Pavilion Books: 614 books
Fashion Portfolio
Design and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The book takes the reader through all the major steps of fashion portfolio creation. It features the main components of the design process from the identification of inspiration sources and fashion trends research to conceptualization of a complete fashion collection. The topics covered include mood/fabric...
by Matt Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history.
This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous...
Cutting and Draping Party and Eveningwear
Dressmaking and pattern cutting for special occasion clothes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This is the complete guide to pattern cutting for special occasion clothes: party dresses and eveningwear. With step-by-step instructions and clear, informative diagrams, Dawn Cloake shows how to develop the basic design blocks to create a wide range of designs, encouraging you to 'mix and match'...
by Gillian Holman
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Bias-cut Dressmaking is the best easy-to-follow guide to bias-cut clothes. It provides step-by-step instructions and diagrams for making over 40 items of clothing that are cut on the bias. The bias-cut technique is used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or...
by Simon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
A practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Gouache is an opaque water-based medium, often called body colour, that produces crisp and vibrant paintings, and is becoming increasingly popular in botanical painting. Leading botanical painter, Simon Williams,...
Learn to Paint People Quickly
A practical, step-by-step guide to learning to paint people in watercolour and oils
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one...
London's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn’t know about Britain’s capital, like the fact that it’s still forbidden to...
3D Fashion Design
Technique, design and visualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products. With this technology, the designer is able to present a lifelike design...
by Paul Littlewood
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
This comprehensive book describes and analyses the intriguing array of tactics available to every chess player. With the help of progressively more difficult exercises and problems, Paul Littlewood shows the reader how to deploy a variety of tactics for attack and how to defend against each type of...
Roadie
My Life On The Road With Coldplay
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
He's been part of the Coldplay family since day one, we love him.' COLDPLAY 'A funny, honest, absorbing account from an unseen member of the World's biggest band.' SIMON PEGG Longtime Coldplay roadie Matt has taken almost every step with the band over a decade of world tours and 40 million (and counting)...
How to Make Money Trading
Everything you need to know to control your financial future
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Now is the time to start trading ; whether youre looking to short sell (bet on a stock going down) or to buy stocks that are currently obviously undervalued ; Lex Van Dam will provide you with all the essential information you need to understand the stock market and trading and how to make money!
The Ballad of Britain
How Music Captured The Soul of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1903, Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that captured the spirit of Great Britain. A century later, writer, presenter and journalist Will Hodgkinson sets out on a similar journey.
Classic Rugby Clangers
Fluffs, fails and foul-ups from the world's rugby pitches
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This hilarious collection of stories taken from over 130 years of rugby history recounts some of the moments their perpetrators would rather forget. A relentlessly high-speed game, rugby is particularly prone to crucial split-second tests of human fallibility and eccentricity, and for every player...
Michael Winner: Winner Takes All
A Life of Sorts
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life. He has a reputation for being outspoken, and, true to form, in his autobiography he tells it like it is with sharp and insightful observations.