Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial...
by Anita Larman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book gives you the basics about about what clothing you need if you have an inverted triangle shaped body. Since you have wide shoulders you need to know tips and techniques for dressing.
The book covers topics on how to wear:
Tops
Trousers
Wedding dresses
Skirts
Pants
Bra
by Marie Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
No matter how often you hear that you look great or that you’re luckier than others, it’s still impossible to avoid the ever-present pressure to be skinny like a model on a billboard. Advertising everywhere focuses on an unrealistic ideal, an image of a woman who looks incredible in every piece...
How to Read a Dress
A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative...
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book
Ponchos, Capes, Coats and More - Fashionable Warmers that are Easy to Sew (Download for Patterns to Print)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This DIY sewing book presents a fabulous new collection of lightweight wraps that are easy to sew and look fantastic!
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book provides five free full-sized patterns that can be used to create 22 timeless wraps to keep the chill off—and look great in the process. All the...
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,...
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...
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...
by Michael Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
"One of my earliest memories is lying on the floor in front of the kitchen fire, drawing..." Michael Foreman During the war, paper was in short supply but, the large biscuit tins delivered to his Mum's shop were lined with white paper. The tins were about twelve inches square, so unfolded,...
The Ad Makers
How the Best TV Commercials are Produced
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Ad-Makers looks at the cinematic form where commerce and creativity collide most dramatically: the TV commercial.
Featuring interviews from top professionals in the field, the book provides the kind of behind-the-scenes expertise that it usually takes a lifetime of professional practice...
Fancy Dresses Described
A Glossary of Victorian Costumes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to hundreds...