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The Story of the Chanel Bag: Timeless. Elegant. Iconic.

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Report copyright infringementby Laia Farran Graves (Author)The Chanel handbag is a global symbol of style, craftsmanship and status. Since the release of the 2.55 in 1955, Chanel has produced a series of iconic designs - from classic staples to rare, limited editions. This beautiful photographic guide explores the full spectrum, from wearable art pieces like the beaded lucite Cage Flap and the discontinued Diana, to cult favourites like the So Black and the Graffiti backpack. Learn about the ...

Vintage Lined Notebook Greetings from Abiquiu, New Mexico

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Report copyright infringementby Found Image Press (Producer)Introducing the Vintage Notebook: Greetings from Abiquiu, New Mexico, a delightful companion for all your writing endeavors. Featuring 150 lined pages, immerse yourself in the charm of a classic vintage travel postcard illustration adorning its cover. With its full-color decorative vintage art and versatile functionality, this notebook is an ideal companion for journaling, planning trips, tackling writing projects, organizing to-do l...

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Report copyright infringementby Youngmin Lee (Author)A creative guide to a unique and beautiful form of Korean art, steeped in ancient tradition. Bojagi are textiles that wrap, cover, carry, or store objects. Some are made from whole pieces of fabric and some are patched together from small scraps of cloth - they are a unique form of Korean textile art. The careful arrangement of shapes and colours shows an abstract composition which has made bojagi popular with textile artists and quilters t...

The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Nyburg (Other)In 1949, Walter and Eva Neurath founded Thames & Hudson with a clear aim: to make art and scholarship more accessible through independent publishing that was prepared to risk being ahead of the curve. Seventy-five years later, their original vision of creating a "museum without walls" still resonates. As well as publishing beautifully designed and produced books in collaboration with the world's leading artists, writers, museums, cultural...

Design Hacking: Resourceful Innovation and Sustainable Self-Reliance

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Burnham (Author)"Exceedingly well written and comprehensive." - Core77"Hacking is really just today's name for the personal creative spirit that has always underpinned human ingenuity," writes Scott Burnham. Throughout this essay he traces hacking's evolution from the digital to the analogue world and shows how the resourceful spirit behind hacking is improving everything from design products to cities and public space.The essay features insight Burnham g...

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Report copyright infringementby Magdi El Messiry (Author)There is increasing interest in the area of protective vests, either for protection against bullets or protection from the most realistic threats within domestic frontline operations: edged weapon, knives, and medical needles. This volume addresses that need. This new book provides an in-depth survey of the state-of-the-art research and practical techniques in the area of protected fabrics, especially stab-resistant and bulletproof fabr...

Ackermann's Repository Fashion Prints 1815-1818

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Report copyright infringementby Susana Ellis (Author)A Regency romance author compiled a comprehensive list of all the London fashion prints and commentary from all twenty years of Ackermann's Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics, to which she added annual timelines of important historic events. While this volume was created for the use of authors of historical fiction, it may also appeal to anyone interested in historical women's fashion.This volume ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elmarie Costandius (Editor), Herman Botes (Editor)Educating Citizen Designers in South Africa is the first book of its kind to appear in post-apartheid South Africa and it is therefore both overdue and extremely welcome. The book aims at sharing critical citizenship design teaching and learning pedagogies by including contributions from a range of design educators, and one student, who work in different design disciplines, such as architecture, graphic and prod...

Illustrated Men: Drawing and Rendering the Male Fashion Figure

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Report copyright infringementby Lamont O'Neal (Author)Delve into the art of menswear illustration and learn what it takes to create professional, praiseworthy fashion sketches. With over 300 color examples, illustrator and educator Lamont O'Neal uses a mixture of watercolor, marker, pencil and digital tools to help you master fundamentals such as anatomy and proportion. Later chapters focus on garment drawing, the principles of balance and movement as well classic poses and how they can highl...

Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Heike Jenss (Author), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)The valuing of old clothes as "vintage" and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon. This book illuminates sartorial and bodily engagements with memory and time through the temporal and nostalgic potency of fashion, and what this means for contemporary wearers. Based on in-depth ethnographic resea...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosemary Brinley (Author)This early manual is a fascinating read for any needlework enthusiast or historian. Extensively illustrated with drawings and diagrams it forms a complete how-to guide to needlework. 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 artwor...

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Report copyright infringementby A. Michael (Author)Uppers, Leather and Findings is a vintage catalogue of shoe and boot parts and accessories published by New York shoe manufacturer Michael Arthur. Also including some short anecdotes, jokes, and even poetry, this illustrated little volume will appeal to those with an interest in historical footwear, and it would make for a charming addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Postal Law", "Stand From Under Uppers Reduced",...

Dress and Care of the Feet; Showing Their Natural Shape and Construction; How Corns, Bunions, Flat Feet, and Other Deformities Are Caused: With Instru

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Report copyright infringementby J. L. Peck (Author)This vintage book contains a complete handbook on foot care, with a special focus on the importance of good-quality and well-fitted shoes. Essentially, it is a guidebook with hints for those who wear and those who make shoes and boots, with directions on picking and wearing shoes for health, performance, and function. It also describes various causes of foot deformities and common ailments, providing advice on how these can be minimised or av...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Kohn (Author)"Facts About Precious Stones" contains a useful guide to precious stones, originally written to offer the reader a concise handbook containing facts related to precious stones and the rules for their selection. Written in simple language and including invaluable expert tips, this volume will appeal to those looking for an introduction to the subject of precious stones and what should be looked out for when buying or inspecting them. Conten...

Going Real: The Value of Design in the Era of PostCapitalism - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Marco Petroni (Author), Giovanni Innella (Author), Craig Bremner (Foreword by)In the age of post-capitalism, what is the value of design? Is value defined by economic potential? Or is it something far less tangible? Now more than ever design has the ability to engage us in economic, political and cultural debate, to actively resist the monotony of daily life, and to counteract the precarious situation on which modern society seems to rest. Positioning itself as...

Thinking Made Visible: Movement, Narrative, and the Work of Saul Bass

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob Dickerson (Author)Author BiographyJacob A. Dickerson is an associate professor of communication at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and teaches courses in media studies and production. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2012 and has published work on the connection between place and identity, the use of popular music in the classroom, and gender in country music. His work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Public Understanding of S...

Lucy and the Judge: Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

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Report copyright infringementby Michael H. Hoeflich (Author), Stephen Sheppard (Author)With this fun collection, Mike Hoeflich and Steve Sheppard invite readers to explore the story behind an iconic American contract law case, Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon. In addition to personal reflections from the authors on the case and its legacy, it includes a brief summary of existing scholarship about the case and the parties, a reprint of the contract and Judge Cardozo's opinion, and selections fro...

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Report copyright infringementby Stefan Hollos (Author), J. Richard Hollos (Author)There are 50 unique patterns in this book, each on its own physical page. The authors have for many years been obsessed with finding patterns in nature and in mathematics. This is just a very small sample of some of the interesting patterns they have discovered. The patterns are named after the German mathematician Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829-1900). He did not directly produce them, but they are related to som...

Journey Maps: Step-by-Step Guide Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Curedale (Author)A journey map provides a big picture of customer experience and identifies where they feel good or bad when using a product or service. It will help you create a better experience for your customers who will support faster growth and more profitability for your business. Creating a journey map helps align your team, your organization and your customers around the common goal and shared vision of happy customers. A journey map is usually ...

Empathy Maps: Step-by-step Guide 2nd Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Curedale (Author)An empathy map is a fast and inexpensive tool to gain insight into what motivates and is most important to your customers. Mapping is used to document what you know about a particular type of user. Empathy maps were originally created by Dave Gray, the founder, and chairman of Xplane. Empathy maps are created in the early stages of a design process after initial research and persona definition and before ideation. Empathy maps help your ...

Small Presses in the Rocky Mountain West: Profiles of four private presses originally located in Wyoming and Montana and their proprietors

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Report copyright infringementby Richard L. Hardesty (Author)The small/private press movement in the United States has been the subject of many books and articles, but coverage has historically been concentrated to those presses located on either coast or the mid-continent. The Rocky Mountain states have generally been neglected in the past. This work seeks to begin to correct that oversight. In it, four presses located in Montana and Wyoming are covered. Each press biography reviews the backg...

Awesome Animal Coloring Books: Best Animal Coloring book for ever ! 100+ pages awesome illistration will be best for christmas gift

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Report copyright infringementby Coloring Book Press (Author)Best Big 100+ Coloring Pages book for Animal Lovers This is big 100+ several type cute design Coloring book will be perfect for every one and Christmas Day gift also. It is perfect for gift for all coloring book lovers. Here we include Increasingly more complex with flower, mandala, toys, Horse, Elephant, Deer, unicorn, owls, pattern designs as you progress through the book. It will be help Your skills grow as you color design.Why Yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Örmen (Author)CHANEL is one of the best-known luxury brands in the world. Yet it remains the most mysterious of them all. From Paris and rue Cambon, CHANEL will forever be Gabrielle - a woman who revolutionized feminine elegance. Carefree and audacious, the designer turned simplicity into the height of luxury. Bold and unpredictable, the brand, now over 100 years old, continues to astound with its one-of-a-kind fashion shows, iconic N 5 perfume and 2...

Freelance Fashion Designer's Handbook - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Keech (Author)Do you have the passion and the creativity for fashion? Why not earn a living from it? The Freelance Fashion Designer's Handbook is your essential guide on how to go it alone, covering what to expect, making sure you get paid, planning your time, keeping up with your accounts, compiling technical packages for garments. It is your portable mentor, equipping you to work independently. Part 1 covers all the information to becoming a freelance ...

The Changing Face of Burberry: Britishness, Heritage, Labour and Consumption

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Report copyright infringementby Siân Weston (Author)Global fashion markets, particularly those aimed at prosperous millennial consumers in China, are in thrall to Burberry, and connect the company's output in the 21st century to a quintessential notion of British tradition. The Changing Face of Burberry examines how the company successfully built this sense of tradition and how it has retained and capitalized on it within contemporary consumer culture. Charting the company's modest beginnings...

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Report copyright infringementby Victionary (Author)A follow-up to their 2020 monograph, Stockholm Design Lab: 1998-2025 makes the journey of one of the world's leading design agencies more accessible to all. Condensed from the original 500-page volume, it also includes new projects that highlight the agency's latest innovations alongside behind-the-scenes insights, mock-ups, and never-before-seen images. Showcasing SDL's ideas and transformative impact, this updated edition is an invaluable r...

Cutting-Edge Arts, Fine Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Yelle (Author)Why is origami important for aerospace engineering? How can artisanal weaving save the lives of children with heart defects? What can a choreographer teach the public about the moon landing?Cutting-Edge Arts, Fine Sciences: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Innovation answers these questions and more as it explores the surprising ways in which the sciences and the arts are mutually reinforcing partners.This book highlights impactful collaborat...

The Ransom Note Sticker Book: Thousands of Letters for Your Anonymous Messages

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Herriott (Author)Award-winning graphic designer and author Luke Herriott invites you to create uniquely idiosyncratic messages or decorate your stuff with these fun alphabets.Everyone loves the cool graphic look of the classic ransom note, and letters cut from newspapers make any message a little edgy yet playful. The Ransom Note Sticker Book makes it easy to spell out anything you like and capture that unique look.Thousands of stickers--A-to-Z, plus accen...

Sketch Your Style: A Guided Sketchbook for Drawing Your Dream Wardrobe

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Report copyright infringementby Robyn Neild (Author)From fashion illustrator Robyn Neild, Sketch Your Style is a fully interactive guided sketchbook for anyone who enjoys fashion and loves to doodle, sketch, and draw. Learn how to draw a croquis, facial features, and foot proportions; add texture to clothing; and much more. In this book, you'll find step-by-step instructions for drawing and personalizing figures, and more than 50 inspirational exercises and prompts that will help you bring y...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicola L. C. Talbot (Author)This is a follow-on from "LaTeX for Complete Novices" by the same author. This book concentrates on typesetting aspects usually required in a PhD thesis, such as displaying code listings, algorithms and glossaries. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.35 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: March 19, 2013

On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Facio (Editor), Nneka Kai (Editor), L. Vinebaum (Editor)A journey through the rich histories of textiles that explores their significant cultural roles, from memorializing lost loved ones to resisting oppression From ancient Egyptian shrouds to medieval relics, textiles have played both functional and symbolic roles in rituals of death across time and place. Featuring funeral hangings, mourning samplers, garments, and many other textiles and fragments, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Phaidon Editors (Author)'The fashion bible.' - VogueThe global bestseller, showcasing more than 500 of fashion's greatest names from A-ZPhaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning almost 200 years, the entire fashion industry is represented: from designers to photographers, stylists, and retailers, as well as editors and creative directors.Back in print in a chi...