Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

 

Description*

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.

Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects.

 

 

HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World

 

Description*

HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World is ideal for any web designer or developer who wants to start using the latest generation of web technologies in their everyday work.

This book will teach you how to:

• understand the new semantic markup available in HTML5
• use CSS3 to make sites beautiful without sacrificing clean markup or resorting to complex workarounds
• employ native HTML5 video and audio in your pages
• use web fonts to enrich a site's typography
• make web applications accessible using WAI-ARIA
• make the most of the new HTML form elements.

 

The Fashion Designer’s Textile Directory: A Guide to Fabric’s Properties, Characteristics, and Garment-Design Potential

 

Description*

This valuable materials directory for professional dressmakers and fashion designers is also a good reference source for students of fashion design, as well as for those who make their own garments. The author points out the best fabrics for creating specific garments, explaining how each fabric's qualities make it suitable for various items of apparel. Knowing which fabrics can support a structured silhouette is fundamental to fashion design, and this book explains the use of stiff or crisply textured fabrics for tailored garments, as well as soft textured fabrics for rounded forms. Ornamentation is also discussed, and includes advice on how to work with different fabrics to create what author Gail Baugh classifies as opulent, simple, and in-between decorative effects. 

 

 

The Web Collection Revealed: Adobe, Dreamweaver CS6, Flash CS6, Photoshop CS 6

 

Description*

You can now maximize and integrate the design and development power of Adobe Creative Suite 6 with The Web Collection Revealed. This one-of-a-kind text features Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop in one resource, and provides practical experience with each software application through projects and learner-friendly tutorials. Also, a full chapter on integration demonstrates how to move effortlessly from one application to another, while Power User Shortcuts and New Features icons point out key changes effective with the release of CS6. The Web Collection Revealed provides the information and practice you need to build professional-quality websites, using all three of these Adobe applications. The Data Files used to complete the projects found in the book are now available online. For access information please refer to the directions available in the preface of the book. 

 

 

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual

 

Description*

JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects—but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.

 

 

Color and Design

 

Description*

From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design, interior design, and product design.

Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international scholars and practitioners, the book explores colour as an individual and cultural phenomenon, as a pragmatic device for communication, and as a valuable marketing tool.
 

 

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

 

Description*

Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.

 

 

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Revealed

 

Description*

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Revealed offers you comprehensive coverage in all areas of Adobe Illustrator. Beginning with fundamental concepts and progressing to in-depth exploration of the software's full set of features, these step-by-step lessons offer you a guided tour of all the program's great features - including an illustrated tutorial on "how to draw with the Pen tool" that you won't find in any other book. This new edition highlights extensive coverage of important and exciting new features, including dramatic improvements to Illustrator's built-in tracing utility and a major upgrade for creating patterns.

 

 

Draping for Apparel Design

 

Description*

Draping for Apparel Design combines step-by-step instructions illustrated to present the principles and methods of draping. Author Helen Joseph-Armstrong incorporates three draping techniques--manipulating dart excess, adding fullness, and contour draping--in design projects featured throughout the text. Projects begin with a draping plan and fashion drawing to identify its creative elements, and determine the draping technique required. The author describes the drape of the basic dress and its relationship to every garment in a clothing collection.

 

 

Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity

 

Description*

Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the 20th century, when the democratization of fashion began.

Examining idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past.

This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.

 

 

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Poiret, Dior and Shiaparelli is shelved as Call # GT1720 .P37 2012.

 

As a book it can be found on Bookstack 1 - Shelf 15. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

 

 

About the Author*

Ilya Parkins is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.

 

 

Review*

By Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University:

Although this slim but thickly-argued book provides basic information about three important French designers, their fashion houses and signature styles and is informed by the existing scholarship on the history of haute couture, Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity is not so much a work of fashion history as it is a new and promising combination of autobiographical analyses, feminist theory and philosophy.

 

 

Citations

Description, About the Author, and Review taken from Amazon