An insider guide to the complexities of graphic design practice and thinking. It offers advice on the fundamental topics and issues that face designers in their daily lives, looking at everything from kerning to presenting; from budgeting to dealing with rejection; from annual reports to interface design.

Looks at the fashion history and celebrates the significant designers, developments and movements of various decades. This book chronicles influences from the arrival of the flapper to modern trends to plunder the past as well as cross-blend disciplines.

Modern Furniture presents an overview of the most important developments and highlights in furniture design. Beginning with the latest trends for 2009 the book covers the past 150 years. Essays on selected themes and styles, written by experts round off this benchmark illustrated book.

Includes interviews with Fashion Makers, from famous designers, founders of fashion labels to key figures that unveil the process that creates an alluring design, collection and brand. This book is suitable for fashion students, fashion professionals and those who want to know what makes fashion function.

Intended for fashion illustrators and graphic designers, this book gives a variety of approaches, techniques and styles for illustrating fashion with hundreds of images.

Showcases the fashion sketches of sixty contemporary fashion designers, selected for their talent in the art of illustration.

A collection of 69 of some of the coolest, trippiest, and most colourful blacklight posters from the 1960s and 70s, printed to glow under black light.

As a fashion designer you must have an understanding of fabrics and what their properties are. For example, how fabrics are constructed, what they are made from and how they perform. This knowledge allows you to choose the right fabric for your designs. This title enables students with skills they need to make informed decisions on the fabrics.

Shows the work of 80 of the most creative t-shirt designers around the world. This book asks questions of the creators, including what their inspirations are, whether they wear their own designs, the printing techniques they use, how they work and more, to reveal their approach to t-shirt making.

Discusses how the female body works as a sign, a symbol, and as a designed object. This title combines design, cultural history, erotica, fashion, fetishism and observation. It questions what strange mixture of evolution, social competition, cultural modelling and (predominantly male) desire made the substance and the style of women.

The second title in a series on Fashion, this book covers the creation of accessories from the original design through to the manufacture and selling of the items.

Features some of the best in 'Annual Reports' design.

Features a profile of the SADI School of Design in South Korea, student work from Chris Hill's Creative Summit accompanied by Michael Cronan's interviews with the winners, speakers, and judges from the annual conference.

Includes Adrian Pulfer and Lynn Dangel of Dangel Advertising explaining the Crate and Barrel campaign; DeVito/Verdi's Jay Marsen and Alexei Beltrone who answer questions about their Legal Sea Foods mock-newspaper ads; and, Jim Prior of The Partners who discusses the inspiration behind an exhibition for The National Gallery of London.

La Carmina, mistress of the hugely popular Gothic Lolita website, has travelled all over Asia, Canada and the United States to document these insanely-themed restaurants, from vampires to Alice in Wonderland. With stories as quirky and singular as the restaurants she visits, and illustrated with photographs of the food, menus, interiors and waiters, La Carmina reveals this astonishing and utterly

Handbags have evolved into unique design pieces status symbols that many aspire to own. Featuring handbags from well-known fashion designers, this book showcases some of the most exciting and innovative handbag designers from across the globe, including Chanel, Dior, Prada and Louis Vuitton.

Collects together over 120 of the exquisite drawings Manolo Blahniks makes at the outset of the design process.