RECENT HIGHLIGHTS: VISUAL ARTS
Draping for Apparel Design
Patternmaking for Dress Design
Helen Joseph-Armstrong and Susan Ashdown
9 Iconic Styles from Empire to Cheongsam
Fully updated and revised, this edition incorporates current industry practices, adds diversity into apparel design, provides a comprehensive introduction for beginning patternmakers, and shares advanced techniques for further learning. Mar 2022 • 1450 illus • 592 pages 280 x 215mm • 4th edition 9781501315206 • Fairchild Books
Pamela Vanderlinde Detailed patterns and step-by-step instructions guide fashion designers through creating 9 iconic dresses, with background on each garment's historical significance and examples of how they're reinvented in contemporary collections.
The Color of Modernism
Journeys between East and West, Past and Present
Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany
An illustrated exploration of Byzantine culture, its past history and its relevance to design today, looking at the style and influence of woven silk textiles. Apr 2022 • 220 colour illus 368 pages • 276 x 219mm 9781350099333 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fat Fashion
A Critical Introduction
The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies
Aaron Fine A critical and historical introduction to theories of colour, explaining the cultural context in which ideas about colour have developed, from antiquity to the present day. Sep 2021 • 162 colour and mono illus 376 pages • 246 x 189mm 9781350027305 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Sep 2021 • 650 colour illus 256 pages • 270 x 210mm 9781350094673 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads Edited by Sarah E. Braddock Clarke and Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo
Color Theory
Deborah Ascher Barnstone Explodes the myth that early modernist architecture was white by offering a riot of colour in modern architectural treatises, polemics, and buildings. Feb 2022 • 41 colour and 69 mono illus 256 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350251335 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Paolo Volonté The first systematic study of fatness and thinness in the fashion industry, this book explores the reasons why fashion producers forgo the plus-size market in favour of the ideal of thinness. Sep 2021 • 9 mono illus • 240 pages 234 x 156mm • 9781350126930 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Sustainable Building Systems and Construction for Designers
25 Concepts in Modern Architecture
Lisa M. Tucker
Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easyto-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations.
Takes a holistic approach, from the structural (site consideration and foundations) to the experiential (indoor air, acoustics, and safety), making a clear case for interior design professionals to understand their moral responsibilities to people and the environment, and to follow sustainable building practices. Jan 2022 • 400 mono illus • 384 pages 280 x 215mm • 3rd edition 9781501364778 • Fairchild Books
A Guide for Visual Thinkers
Stephanie Travis and Catherine Anderson
Sep 2021 • 341 colour illus • 216 pages 230 x 200mm • 9781350055605 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Rights sold: Korean
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