Graphic Art category: 1709 books
Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles
Handicrafting as Fan Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic research into fans on the online social network for knitters, crocheters and crafters, Ravelry, Brigid Cherry explores textile...
CRITS
A Student Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
CRITS: A Student Manual is a practical guide to help art and design students obtain maximum benefits from the most common method of teaching these subjects in college: the studio critique. CRITS positions studio critiques as positive, productive, and inspirational means to foster development – not...
Dialoghi di filo / Dialogues of thread
Produzione – formazione – creazione / Production – training – creation
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Collana QUADERNI DI CULTURA TESSILE diretta da Livia Crispolti Dialoghi di filo propone un esempio concreto di modalità operativa nel campo del tessile, valorizzando le proficue connessioni esistenti tra il settore dell’Alta Formazione Artistica, le realtà produttive italiane e il mondo delle...
Nothing Is Lost
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.
For...
by Janet Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
"Jewelry Making For Beginners" is a text that not only highlights the basics of making various types of jewelry, it also goes just a bit further into the process without making it overwhelming for the beginner. The aim that the author has with this text is to inform and educate and make...
Type on Screen
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies—from electronic...
Drawing Ideas
A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A primer for design professionals across all disciplines that helps them create compelling and original concept designs by hand--as opposed to on the computer--in order to foster collaboration and win clients. In today's design world, technology for expressing ideas is pervasive; CAD models and renderings...
by Trino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2015
En un reino muy pero muy lejano, existían unos Lacayos, unos Lugones, unos Bufones, unos Dragones, unos Verdugos, un Mago y una Reina de Fantasía… ¡Ah! Y también un Grandioso Rey… pero Chiquito.
by Donna Karan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Este libro detalla los inicios de Karan, el desarrollo del concepto "Siete prendas sencillas" y el ascenso meteórico de su compañía, así como su relación con su familia y su turbulenta vida romántica.
Una autobiografía controvertida y sincera, en la que la reconocida diseñadora...
The Toaster Project
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2007
Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins-áThe Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster...
by Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Actors often say they only really assume the identity of their character when they have donned the costumes painstakingly created for them by the costume designer. In this volume of the FilmCraft series of books, 16 of the world's leading costume designers come together to share their inspiration...
by Susan Ruddick Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Have you ever considered using Photoshop to create fine art?
Photoshop is usually used for enhancing photos, but this extremely powerful software package is capable of so much more. Every feature, from brushes to background, can be customised and optimised for artistic effect. With a little...
by Lisa Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
What is Creativity?Unfortunately, very few people truly understand the meaning of the word "creative". Most think it's synonymous with the word "artistic", and that you must have some innate or learned artistic talent or skill, or even a degree in traditional media and artistic techniques....
True Style
The History and Principles of Classic Menswear
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a shirt, tie, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Yet, how many of us just throw on, well, whatever each morning? How many understand the subtleties of selecting the right pair of socks or the most compatible...