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Filled with examples from a broad spectrum of sources – advertising, street signs, invitations, type-specimen books, personal letters – this collection will be a delight for designers and an invaluable sourcebook of long-overlooked lettering.

From wedding announcements to IOUs, there are hundreds – perhaps thousands – of scripts, some ‘classic’, others eccentric. Whether elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish or ostentatious, these typefaces are stylized to suggest, imply or symbolize certain traits linked to handwriting.

The 'Golden Age' of scripts ran from the 19th to the mid-20th century; this book presents an unparalleled compilation of popular, rare and forgotten scripts from that era, from many countries.

Contents
Introduction: Elegance & Eccentricity
1 French/L’écriture
2 British/Scripts
3 German/Der Schrift
4 Italian/Il Corviso
5 American/Scripts

Immerse yourself in the concept art belonging to one of the most beloved role-playing games of 2023. Known for his colourful and complex, retro-anime inspired illustrations, it’s no mystery as to why Bryce and Sabotage Studio collaborated to make this turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. Sea of Stars: The Concept Art of Bryce Kho showcases all the incredible characters that Bryce has lovingly brought to life through years of discussion with Creative Director Thierry Boulanger, and is a book to enjoy for gamers and art-lovers alike.

Sea of Stars: The Concept Art of Bryce Kho is the debut art book for the extremely successful fantasy role-playing game, created by Sabotage Studio and illustrated by renowned concept artist, Bryce Kho.

Sea of Stars was released on all platforms in August 2023. It has since been played by over 5 millions players worldwide and won ‘Best Independent Game’ at The Game Awards 2023. It’s also a prequel to Sabotage’s first game, The Messenger, which won the prestigious award for ‘Best Debut Indie Game’ at The Game Awards in 2018 and sold 50,000 copies in its first week of release. Bryce Kho has been on the Sabotage Studio team as lead concept artist since 2020. Known for his colourful and complex, retro-anime inspired illustrations, it’s no mystery as to why Bryce and Sabotage Studio collaborated to make this turn-based RPG inspired by the classics.

Sea of Stars: The Concept Art of Bryce Kho showcases all the incredible characters that Bryce has lovingly brought to life through years of discussion with Creative Director Thierry Boulanger, and is a book to enjoy for gamers and art-lovers alike. 

About the Authors:

Bryce Kho, a concept illustrator and freelance mixed-media artist based in Pasadena, California, is known for his vibrant and intricate anime-inspired illustrations that stir nostalgia. His portfolio spans a range of roles including illustrator and concept artist, contributing to projects such as Homestead Arcana and Aegis Defenders’. After a first collaboration with Sabotage doing illustrations for The Messenger, Bryce joined the team to handle all things concept art and character design on ‘Sea of Stars,’ a retro-inspired RPG that has captivated over 5 million players worldwide. Additionally, Bryce commands an impressive social media presence with nearly 500,000 followers across his accounts.

Sabotage Studio is a Canadian development team founded in 2016 and located in Quebec City. Committed to creating awe-inspiring original universes recalling the greatest moments in classic gaming, Sabotage Studio rethinks the conventions of well-established genres to unlock new potential, creating distinct, modernized titles that reach beyond traditional expectations of what a genre can offer. Creator of the critically lauded turn-based RPG Sea of Stars, voted Best Indie Game at the 2023 The Game Awards, and acclaimed sidescrolling action platformer The Messenger, winner of Best Debut Indie Game at the 2018 The Game Awards, Sabotage Studio has established itself as one of the gaming industry's most promising developers. Sabotage Studio is currently working on Sea of Stars' upcoming DLC, Throes of the Watchmaker, along with their unannounced next title.

In the world of typography, it is not uncommon to see combinations of serif and sans serif typefaces in the same design. However, it takes skill to combine them in order to avoid tension and clashes, and ensure maximum readability of the text in the design.

From font weights to classifications, each font has its own distinct personality, and should be carefully paired to convey the right tone and mood of the design. Featuring a selection of type specimens and their design applications, Serif In Use collates the best combinations of the two typeface categories and serves as a reference point for inspiration-seeking designers and typographers.

This innovative and breathtakingly detailed book from the V&A's fashion collections presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Book One in this exciting new series includes waistcoats and bodices, a mantle, gloves and a hat. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them. There are scale patterns of each garment and scale diagrams for making linen and metal thread laces, silk braids and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs of the objects, close-up construction details and the groundbreaking use of x-ray photography reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside. This new series will be essential reading for art historians, stage designers, museum curators, teachers of fashion and costume.

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Посмотреть книгу Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two

Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag and a knife case. It also features a description of the stay-making process. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them. There are scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and metal thread laces and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs of the objects, close-up construction details and X-ray photography reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.

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Посмотреть книгу Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book One

The multidimensional nature and simplicity of geometric shapes have fascinated designers since design's early days

The creative possibilities that they offer are unlimited, and we interpret them constantly. Whereas the rectangle represents symmetry and order, the square, with its equal faces and angles, denotes calm and neutrality, and the circle evokes perfection and infinity.

Shapes: Geometric Forms in Graphic Design reveals how the most innovative studios and agencies continue to reinvent geometric shapes to create new design philosophies.

This is an essential guide for those who wish to incorporate new insights into their creative repertoire.

In this exciting volume, Salvatore Ferragamo traces his life’s adventures from his origins as a village shoemaker to founding what would become a major global fashion brand.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all write our autobiography, and if I dwell on the details of my career it is only because it makes it easier to explain my calling: the work that became my life’s fundamental vocation.

Life has taught me that Nature gives us perfect feet. If they get damaged, it is because our shoes are defective. However, it is not necessary to undergo such torture, not even in the name of vanity. We can all walk happily wearing comfortable, refined, splendid shoes.
This is my whole life’s work: learning to make perfect shoes, refusing to put my name on those that aren’t.” — Salvatore Ferragamo

This is a new, completely updated edition of the autobiography of a man who made Italian fashion great throughout the world. Among the many vicissitudes of his adventurous life, the book features a magnificent series of encounters with and anecdotes about the most extraordinary Hollywood stars, such as Rudolph Valentino, Mary and Lottie Pickford, Pola Negri, Joan Crawford, and Greta Garbo. His loyal customers also included Marilyn Monroe, Douglas Fairbanks, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Audrey Hepburn, and Paulette Goddard.

About the Author:

Salvatore Ferragamo was born 1898 in Bonito, a poor village in the south of Italy. After learning shoemaking in Naples, he opened a small shop in his hometown, then in 1915 immigrated to America, where he designed footwear for the film stars of the time. He returned to Italy in 1927 and founded the world-renowned Ferragamo company.

Since signage systems are created to provide orientation, they must be universally legible and understood by people of all ages and culture. Signs must show the way, and also present the proper information at the proper location. By making effective use of graphics, colors and shapes, a signage system helps to create an identity for spaces.

Signage Designs showcases a great variety of current examples from across the world, indoor and outdoor, ranging from individual buildings like museums, hospitals and stadiums, to larger contexts like subway systems, town districts or entire cities. This title is an essential reference for designers involved in communications, architects, interior designers and indeed for creative persons in all sectors.

The first comprehensive book on the work of Simone Rocha, beloved Irish designer.

Simone Rocha emerged from the prestigious Central Saint Martins M.A. and upon the presentation of her first collection in 2010, and quickly garnered an instant following amongst fashion insiders and taste-makers, Adrian Joffe of Dover Street Market was an early fan. Borne from the deep and lush nature of her native home in Ireland, her designs are highly feminine, captivating, and infinitely dreamy. Her vision is one that seems to have no bounds — her highly singular designs have since reached a new set of followers that have since grown to include stylishly rebellious A-Listers like Rhianna, FKA Twigs, Billie Eilish, and Chloë Sevigny along with a devoted set of fashion darlings who don Rocha’s platform brogues, voluminous, almost gothic, dresses, and pearl shaped handbags in cities across the globe. Collaborations with brands like Moncler, H&M, and J Brand have also extended the visibility of her work on a serious level.

This book is a long, pensive gaze into Rocha's subversive world, one heavily inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois and, undeniably, Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons. A natural bookmaker (she’s published an impressive number of incredibly collectible zines), it is insightfully edited, designed, and crafted, gathering catwalk images, shadowy editorials, and backstage imagery in a manner that stays true to the very nature of the dark and twisting world she’s created. An absolute essential for any fashion-lover’s bookshelf, this monograph is highly anticipated and set to follow in the footsteps of successful authors Rizzoli has published in the past including Ann Demuelemeester, Rick Owens, Jun Takahashi, and Maison Martin Margiela.

About the Author:

Simone Rocha is an Irish fashion designer. She trained at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and at Central Saint Martins, London. In January 2024, Rocha debuted her first haute couture collection with Jean Paul Gaultier during Paris Couture Week.

Consecrating Cartier’s new collection of high jewelry and precious objects, this volume honors the iconic brand and its signature artistry.

Cartier continues to follow in the footsteps paved by its founding brothers, and to create breathtaking and unique pieces.

About the Author:

Francois Chaille is passionate about art history, fashion, jewelry, and watchmaking. He has collaborated with Flammarion to publish over fifteen books on these subjects.

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Пролистать книгу Sixième Sens par Cartier: High Jewelry and Precious Objects

This vibrant publication brings to life four centuries of extraordinary garments and accessories inspired by the natural world

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion explores clothing’s complex relationship with the body through the senses, offering new ways for understanding and experiencing a garment’s inherent artistry. Engaging texts by scholars, scientists, and conservators reveal the history behind over 200 works of fashion while also addressing their fragility and ephemerality.

Exceptional new photography by Nick Knight of creations by international couturiers and design houses ― including Cristòbal Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Collina Strada, Christian Dior, Gucci, Charles James, LOEWE, Madame Grès, Thebe Magugu, Maison Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Paul Poiret, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Bea Szenfeld, Philip Treacy, Iris van Herpen, Louis Vuitton, and Charles Frederick Worth ― further deepens our appreciation for each object’s sensorial integrity.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University Press

About the Author:

Andrew Bolton, OBE, has curated some of The Museum's most visited exhibitions, including Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), China: Through the Looking Glass (2015), Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), and Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019). He has written more than twenty books, lectures widely, and contributes to many publications. Prior to joining The Met in 2002, he worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for nine years. Born in Great Britain, Andrew earned a BA and an MA in non-Western art from the University of East Anglia. He has received several awards, including the 2015 Vilcek Prize in Fashion, the 2016 Fashion Group International Oracle Award, the 2022 CFDA Founder’s Award, and the 2023 Fashion Group International Superstar Award.

The recent years have witnessed the birth of many smart products that have dramatically changed our life. It's believed that smart products will be even closer to our life with the development of science and technology. Smart Product Design unveils the world behind intelligent products by featuring interviews with some of the most talented designers and company leaders, and showcasing a selection of smart products from them.

The book is more than a source of inspiration for product designers, but also shares the insights from industry veterans with readers passionate for smart products.

The stories behind the brands, designers, and sneakerheads that transformed athletic footwear into a cultural phenomenon unfold in this epic volume.

From its early twentieth-century origins as a sporting shoe; to the thrill of seeing Michael Jordan’s red, white, and black high-tops on the court; to the swagger and style of hip-hop footwear, the sneaker has become a status marker and a coveted cult collectible. This history of the sneaker spans Nike’s famous swish logo and global domination, the saga of the dueling brothers who respectively founded Adidas and Puma, and the enduring popularity of Off-White kicks and Vans.

With a glossary of key terms and an overview of the technological and stylistic revolutions of the sneaker, this is an essential book for understanding the streetwear universe, vocabulary, and codes; its innovators and their coveted models; as well as the burgeoning global resale economy. Through profiles of the brands; portraits of Virgil Abloh, Chitose Abe, and Travis Scott; and interviews with Kanye West, collector Max Limol, and pop culture guru Sarah Andelman of the legendary Parisian boutique Colette, this book offers deep perspective on the creativity of the industry. Insight into the future of sneakers and how the leading brands are committed to sustainability, customization, and gender equity reveal how the sneaker business continues to reinvent itself at the forefront of culture.

About the Author:

Kikikickz is France’s leading online sneaker reseller, specializing in rare and limited-edition models.

Fashion and lifestyle journalist Alexandre Pauwels is the copywriter at Kikikickz.

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Пролистать книгу Sneaker Obsession на сайте издательства.

The ultimate guide to over 300 of the very latest, ultra-collectible sneaker designs, presented through specially commissioned photography

This sequel to the classic Sneakers: The Complete Collectors’ Guide is a global survey and reference guide to the very best and most collectible limited-edition sneaker designs released over the last decade

Sneakers: The Complete Collectors' Guide was a phenomenal success and a key influence in the transformation of sneaker collecting from an underground subculture into a mainstream, multi-billion dollar business. Following publication of that book, sneaker brands began reissuing classic designs and creating shoes that would spur the second wave of collecting: limited editions and collaborations between the brands, invited artists, designers, musicians and cultural icons.

This sequel showcases the very best of this new sneaker culture, featuring more than 300 designs arranged by brand. Each sneaker is accompanied by informative text and a ‘data’ box listing Edition, Pack, Year Released, Original Purpose, Technology and Extras.

Essential for both the hardcore sneaker freak and the first time collector, this book will also attract and seduce fashion and design aficionados.

About the Author:

The creative consultancy U-Dox are creators of the leading online sneaker resource crookedtongues.com.

Contents List:

Introduction • Adidas • Asics • Converse • New Balance • Nike • Air Jordan • Puma • Reebok • Vans • And Not Forgetting

50 pages x 50 stickers per page = 2,500 bright, beautiful stickers for any occasion!

There's no such thing as too many stickers, and this GIANT collection ticks alllllll the boxes. Add them to your stash, use them in your planner, decorate snail mail, or share with your besties!