (includes postage)

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