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This distinctive volume reveals a unique antique kimono collection through various delicate Japanese colors and their use in kimono.

The Japanese sensibility is immediately apparent in the classification of the nine traditional color categories of red, green, pink, blue, brown, purple, yellow, black/white, and gold/silver. Each spread presents a single color showing a page-wide photo of a kimono accompanied by a description of the color and its meaning in the context of Japanese culture. The author explains, "We organized the kimono and obi (sash) according to what I like to call ‘Japanese Kokoro no Iro’ — colors of the Japanese heart.

Each category presents what individual colors express or signify. For example, we use white, black and gold as an expression of cheer. Red indicates the sun, blood, and fire. White, black, and silver express sadness." With the knowledge of both Western and traditional Japanese fashion cultures, Yumioka presents and describes his collection in an easily accessible style.

Shortlisted for the American Textile Society R.L. Shep Award

The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and timeless, but this book counters that conception, presenting the kimono as highly dynamic and fashionable dress. The cultural and sartorial significance of the kimono is explored in historical and contemporary contexts, both in Japan and the West, where its impact on clothing styles has been felt since the seventeenth century. Beautifully illustrated, the book features over 250 kimono and kimono-inspired garments from the V&A and collections around the world, revealing its sartorial influence on pop stars from David Bowie to Björk and examining the ways in which fashion designers such as Issey Miyake, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen have reworked its legacy.

About the Author:

Anna Jackson is the Keeper of the Asian Department at the V&A.

Головний редактор Vogue Knitting Нора Гоган показує вам, як створювати прямокутники, квадрати та прості форми, а потім складати, скручувати та складати їх, щоб створювати унікальний модний одяг та аксесуари.

Прості форми ідеально підходять для в’язальниць-початківців, але продумані складки та застібки Knit, Fold, Pleat, Repeat також заінтригують досвідчених. Ці прийоми легко освоїти, а можливості дизайну — і нові комбінації, які з’являються, коли ви починаєте — майже безмежні.

Кожен дизайн починається з простого прямокутника, квадрата або трикутника, а потім розвивається далі: для складання, драпірування або скручування форми в одязі чи аксесуарі, а також для введення складок, виточок і розрізів. Кожен візерунок має чудовий стиль високої моди, а проекти так захоплюють в’язання — ви можете виявити, що шиєте той самий одяг у нових кольорах і пряжі, щоб мати по одному на кожен сезон. Всього в книзі 36 візерунків, кожен з яких має варіації.

Про автора:

Нора Гоган – один із найкращих авторів, інструкторів і дизайнерів у галузі в’язання, а також є головним редактором Vogue Knitting. Вона розробляє трикотажні вироби для деяких найпрестижніших компаній із виробництва пряжі та публікацій у всьому світі. Вона живе в Хенкоку, Нью-Гемпшир.

Avoid getting yourself in a tangle with the ultimate guide to tying and using knots!

Whichever knotty scenario you find yourself in, from in your own garden, to up in the mountains or across seas, this reference book will take you from novice to expert rope tier.

Covering more than 100 knots for climbing, sailing, horse-riding, survival, camping, and fishing as well as for gardening, DIY, medical, and even decorative purposes. The photographs of every step use strands of rope in different colours - so you can clearly see how to tie each knot.

Inside this visual guide, you'll find:

- Accessible text and tables that explain the features and benefits of each knot
- Easy to follow step-by-step instructions and pictures for over 100 knots
- Sequence spreads displaying the top five knots you need for a range of purposes, from sailing and fishing to gardening and gift-wrapping
- Fun facts about some of the oldest knots and their history
- Essential information on choosing and using different types of rope and how to maintain them

You'll learn all about the fascinating stories behind how many of these knots were first tied as well as their original functions. Each knot has simple-to-follow instructions on the features and benefits and what they can be used for. Includes knots such as figure-of-eights, reef knots, highwayman's hitches, and monkey's fists. Find out about techniques like sheer lashing and the constrictor knot.

The book begins by teaching you all about rope materials and construction and how to maintain them. At the end of the book the glossary and index so you can easily find just the knot you're in need of. There are more than 1,000 photographs, illustrations, and artworks. Expert author Des Pawson is a founding member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers.

One-Stop Practical Guide to Tying and Using Knots

An essential for your knot tying kit, Knots Step by Step is arranged by chapters covering Stopper Knots, Binding Knots, Bends, Hitches, Loops, Plaits & Sennits, and Splices & Whippings. It also includes detailed instructions for over 100 knots and fantastic beginner guides to help boy scouts, nippers and first-time climbers become experienced campers, sailors, and mountaineers.

More from DK Books:

Don't miss out on more fascinating visual reference books! Look out for The Complete Sailing Manual, RHS How to Garden, and The Survival Handbook from DK Books to put your new-found knot skills to the test.

Illustrator Djamila Knopf leads us through her world, where anime-influenced characters, exquisite settings, and the process of creating fantasies enchant her fans worldwide. Having settled on her own authentic, creative style, featuring line art and a palette of delicate, yet impactful, colors, Djamila has decided to write a book that charts her journey. Japanese art was a key influence from an early age, and the book illustrates how Djamila has fused her favorite aspects of anime with her own, the result being a unique style that has captured the attention of both art fans and the industry. Her approach to storytelling and ideation are covered in depth; although artists have different approaches, Djamila shares her own experiences and insights to help readers fine-tune their own early stages of creation. As a fantasy artist, symbolism and fantastical scenes have always been part of Djamila’s world, and here she shares how she works with these, as well as finding very personal connections to even the most general of concepts. The final leg of the journey is visiting Djamila’s own studio, where she discusses being an independent artist, her daily routine and workspace, and the practical aspect of time management and motivation.

About the Author:

Djamila Knopf was working as an illustrator for gaming and books publishing until 2017, when she had an epiphany and dedicated herself to being an independent artist doing her own work. Mainly working digitally, Djamila was obsessed with 90s anime shows and anything else that had a fantastical twist to it, and her work today is an accumulation of these early influences. She is also an instructor for the online art school Schoolism. Djamila lives and works in Leipzig, Germany, surrounded by beautiful historical buildings and greenery. When she's not drawing or painting, Djamila enjoys karaoke, bouldering, and traveling.

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The story of luxury fashion house Lancel, from its founders and innovative designs to its contemporary collections and famous collaborations.
 
Lancel, the iconic French fashion house renowned for establishing the handbag as a womenswear essential and inventing the covetable Bucket bag, has set trends throughout its history, collaborating with celebrities from Josephine Baker to Brigitte Bardot and great designers from Patrick Demarchelier to Viviane Sassen. Marking its 140th anniversary, this volume — featuring original art from Martin Parr, Marjane Satrapi, and Jean-Philippe Delhomme — uncovers the rich history of Lancel and reveals the secrets behind the brand’s continued success.

Founded in 1876 and originally specializing in smoking accessories, Lancel soon expanded its product line and its name became synonymous with incomparable savoir faire and sophistication — from toiletry cases to Bambino (the smallest radio set in the world), or from travel luggage to the unique and inventive Umbrella bag. Combining luxury with functionality, its aim has always been to simplify life while making it more beautiful, an ideal that the house continues to perpetuate today.

About the Author:

Laurence Benaïm is a fashion journalist, author, and historian who has published biographies of Yves Saint Laurent and Marie-Laure de Noailles.

A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker

Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Greenfield has travelled the world - from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China - bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences. Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.

Lauren Greenfield’s postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously photographic journey, memoir, and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late-stage capitalism, narcissism and greed.

"Expertly crafted visually... Generation Wealth enthralls from the start." — Hollywood News

"An insightful and scathing look at society's obsession with excess." — Screen International

About the authors:

Lauren Greenfield is an Emmy-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. A preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, and consumerism, her documentary The Queen of Versailles won the Best Documentary Director Award at Sundance in 2012. Her photographs have been widely published, exhibited - and collected - and her Super Bowl commercial, Like a Girl, went viral and swept the advertising awards of 2015.

Juliet Schor is an author, economist, cultural critic, and professor of sociology at Boston College. Her research focuses on the economics of work, spending, the environment, and consumer culture.

Trudy Wilner Stack was Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona for over a decade, after holding positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. She has curated dozens of exhibitions of contemporary and historical photography around the world, and is a frequent contributing author and lecturer.

Класичний і важливий текст для дизайнерів з 2009 року, Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids став кращим із новим дослідженням принципів дизайну, оновленим текстом, а також новими фотографіями та міжнародною графікою.

Сітки є основою для всіх дизайнерських проектів, і навчитися працювати з ними є основним для всіх графічних дизайнерів. Від роботи з форматами з кількома стовпцями до використання тексту, кольору, зображень тощо, Layout Essentials не лише демонструє на реальних прикладах, як ефективно використовувати сітки, але також показує, як порушувати правила, щоб ефективно їх використовувати.

Ця переглянута й оновлена ​​версія Layout Essentials — це єдиний довідник і ресурс для всіх проектів дизайну макетів.

Автор:

Бет Тондро є засновницею та керівником BTD, невеликої дизайнерської фірми, яка співпрацює з видавцями, створюючи дизайн книг і обкладинок, а також із малими підприємствами, щоб розвивати їх ідентичність. Зараз вона викладає на факультеті комунікаційного дизайну Нью-Йоркського технологічного коледжу в Нью-Йорку. Тондро брав участь у якості наставника в програмі наставництва AIGA/NYC і входив до ради директорів AIGA/NYC.

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Створіть ідеальні, красиві шкіряні сумки та аксесуари за допомогою цих 14 модних проектів!

Стильні та функціональні шкіряні сумки незамінні для метушні повсякденного життя. Тепер цей вичерпний посібник пропонує нове введення у створення сумки на замовлення, про яку ви завжди мріяли, а також інших аксесуарів. Кася Ерхардт, яка вивчала дизайн сумок в Технологічному інституті моди, представляє 14 приголомшливих, зручних для початківців проектів, від елегантного чохла для телефону до вишуканої сумки-відра. Вона пояснює всі основи: як працювати з різними типами шкіри; техніки різання шкіри та пришивання блискавок, ремінців тощо; а також поради щодо кастомізації та догляду за вашими новими сумками. Крім того, книга містить понад 280 покрокових фотографій, гарно стилізовані зображення кожного проекту та викрійки, що зберігаються в кишеньковому конверті.

Про автора:

Кася Ерхардт працює та живе в Берліні, Німеччина, зі своїм хлопцем, дочкою та котом. Вона розробляє викрійки та пише навчальні посібники для Академії шиття своїми руками. Після вивчення архітектури в Колумбійському університеті Кася відвідувала заняття в Технологічному інституті моди, де навчилася виготовляти сумки, дрібні шкіряні вироби, взуття, ремені та інші аксесуари. У 2009 році вона повернулася до рідної Німеччини, щоб створювати шкіряні сумки на замовлення для свого бренду KSIA. З KSIA вона відроджує сімейну традицію: один із прадідів Касії колись виготовляв шкіряні сумки та валізи.

_Method by specialist in the field
_Development of new idea of handwriting
_To find own way and own set of rules after understanding how it works
_Eight chapters with practical exercises to be done in the book

Although handwriting is one of mankind’s greatest cultural achievements, written communication today consists mostly of typing into computers and mobile devices. Monica Dengo addresses herself to all those who don’t even use pen and paper for their shopping list, but would like to try using them (again).

This book discovers and promotes the creative potential of handwriting – and allows to put it into practice right away on the pages of the book. Well-founded and very colorful, inspiring and yet structured: in the end, there is the joy of expressing oneself with a personal touch and the understanding that writing is much more than just the graphic transcription of language extending all the way to the origin of the need for expression.

Leonardo da Vinci and Anatomy: all the power and relevance of this great Renaissance mind.

This exhibition catalogue on Leonardo da Vinci the anatomist highlights the mystery of a thought that was both anchored in its time and, combined with a totally new practice (dissection), leading to a new understanding of the nature of life. Da Vinci was not content with a passive description of the human body; he sought to penetrate the secrets of its functioning by first studying the mechanics of humans (bones, muscles, tendons), then the logic of the senses, and finally all the bodily functions (digestion, respiration, blood circulation, reproduction), which made him to use qualitative reasoning.

Contrary to popular belief, Leonardo did not carry out his dissections in secret, but in complete agreement with the political and religious authorities, until his materialistic ideas came into conflict with the pontifical authorities, particularly with regard to embryology.

The originality of the book is to show how Leonardo’s work as an anatomist and his work as a painter are inseparable. The book thus links a work such as the Last Supper in Milan with the knowledge gathered in the medical field.

The book brings together originals or copies of Leonardo’s sheets with objects (anatomical waxes, facsimiles of dissecting instruments), books studied by the artist, interviews with specialists and animated 3D reconstructions.

About the Authors:

Dominique Le Nen is professor at the University of Nantes and orthopedic surgeon.

Pascal Brioist is professor at the University of Tours, historian specialized in Leonardo da Vinci, in la Renaissance and sciences and techniques of the modern era.

Рух мінімалізму за останні роки став опорою популярної культури, значною мірою завдяки зростаючому тиску сучасного життя та, як наслідок, необхідності позбутися безладу. У графічному дизайні його принципи часто застосовуються шляхом скорочення використовуваної палітри кольорів, чи то для візуальної ідентифікації, публікацій чи виставок. Серед моря хаосу в насичених просторах простота може стати справді вражаючою заявою.

У зв’язку з 20-річчям Victionary перевидання ‘Less is More’ у 2022 році містить додаткові проекти та спеціальну обкладинку, яка нагадує оригінальний вигляд свого попередника-бестселера. Він містить креативні рішення та візуальні експерименти з усього світу, які грають із продуманими комбінаціями кольорів, застосуванням матеріалів, ефектами друку та графічними деталями, щоб довести, що найкращі проекти часто говорять більше за менші кошти.

Lettering is the art of “drawing” letters or words, highlighting their imperfections and free style

This technique, which has been in use for several decades, is currently enjoying wide popularity thanks to its many talented exponents worldwide, including Tobias Hall, Craig Black, Martina Flor, Ivan Castro, Betrayer Family, Tobias Saul, Sergio Jiménez and others. We can find Lettering decorating the interiors of bars and restaurants, the windows displays of top stores, advertising campaigns etc.   

The book is divided into two parts; in the first half each artist has selected examples of their work and discussed their influences and early career, while in the second half each of them provides a new piece of work, talking us through the creative and production process, step by step, from the initial idea and sketch, explaining how the dimensions were worked out and the letters combined to ultimately form a harmonious message.    

This is a complete book for all lovers of the art, and those who want to take a glance at the wonderful world of Lettering.

The definitive typographic exploration of the letter forms and typography of one of Europe’s leading design studios

Letters from M/M (Paris) is a comprehensive study of the typefaces produced by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak since they founded their influential art and design practice, M/M (Paris).

For the first time, ninety of the designers’ typefaces are catalogued chronologically in a three-part volume, comprising the history of their development; exclusive type specimens; and detailed illustrations of projects in which they appear.

With a foreword by Björk – whose collaboration with M/M spans over two decades – this encyclopaedic volume traces the distinctive and integral nature of type, lettering and signs in the work of M/M, from one-off artistic commissions to fashion branding and their long-lasting collaborations with musicians and theatres.

This complete typographic collection is the perfect companion to the two-volume monograph M to M of M/M (Paris), and will appeal not only to graphic designers, historians and students, but to anyone interested in art and visual culture.

About the Author:

Paul McNeil is a graphic designer, writer and educator, and was formerly Course Director of MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication. In 2009 he co-founded MuirMcNeil with Hamish Muir, a design practice whose activities are focused on exploring systematic methods in design for visual communication. Seven years in the making, The Visual History of Type, McNeil's definitive survey of type and typography from 1450-2015, was published in 2017.

Roy Lichtenstein’s masterful Pop Art posters from 1962 to 1997 are showcased in this collection of 68 full-color reproductions.

Lichtenstein’s art is most recognizable for its trademark benday dots and two-dimensional planes, cartoonlike qualities that placed him at the forefront of the American Pop Art scene. With its emphasis on consumer culture, Lichtenstein’s style lent itself easily to the poster genre. This volume opens with his earliest poster, designed for his first exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1962, and closes with his last, which he completed the year of his death. An additional section features reproductions from the Claus von Olden collection and includes posters and flyers that were produced all over the world using Lichtenstein’s iconic motifs. The works reflect Lichtenstein’s prolific imagination and ability to adapt his vision to the promotion of music and film festivals, theatrical performances, museums, restaurants, and public service messages as well as his own exhibitions. An essay discusses Lichtenstein’s development as an artist who blurred the boundaries between lowbrow and highbrow art.