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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - And Helped Save an American Town

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Report copyright infringementby Beth Macy (Author)The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to s...

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Report copyright infringementby David H. Dudley (Author)This 350+ page user-friendly book, with hundreds of photos, tables, and illustrations, and easy to follow instructions shows you 'step-by-step' how to produce an abundance of fresh organic produce and healthy delicious fish through a media-bed (flood-and-drain) aquaponic system. This VALUABLE resource addresses everything from beginner basics to enlarging an existing system to fish breeding to growing your own fish feed; and so much more...

The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

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Report copyright infringementby Galen Cranz (Author)Perhaps no other object of our daily environment has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully shaping the physical and social dimensions of our lives. With over ninety illustrations, this book traces the history of the chair as we know it from its crudest beginnings up through the modern office variety. Drawing on anecdotes, literary references, and famous designs, Galen Cranz documents o...

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Report copyright infringementby Howard I. Chapelle (Author), Jon Wilson (Foreword by)Written primarily for the beginner, the book first gives directions for the use of tools, and suggestions for material and other equipment. Successive chapters cover specific problems relating to the preliminary design, the lines, construction and joiner plan, and sail plans, with full discussion and directions for the handling of the many problems involved. Of very real importance is the chapter describing i...

The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Craik (Author)First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion is dictated by elite designers and opinion leaders with evidence of a trickle-up effect from sub-cultures, mass consumer behaviour and everyday bricolage of fashion items. The text address...

British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?

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Report copyright infringementby Angela McRobbie (Author)British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stres...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Ann Bowers (Author)This invaluable handbook, provides clear definitions and distinctions between the terms and helps to navigate the complexities of magic, magical and marvellous realism within art and literary criticism.Author BiographyMaggie Ann Bowers teaches American and Canadian literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has published numerous articles on contemporary American and Canadian authors, and is the co-editor of Convergences and...

The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

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Report copyright infringementby Eugenia Paulicelli (Editor), Hazel Clark (Editor)Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays investigate lo...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Norman (Author)The essential guide to human-centered design "Even more relevant today than it was when first published."--Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.   The fault, argues this ingenious--even liberating--book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Benson (Author)Ann Benson shares the professional methods and practices that will bring your bead embroidery to a whole new level. Using her unique design and technological skills, Ann brings you over one hundred designs, motifs, and templates that you can develop according to your own color taste and end use. Combine, crop, repeat, recolor and resize, it's all up to you!Explore the many materials and surfaces on which you can do bead embroidery. Learn how ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Arnold (Author), Marianne Egan (Author)The fast and easy way to learn the art of fashion drawing This fun guide gives you dozens of step-by-step diagrams that walk you through the process of preparing creative illustrations that you can later develop into dynamic presentations for your design portfolio. Plus, you'll not only learn how to draw clothes and fabric, but also how to show details that make up the total look: faces and hairstyles, fashion accents...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn McKelvey (Author), Janine Munslow (Author)Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results can be achieved if the right processes are followed in the early design process. Fashion Design sets out basic principles and exercises in order to make fashion des...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Josephine (Author)This book is for the 'others'. For anyone who's ever felt othered. For us lot. Who deserve celebration and opportunity. Each one is written with love, with the actor in mind. I hope they make your body feel fizzy, I hope they get you all the jobs, I hope your flowers bloom. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 31, 2022

A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Clair (Author), Cynthia Busic-Snyder (Author)Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 images, A Typographic Workbook, Second Edition explains the process successful designers use to select, space, and creatively integrate fonts. This essential text demonstrates the use of type as a dynamic and expressive communication tool. This edition provides new and updated coverage of a broad range of topics-from a logical, clear historical overview of the craft to the...

African Designs from Traditional Sources

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Williams (Author)Linocut prints in crisp black-and-white designs reflect traditional work from Zulu, Masai, and dozens of other tribes. Masks, abstract motifs, and much more. 378 illustrations.Back JacketSince the discovery of African art by the Cubists, the primitive strength of its motifs has held a fascination for contemporary artists and designers and has exercised a considerable infl uence on the development of modern art. This book brings togethe...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Enciso (Author)This is a sourcebook and treasury of unique designs, in a collection never published before--300 original motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs, and others--all ready for use by the artist, illustrator, designer, hobbyist, and handicrafter. As an inexpensive source of unusual themes, this volume is unparalleled.The designs were found on malacates, small clay spindle weights or whorls made by the pre-Conquest peoples of Mexico and...

French Fashion Illustrations of the Twenties: 634 Cuts from La Vie Parisienne

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Belanger Grafton (Author), Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor)Treasury of royalty-free motifs from famed periodical, drawn with wit, flair, and charm. Slinky beauties in a variety of gowns, dresses, coats, suits, beachwear, and other stylish outfits.Back JacketWomen's fashions of the 1920s continue to fascinate artists, couturiers, and students of fashion, who will welcome this treasury of French designs from that dazzling era. Carefully selected from rare is...

Pugin's Gothic Ornament: The Classic Sourcebook of Decorative Motifs with 100 Plates

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Report copyright infringementby Augustus C. Pugin (Author)One hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements.Back JacketAn architect and archaeologist born in France, Augustus Charles Pugin (1762-1832) fled to England during the Revolution and worked there for 17 years in the London office of the no...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan X. Solo (Author)Compiled by noted typographer and type historian Dan X. Solo, this attractive collection of royalty-free lettering for commercial artists features 100 complete upper-case stencil alphabets (many with lower-case fonts, numerals, and punctuation marks).Included are such magnificent classic fonts as Ancient, Courtland, and Cleft Gothic; whimsical Ragtime and Spooks Alive; bold Braggadocio; exotic Limbo, Beijing, and Samoa; and old-fashioned Vic...

Authentic Designs from the American Arts and Crafts Movement

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor)The aesthetic achievements of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which dominated decorative arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become an increasingly popular subject of study and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and designers. This beautiful book presents over 400 copyright-free designs by 80 artists whose appealing and superbly finished works clearly reflect the ideals and sensibilities of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hajime Ouchi (Author)The 746 designs contained in this volume represent some of the most ingenious and attractive applications of geometrical and optical motifs to be found today. Taken from an authentic, modern Japanese work, they are an intriguing new source of unique design elements for artists, designers, and illustrators.The designs employ circles, dots, squares, ellipses, curves, lines, angles, complete alphabets, and numbers in a seeming infinitude of ba...

Persian Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftsmen

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Report copyright infringementby Ali Dowlatshahi (Author)Outstanding collection of 400 motifs: floral designs, geometrics, arabesques, mythical creatures, rosettes, paisley patterns, palmettes, medallions, border and marginal decorations, scrolls, curves, and hunting scenes.Back JacketOver the centuries, Persia (Iran) has borne the brunt of periodic invasions. Elements of these foreign cultures, including Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Mongolian, and European influences, were incorporated into the na...

Traditional Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople

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Report copyright infringementby Madeleine Orban-Szontagh (Author)Re-create a lovely spray of wild roses that once bloomed in abundance on an early nineteenth-century fabric. Duplicate a lush Persian floral print from a kerchief worn in the waning days of the acien régime. These and dozens of other superb royalty-free designs -- adapted from patterns on antique textiles -- are available now to artists and craftspeople in this attractive collection.A noted artist and surface designer has master...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan X. Solo (Author)For this impressive collection, typographer and print historian Dan X. Solo has selected 100 fonts, many of which are reminiscent of the old-fashioned print styles found on turn-of-the-century posters and broadsides. Alphabets such as the attention-getting Carnival, Frolic, and Houdini fondly recall that era. Others are attractions themselves, including the foreign-looking Armenian and Tokyo; the eerie Monster Outline and Raindrops; and the ...

Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy S. Sides (Author)The decorative art of the Indians of the American Southwest has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful art traditions in the primitive world. It demonstrates a technical skill with simple materials, a symbolic richness, and a faculty for creating rich effects by the imaginative use of ornament that are all almost unique. Museums use Pueblo ceramics for display pieces, and modern artists and crafters have turned eagerly to the...

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Report copyright infringementby Rudolf Koch (Author)This unusual collection of primitive and medieval symbols provides one of the most fertile single sources of decorative ideas available today. It is also a graphic history of the development of written communication and offers a singular insight into the psychology of the primitive mind. The Book of Signs contains 493 classified and documented illustrations, collected, drawn, and explained by the celebrated typographer Rudolf Koch. Divided i...

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Report copyright infringementby Aubrey Beardsley (Author)In the brief span of his life and career, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) galvanized public attention in 1890s London with his exotic renderings of subjects, which often projected the sensual and the grotesque. This splendid volume brings together the best of Beardsley's work -- a rich selection ranging from illustrations for Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Balzac's La Comédie Humaine to magazine cover designs, book plate silhouettes, ...

How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades

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Report copyright infringementby Popular Mechanics Co (Author)Mission-style architecture and furniture, popular in this country shortly after the turn of the century, was an offshoot of the 19th-century English Arts and Crafts Movement. Deploring machine-age artificiality, Mission furniture sought to blend beauty, simplicity, and utility in an organic unity. Today, Mission-style furniture is enjoying a renascence among craftspeople who admire its unpretentious charms. Among the most appealing ...

Victorian Patterns and Designs for Artists and Designers

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor)Over 150 patterns selected from rare 19th-century publications. Florals, foliates, geometrics, and many other motifs ready to add period flavor to almost any project. Indispensable for textile, package and graphic designers.Back JacketThe intricacy, elegance, and charm of Victorian decorative art continue to attract a broad spectrum of contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople. Now they can draw on this treasury of excelle...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan X. Solo (Editor)The turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement revitalized many art-craft domains, including of course typography. One sidelight to the typographic art, but one in which many printers specialized, was the typographical ornament -- long a tradition among the very earliest printers, once again brought to the avant garde of design. The best American and European printers offered whole catalogs of original ornament in the Art Nouveau manner --...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Nesbitt (Editor)This unusual Dover publication presents a singular opportunity to the artist, crafter, designer, illustrator, printer, or other user of letter designs to have always at hand a rich store of inspiration and a swipe-file. More important, you may reproduce any initial or alphabet in this volume free of charge, without asking permission. The work is all royalty-free; when you buy the book, you buy the reproduction rights to any individual ...