Bloomsbury Visual Arts imprint: 136 books
Network Nature
The Place of Nature in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the ailment.
In Network Nature, Richard Coyne...
Spacewear
Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and fictional, and has caused fashion design and spacesuit engineering to intersect in new, exciting ways. Spacewear...
Menswear Revolution
The Transformation of Contemporary Men’s Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In recent years, menswear has moved decisively center stage. Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men's fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its increasing diversity has created new ways for men to explore and express their identities. Harnessing sustained...
Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond
Influence, Process and Afterlife since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time. Inspired...
Key Modern Architects
50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing...
The Publishing Business
A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Publishing Business, is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become. Using popular and current examples, this second edition demonstrates that, to succeed, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural...
Sustainable Thinking
Ethical Approaches to Design and Design Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Sustainable Thinking explores how values and sustainability can reshape the way design management is practised and applied. The book discusses how designers can combine innovative creative thinking with analytical problem-solving skills to produce outputs that are business ready and ethically driven.
Examples...
Nordic Classicism
Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history.
It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions, rather than...
City of Play
An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords – play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful...
by John Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Communicate your ideas and designs through a variety of sketches, drawings and expressive illustrations, with guidance from a seasoned professional. With more than 150 colour examples, John Hopkins takes you through the different styles, techniques and approaches to drawing in the fashion industry.
This...
Architecture, Media, and Memory
Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond.
Yet...
An Introduction to Service Design
Designing the Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it.
Despite its intrinsic multidisciplinarity, service design is a new specialization...
by Hayden Noel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Basics Marketing 01: Consumer Behaviour examines the relationship between consumers and culture, and the impact of current trends on consumer behaviour. It explores the different ways in which consumers around the world respond to marketing strategies, examining the interpretation of new stimuli using...