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Ever been tired of reading and digesting a bunch of tedious numbers or words on a list, form, or bar chart? Playful Data will save you from this chronic headache by featuring some of the most brilliant, playful, illustration-based infographic projects from gifted illustrators, artists, scientists, or graphic designers worldwide.

Fashion Patternmaking Technique for Kids clothes is the result of 15 years reprints and corrections based in an everyday teaching praxis, which lead to careful studies and ongoing updates taking into account changing needs. As in the other volumes of the series, the author has written a method, simple but at the same time detailed, precise and easy to understand.

Look at me! is a selection posters produced using original ideas, advanced techniques, innovative methods, ingenious materials and unique features.

The main task for modern product designers is how to combine creativity and functionality. This book showcases different types of products such as furniture and industrial designs for the household and personal use, introducing projects from all over the world. It includes product descriptions, photographs, and designers' sketches showing the design processes.

Motion graphics -- a digital technique that combines the language of traditional graphic design with the creative visual language of film and animation -- has become a fast growing area within the practice of graphic design. With the function of storytelling, it evokes a strong emotion and creates a connection between the message and the watcher.

A design tutorial by Daniela Brambatti, Versace's chief (design) illustrator, the book is an idea of couturier Flavio Marconi who, impressed by her drawing style and the precision with which she captures the flow of fabric over the body, convinced her to put it into print. Here Brambatti reveals her fresh and innovative style, halfway between fashion sketching and illustration.

Drawing the Human Head describes in detail of how emotions and feelings are reflected in people’s faces and of how to depict them. It is a systematic structured textbook for learning the skills necessary to draw the human head, a useful manual for anyone who is eager to learn to draw or to gain further illustration skills. It was written for students attending art classes in schools, art academies and universities and its texts and images have been designed to be understood by both younger and older adults. The book can also be used as a self-study tool.

High fashion unquestionably goes hand-in-hand with sartorial and stylistic perfection. A driving force behind the entire fashion and garment industry, it represents the search for new solutions concerning fabrics, style, or patterns. In this context, the patternmaker is an essential figure, bringing the stylist's ideas into reality. In our richly illustrated new volume of the Fashion Patternmaking series, the prolific author Antonio Donnanno, an offspring of a tailor family, patternmaking teacher, and director of a fashion school network, describes in detail the methods and techniques used in high-fashion patternmaking in an understandable and step-by-step way.

A good screen layout addresses the relationship between fonts, colours, form and graphics for visual effects, and the balance between the flow of information and users' experience. The over one-hundred projects included explore how to produce functional and elegant websites and mobile applications, from the point of view of graphic designers.

An exploratory, artistic activity guide based around the infinite possibilities and techniques of collage and mixed media. Through ten different works produced using a wide variety of procedures, the book analyzes the process of creation step by step and offers a list of necessary tools, tips, ideas, and solutions for materials, supports, and finishes. This is a book for art enthusiasts and design professionals who love to experiment with new paths. A special section is devoted to reproduction techniques of finished works by creating small, domestic photographic sets with easy-to-make special lighting effects. Victor Escandell is a well-known book, journal, and publicity illustrator.

This volume explores and provides clear and detailed and in detail illustrated explanations of all kinds of outerwear patterns for women and men.Antonio Donnanno is a patternmaking techniques teacher, fashion school director, and author of dozens of fashion books.Famous consultant and author Elisabetta Drudi has illustrated the book.

Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. It’s fascinating development throughout different civilizations and periods of history is currently generating an impressive amount of interest, not only in the fashion world but also within the academic community and, as a result, among the general public as well. Spanning from the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, this book analyses the importance and meaning of this captivating area of human behavior with an in-depth approach to its subject that is illuminated by a rich, iconographic display of illustrations and photographs. The lavish visuals, which many other titles in this field lack, truly bring the topic to life. With this book, the reader will discover the beauty and mystery of the history of fashion, the roles it has played in society and the creativity and power of invention it has often brought out in man.

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language? How has its production, which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space, invaded galleries, bringing with it real popularity for some artists? These are some of the questions that Magda Danysz, a gallery owner and recognized expert on street art, answers with an easily comprehensible and entertaining style in this unique, richly illustrated anthology, interspersed with the portraits of the big international names.

After the successful New Rings and New Earrings, New Necklaces is the third book curated by jeweler and author Nicolas Estrada, from classic forms and materials to the most daring, experimental and surprising ideas, each of the 500 necklaces included in this book has something that makes it unique and relates strongly to today's social, cultural and artistic reality. With prefaces by German jeweler Julia Wild and Leo Caballero, owner of the Barcelona gallery Klimt 02, specialized in contemporary jewelers

This second volume of "Fashion Patternmaking Techniques" examines the various procedures for transforming bodices, through dart manipulation as well as studying techniques for creating volumes, draping, and fitted patterns. The book includes techniques for creating patterns for knit fabrics; basic dress blocks and how to adapt these to different fabric patterns and types of garment (for example, maternity dresses); sleeves; basic blocks for men's vests and jackets; size grading for tops and dresses and the fundamentals of pattern layout. This manual prepares the reader to apply these concepts-along with their own intuition and creativity-to constructing patterns.

"Scenographics" explores the possibilities of creating a set that utilizes creative design in a multi-dimensional perspective which intends to surround the spectator in a total experience. Going behind the scenes of the design process, it explores the creative and strategic elements of set design such as handmade designing and 3D graphics computing.