Design, Industrial & commercial arts, illustration Books

The tumultuous events during and after two world wars changed society forever.The new status of women no longer prepared to be tied to the home, a major re-adjustment of the class system, the pill and new sexual mores.Clothes and fashion played an...

The SILE Book is a user's and developer's guide to SILE, a computer typesetting system for creating beautiful documents. Written by the system's author, it provides definitive information on creating documents, extending SILE through creating new...

Read this book and you will learn how to:1.     use the main principles of professionally looking designs2.     create a composition and use visual weight, balance, and flow, in order to emphasize your...

In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people's...

Learning is essential to be a good fashion designer. This is a book about the science and technology of fashion design. It includes the following: —sewing—creativity—tools to draft the basic—the colour of the...

Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years. Over the last few decades, precision engineering has been the specific focus of research on an international scale. The outcome of this effort has been the...

This antique book contains a detailed guide to the designing and making of hats. This text was written for those who need a guide in technique when preparing for an examination, such as those of the City and Guilds of London Institute as well as for...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

This text contains a detailed guide to painting, furniture finishing, and repairing, and includes a wealth of helpful information on tools, materials, and technique. A book that is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in the making or restoring of...

This antique book contains a comprehensive 'How-To' for general leathercrafting. Complete with a plethora of helpful photographs and diagrams, this guide is perfect for the beginner, and also serves as a great reference guide for other levels of ability...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of invaluable tips, this...

This early work is a fascinating read for amateur and professional antiquarians, thoroughly recommended for use as a reference on shaker furniture. Forty-seven full page plates with descriptions follow a lengthy introduction on all aspects of Shaker...

This fascinating early work is a catalogue of furniture and decoration with hundreds of photographs detailing historical styles. Thoroughly recommended for the antiquarian's bookshelf. Contents Include: Part I - The Development of Decoration -...

This early work is fascinating read for sewing enthusiasts and contains much information that is useful and practical today. Its 240 pages are extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs and 18 full page plates, forming a complete how-to guide...

This early work is a fascinating read for any antique enthusiast or historian. Its 191 pages are extensively illustrated with full page and text plates. Contents Include: The Colonial Styles - Jacobean or Stuart, William and Mary, queen Anne-Early...

This as a fascinating read for any sewing enthusiast or historian, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. It will prove of much interest to both the amateur and professional dressmaker. Its 398 pages contain...

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.This book...

De Vascvlis Pictis Tarentinis Capita Selecta est liber a Carolo Watzinger anno MDCCCXCIX editus, qui de vasculis pictis Tarentinis agit. In hoc libro, Watzinger capita selecta exponit, quae de arte Tarentina vasculorum pictorum et eius historia tradunt...

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology. It explains in detail the five phases, and it relates its significance to national, international, and customer specific standards. It...

This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the...

In this book, Henri de Noussanne provides a detailed account of the history of furniture design. The book covers the evolution of furniture design from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, with a particular focus on the French aesthetic. The book is an...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Discovery Design is a handbook for healthcare innovators who want to address the most important challenges facing patients, families, clinicians, and healthcare organizations. Leveraging the best ideas from the worlds of design thinking, healthcare...

Many designers can create a logo. But only 'brilliant designers' create a lasting relationship with their client.Written for working art studios, Logo Process is the art director’s guide to create BIG logos for small business. It can be...

From his Repository of the Arts at 101 The Strand, London, the Anglo-German engineer, printer and entrepreneur Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) published numerous lavishly illustrated books on literature, art, fashion and architecture. His shop, one of the...

Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book explores the role...

The Digital Gaming Handbook covers the state-of-the-art in video and digital game research and development, from traditional to emerging elements of gaming across multiple disciplines. Chapters are presented with applicability across all gaming platforms...

The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is dominated by major Western brands. The dominance of such major brands extends to burgeoning Asian markets. These conglomerates often rely on packaging as a strategic tool to entice Asian consumers. This book...

"Legs. Illustrated. Leonardo Glauso" is a Book with illustrations drawn by the artist Leonardo Glauso.Leonardo Glauso was born in Florence in 2/12/1989. Leonardo is an Italian artist, a photographer, illustrator and much more .He has a degree in Graphic...

दो पात्रों का यह नाटक एक लेखक के रहस्यमय जीवन और लेखन से एक-एक कर कई पर्दे उठाता है। गडग़ड़ सूफी एक जासूस है, जो उसके चर्चित-पुरस्कृत उपन्यासों की सच्चाई की तस्दीक अखबारी कतरनों से करता चलता है और एक दिन आकर लेखक को बताता है कि मुझे मालूम है कि आपने जो...

पीयूष मिश्रा जब मंच पर होते हैं तो वहाँ उनके अलावा सिर्फ़ उनका आवेग दिखता है। जिन लोगों ने उन्हें मंडी हाउस में एकल करते देखा है, वे ऊर्जा के उस वलय को आज भी उसी तरह गतिमान देख पाते होंगे। अपने गीत, अपने संगीत, अपनी देह और अपनी कला में आकंठ एकमेक एक...

वो अब भी पुकारता है' नाटक से पता चलता है कि भारत मेँ जिस जाति की समस्या को बहुत पहले ख़त्म हो जाना चाहिए था, वह आधुनिक युग की इस सदी में भी अपनी जड़े जमाए हुए है । और न सिर्फ जड़े जमाए हुए है बल्कि उसके अन्तर को बनाए रखने के लिए श्रेष्ठ वर्ण किसी भी हद तक...

Have you ever tried to explain what quality is? Let's say you know perfectly well how to develop a quality product, but your arguments are undermined all the time by fragmented details. Time and again you have to step back to sort out the details, in...

BEAUTIFUL MANDALA EASY and RELAXING The book is designed on different skill levels, from beginner to expert and this coloring pages will help you relax and reduce your stress while improving your creativity by the way you want to color the patterns...

Kommt das Ihnen bekannt vor? Sie sehen sich die Urlaubsfotos an und irgendwie wirken diese zu Hause betrachtet viel matter und auch ganz anders als auf dem Kameradisplay. Möchten Sie aus verschiedenen fotografischen Erinnerungen ein Wandbild oder eine...

This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics or computer science, as a tool for solving real-world design problems. The present work covers fundamentals in multi-objective optimization and applications in...

This book addresses the principles involved in the design and engineering of planing monohull power boats, with an emphasis on the theoretical fundamentals that readers need in order to be fully functional in marine design and engineering. Author William...

This concise reference helps readers avoid the most commonplace errors in generating or interpreting engineering drawings. Applicable across multiple disciplines, Hanifan's lucid treatment of such essential skills as...