General Design category: 1730 books
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
Handmade Bags In Natural Fabrics
Over 25 Easy-To-Make Purses, Totes and More (Tuttle Sewing Books)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Make your own charming purse, tote, clutch, satchel or eco tote with this fashionable bag making book.
Handmade Bags in Natural Fabrics offers patterns for twenty-five basic bag styles along with sixty variations and the know-how to customize each bag to suit any style—from sweet-and innocent...
Building Better Brands
A Comprehensive Guide to Brand Strategy and Identity Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Building Better Brands is the essential guide to creating and evolving brands. Leveraging three decades of brand consulting for legendary companies like Caterpillar, Harley-Davidson, 3M, Owens-Illinois, National Australia Bank, and American Express, as well as middle-market and new-media startups,...
Think Stats
Exploratory Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge, using tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.
By working with a single...
Even Faster Web Sites
Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable...
Complete Web Monitoring
Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions.
Complete Web Monitoring...
LogoLounge 8
2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
LogoLounge 8 is judged by an international panel of identity designers including Mikey Burton, Quique Ollervides, Katie Kirk, Fraser Davidson, Debbie Millman, Ty Mattson, Mike Abbink, and Simon Frouws. Of the more than 35,000 logos submitted, 2,000 were selected to be featured in the 8th edition...
by Amanda Vickery
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The Children's Dream of Fairy-Land (1893) . . . Living Statues on Horseback (1890s) . . . Real Roman Hippodrome, Five Continent Menagerie (1890s) . . . Uno, Queen Supreme of the Serpent Kingdom (1894) . . . Dancing Girls, Mounted Guards and Truly Lavish Displays (1903) . . . "Twisting Double...
by Thomas von Nordheim
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Traditional tailoring is a fascinating craft, which has not changed for many centuries, however, the techniques are now known only by a few practising in the best couture ateliers and bespoke tailor's workrooms. Nothing feels quite so luxurious or sophisticated as bespoke clothes, but the tailoring...
Stylish Skirts
23 Easy-to-Sew Designs to Flatter Every Figure
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Sew chic and original skirts with this stylish DIY sewing book.
Stylish Skirts allows you to create simple yet stylish skirts that look and feel great—at a fraction of the cost of store-bought fashion. With this sewing book, there's no end to the kinds of skirts you can create to match your...
by Ruth M. Shaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers- in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.
From kimono and armor to undergarments,...
by Fiona MacCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.
'A wonderfully detailed account of his personality - so vivid, you feel you know just what it would have been...
Modern Quilts
Designs of the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Admire large, color photographs of the best modern quilting has to offer—more than 200 quilts curated by the Modern Quilt Guild. From the Amish and Gee’s Bend to the first use of the word "modern” in quilting, trace the history of modern quilts and learn about hallmarks of the genre in a concise...