Design

Books About Design

Dress Pattern Design by Natalie Bray Publisher: Granada Publishing Date: 1982 Description: This book teaches you how to make patterns for clothes. There are over 100 diagrams and 40 plates. There are also instructions to show you how to make each pattern.

Fashion Illustration by fashion designersby Laird Borrelli Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London Date: 2008 Description: This book has 280 sketches from famous international designers such as Betsy Johnson and Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci. The book also introduces each designer. Designing Apparel Through The Flat Pattern Revised Fifth Edition by Ernestine Kopp, Vittorina Rolfo, Beatrice Zelin and Lee Gross Publisher: Fairchild Publications, Inc Date: 1982 Description: This book prepares students for working and creating flat patterns. There are materials listed to help students learn and get the pattern out.

Directions in Art Photographyby Debbie Humphry Publisher: Harcourt Education Ltd Date: 2004 Description: This book talks about what influences artists to take the pictures that they do. It also makes you think about how artists achieve the message in the picture that they were trying to get across and also what inspired them to take the picture. It shows pictures from a long time ago to now.

Directions in Art Textilesby Paul Mason Publisher: Harcourt Education ltd Date: 2004 Description: This book is about what directions artists are taking when making textiles for example fish-skin baskets and hairstyles made of felt. It also explains what textiles are.

Directions in Art Paintingby Richard Stemp Publisher: Harcourt Education ltd Date: 2004 Description: This book talks about different types of painting and different artists. It shows different styles of painting as well like dripping paint.

Directions in Art Printmakingby Louisa Sherman and Dianne Hofmeyr Publisher: Harcourt Education ltd Date: 2004 Description: This book is about different printmakers. It also talks about what direction they are going in when it comes to different designs in printmaking.

Hands-on Fashion by Wendy Baker Publisher: Thomson Learning Date: 1991 Description: This book talks about how you can start your own clothing designs and different techniques you can use. You can learn to make fashion sketches and even choose fabrics.

Art Craft Design by Clodagh Holahan and Maureen Roche Publisher: Gill and Macmillan Date: 1993 Description: This books talks about art and different artists, crafts and how to make different designs. It covers a wide area of different topics in art such as color, patterns and shapes and drawing. **__Websites About Design 1.__** Library: Connexions Link: [|Website on Software Design] Description: This website talks about how to create a design with online softwares and the steps you have to follow to create a design.

2. Library: The British Library Link: [|Website on Design] Description: This website is designs which are already registered and different materials you can use when designing something such as paper and leather. 3. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|About Design] Description: This website is about design and how to create a design. It tells you what you have to think about, such as the customer and how your product will be used.

4. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|Set Design] Description: This website talks about how set designers go about designing their sets, what they have to think about and how their working conditions are.

5. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|"Green" Designs] Description: This website talks about how fashion designers are thinking about making their clothing the "green" way, meaning making clothing which is good for the environment. For example, it says how Abi Ferrin made clothes from recylced materials.

6. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|Commercial and Industrial Designers] Description: This website talks about what commercial and industrial designers have to do to make new inventions. It talks about the steps involved in creating a new design.

7. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|Design for the other 90%] Description: This website is about designers creating products for people who really need them. When the designer is asked to make something for a certain user, they must think about what to design.

8. Library: Web Path Express Link: [|Fashion Designers] Description: This website talks about what fashion designers do, how they are picked and even what their work environment is like. 9. Library: Web Path Express Link: Description: This website talks about what designers do in their day to day life. It talks about different designers as well.

10. Library: Intute Link: [|Web Design] Description: This website is about how to design your own website and what to put to make it unique and your own. It also shows you how to create free flash websites which you can upload in seconds.