Visual imprint: 193 books
by Dr David Hands
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Vision and Values in Design Management explores the value of design as a key strategic resource that can be utilized in the pursuit of securing a competitive advantage within highly complex and emergent markets.
Throughout the book, David Hands offers contributions from key thinkers and practitioners...
by Dr Michael Nott
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry 1845-2015, a Critical History represents the first...
Childhood by Design
Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys...
From Object to Experience
The New Culture of Architectural Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design.
Today, the sciences have granted...
by Mr Brian Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In keeping with advances in technology, and rapid consumer adoption of new media and new ideas, the possibilities for digital marketing are changing rapidly. This book will guide you through the major trends that exemplify forward thinking and which will continue to inspire great online ideas well...
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film
Inventions of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and exchange between cultures.
While the familiar orientalisms persist, transorientalism is a term that...
The End of Fashion
Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and designers are increasingly treated as 'artists', as fashion moves towards art and enters the gallery, museum,...
Fashion Installation
Body, Space, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion...
by Lynne Mesher
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Basics Interior Design 01: Retail Design approaches the subject of interior design in a retail context. Retail spaces are at the forefront of contemporary interior design because they are updated regularly to stay competitive and appealing This book examines brand and identity as a starting point...
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...
by Derek Brazell, Jo Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator.
This edition features even more 'Spotlight on…' sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission...
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...