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Technical drawings are essential for anyone working in the fashion industry. Used to convey design ideas and garment details to pattern cutters and machinists, it is essential that they are drawn accurately to avoid misunderstanding and costly mistakes in sampling and production.

Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple and straightforward step-by-step method accompanied by some time-saving tips. This method is explained for those who wish to use Adobe Illustrator as well as for those who prefer to draw by hand.

The second part of the book presents over 600 technical drawings of garment types, styles and construction details, the basic key shapes of which are shown alongside a specially created and photographed calico toile. Accompanying each illustration will be a list of all the terms by which that garment is known. This unique presentation illustrates the relationship between the three-dimensional garment and the two-dimensional drawing, allowing readers to really understand how to render technical drawings.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes templates and basic garment shapes.

Basia Szkutnicka works as a fashion design consultant, fashion course director and lecturer in fashion design, forecasting, colour and drawing. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, she has also designed and marketed her own fashion label. She currently runs a department at the London College of Fashion, working with international students.

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Посмотреть новое издание книги Technical Drawing for Fashion: A Complete Guide, second edition

Technical drawing is an essential skill in the fashion industry. Technical drawings hold information that is essential for designers, buyers, machinists, pattern cutters, and production teams. A designer creates a technical drawing from a photo, real garment, illustration or directly from research. The drawing’s purpose is to indicate the correct proportions, seam placements and detailing of the garment. This drawing is then passed on to a pattern cutter, machinist, or factory so that an initial prototype of the garment can be made.

Technical Drawings for Fashion Design shows the basics of making a technical drawing. First, the standard format and tools are introduced. This is followed by step-by-step instructions on how to draw a number of different types of garments. The book then shows how textiles are rendered in technical drawings and how individual style can be added to the drawings.

Technical Drawing is an essential skill in the fashion industry. Technical drawings contain information that is essential for designers, buyers, machinists, pattern cutters, and production teams. Volume 2, GARMENT SOURCE BOOK, shows an extensive collection of high-quality, finished technical drawings and an extensive glossary. All of these drawings of women

Trendsetter, globetrotter, entrepreneur, influencer, esthete ... Tomas De Bruyne is without a doubt one of today's most talented floral designers. 

This is the book that colleagues, students and fans have eagerly been anticipating. Techniques for floral beauty gives us a kaleidoscopic view of the designer's internal kitchen. It shows Tomas from his most personal side and offers us a sneak peek in what motivates, intrigues and inspires him, what his passions in life are and how he makes choices and keeps reinventing himself. 

Techniques for floral beauty is a stunning portrait and colorful coffee table book chockfull of sublime beauty, but is at the same time a handbook with step by step tutorials for 50 stylish pieces. Three concise steps and clear how-to pictures offer the reader or student the guidance they need to achieve floral beauty. No less than 150 different floral techniques are discussed. Golden tips from the master himself and insider tricks give the book the allure of a personal masterclass. This is an absolute must-have for every flower lover.

700 illustrations

Here at last is the bible of T-shirt design today. 82 studios from around the world contribute their best designs to create a global view of the current thriving state of T-shirt land.
Tees is packed with illustrations of artwork and finished T-shirts, along with insights into the designers' inspirations, techniques and, where available, retail outlets.
With a vast range of style — anarchic illustration, pixel patterns, faux metal, all-over geometry, high craft, retro type, hand-drawn humour — Tees reveals the enormous potential of T-shirts to be expressive, entertaining and highly desirable all at once.
A special limited edition with a T-shirt featuring a unique collage of designs provided by artists in the book is also available.

MAKI is a small design and illustration studio based in Groningen, The Netherlands, run by Kim Smits and Matthijs Maat. MAKI work for a variety of clients, magazines and many T-shirt companies around the world.

Тekno Logical contains more than 100 fractals and other complex geometric designs generated through mathematical formulas. Interestingly, fractal structures are omnipresent in nature and the universe. For example, rocks and mountains, trees and foliage, cloud formations, and so forth, all share the characteristic that sweeping views of them have very similar features to their most minute details. And perhaps even more fascinating is the fact that the picture of an atom is akin to that of a galaxy. Tekno Logical is a unique and highly original publication by a master in digital pattern making. All images are stored on the enclosed CD-ROM, to view on your computer, and to use for web and graphic design purposes.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Architecture on the move

As economic problems make some shy away from grandiose, long-lasting buildings, a wave of new temporary buildings and architectural is sweeping over the planet. These can have uses from emergency relief to concert or performance venues. Another fascinating area that is covered here is exhibition and fair design, a veritable treasure trove of exciting designs that come and go in the space of a week or less, to show fashion, jewelry or design. Fashion shows or art displays are all part of this dynamic trend that includes some of the great names in contemporary architecture like Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, but also many architects that you have never heard of until now!

Featured architects and practices include:
Werner Aisslinger, Atelier Bow Wow, Aybar Mateos, Cecil Balmond, Shigeru Ban, Bernardes Jacobsen, BIG, Alberto Campo Baeza, Carmody Groarke, Santiago Cirugeda, Coop Himmelblau, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Ecosistema Urbano, Olafur Eliasson, Ammar Eloueini, Essentia, Established & Sons, Fantastic Norway, Mark Fisher, Massimiliano Fuksas, Laurent Grasso & Pascal Grasso, Zaha Hadid, Heatherwick, Institute of Computational Design, Toyo Ito, Adam Kalkin, Ken Min Architects, Koers Mulder, Adolf Krischanitz, Liu Jiakun, LOT-EK, MAPT, Miralles Tagliabue, MOS, Eric Owen Moss, NASA, Ivan Navarro, Jean Nouvel, OBRA Architects, OMA, OMD, John Pawson, Philippe Rahm, Raumlabor Berlin, Francesc Rifé, Michael Rojkind, Rotor, Tomas Saraceno, SO-IL, Tamassociati, Javier Terrados Cepeda, UNStudio, Helena Willemeit, Tokujin Yoshioka.

'Tempus Fugit' offers a visual feast for studios and designers exploring the concept of time. In this book - exquisitely designed by Bildi Grafiks and including an introductory essay on realtime design and sound by Robert Appleton - you will find more than 60 calendars and 50 reflections by designers, showcasing 12 exemplary cases by world design celebrities, including George Tscherny, Paula Scher, John Maeda, Kit Hinrichs, Massimo Vignelli, Ahn Sang Soo and more.

Never before has a volume of such lavishness been devoted to printed textiles. Covering the past two centuries, during which the Industrial Revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, Textile Designs presents a dazzling, comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration.

These are presented by pattern and motif, in contrast to the chronological displays in most books and museums. The dates and countries of origin are supplied wherever known.

This visual encyclopaedia groups textiles by pattern under five headings: Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles. Because of the world-wide interest, this edition includes translations of all the pattern names, as well as brief general introductions to the book in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

Textile Designs will be indispensable not only to fashion and decoration professionals, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for quiltmakers and collectors, and a delight for all lovers of the beautiful.

This book surveys the astonishing array of textiles made, worn, used and displayed throughout the Islamic world, from the glorious fabrics of the past to those still being produced today.

Lavish illustrations feature examples from around the globe, including embroidered Persian prayer cloths, Anatolian ikat coats, Ottoman knitted purses, Caucasian striped silk bags, Berber women’s shawls, Arab appliquéd tent decorations, Yemeni indigo robes, Indonesian batik sarongs, West African strip-woven cloths, and much else besides.

Region-by-region coverage offers concise details of local history, particular textile traditions, materials, dyes, special forms of decoration and information on current practice. Also explored is the fascinating fusion promoted by the merchants, missionaries, migrants and conquerors who travelled the world promulgating Islam and trading textiles widely.

The variety on display is stunning, from hemp to sumptuous velvets and silks; from quilting, felting, beading and knitting to block-printing, tie-dyeing and hand-weaving.

Pieced together much like the fine garments it portrays, this colourful volume guides the reader on an international textile tour, presenting in over 700 glorious photographs a raft of remarkable clothing, people and fabric from all over the world.

Taking the reader from Vietnam to Benin, from Central America to Eastern Europe, the book is brimful of stunning costumes, sumptuous fabrics and breathtaking detail.

Both an ethnographic textile map and a fabric-inspired travelogue, it explores and reveals many secrets about international textile crafts, including weaving, dyeing and appliqué. All designers, as well as anyone who loves fashion, will find this volume a huge source of inspiration, as will fans of off-the-beaten-track travel destinations.

Textiles explores the cultural meaning and exquisite workmanship found in the Museum of International Folk Art’s vast collection that spans centuries and includes pieces from seventy countries around the world. Handcrafted work in beautiful, vivid colors typifies the clothing, hats, robes, bedding, and shoes that represent the lives and passions of the people who created and used them.

Bobbie Sumberg is curator of Textiles and Costume at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the coauthor of Sleeping Around: The Bed from Antiquity to Now. For more than fifty years, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been documenting, collecting, preserving, and interpreting the creative works of traditional artists from cultures throughout the world.

This vibrantly illustrated book, which is newly available in paperback, is an original look at the myriad roles played by textiles in all aspects of human life, from ancient weavings to light-sensitive and other futuristic fabrics of our own era. Beverly Gordon discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways.

The many uses of textiles in our everyday lives and their sources are illustrated, along with a discussion about how, as a valuable commodity, in some communities textiles function as money. Finally, the author outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.

This book will captivate and inspire anyone who has a passion for textiles and textile arts, whether educational, creative or professional.

The A–Z of Visual Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration and visual techniques that have been used throughout design history. Showing where ideas and inspiration come from, the book provides numerous strategies to help unlock the reader’s creativity.

Using a dynamic and easy-to-understand A–Z format, the book reveals techniques that can be exploited to deliver ideas with greater impact, each entry offering a different starting point. Looking at everything from, Art to Zeitgeist, Intuition and Instinct to Happy Accidents and Hidden Messages, the book also features a section explaining how to use the idea or technique, providing readers with an infallible ‘tool kit’ of inspiration.

Including hundreds of inspirational quotes and packed with great examples of advertising campaigns, posters, book and magazine covers and illustrations, this is an indispensable primer that shows design students and professionals how to solve any creative brief.