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Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide: Natural and Man-made Fibres

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion d...

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Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book

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Modelmaking – A Basic Guide

Model Making

Model Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design; or anyone who has the need or desire to make the large small.

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Dynamic Light and Shade

Drawing

This book, illustrated with drawings in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and brush and ink, shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. Hogarth demonstrates how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space.

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Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained, Volume 1: Principles and Static Forces

Mechanical Engineering

This series of three volumes, 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained' aims to explain in a reader-friendly way, the essential principles of basic mechanics as used in engineering.

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Model-making: Materials and Methods

Model Making

"Model-making: Materials and Methods" focuses primarily on the wide variety of materials that can be employed to make models; those which have been favoured for a while and those which are relatively new.

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Practical Furniture Design: From Drawing Board to Smart Construction

Woodwork

Offers woodworkers with the advice they need to design their own projects by presenting insights on the design process, ideas for creating working drawings and information on how to solve construction problems. This book features furniture types that include tables, casework, cabinets, chairs and a selection of special-purpose furniture.

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Mies Van Der Rohe

History of Art & Design

Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience.
Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one of underlying truth in pure forms and proportions. With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, he sought a stripped-down purity to architecture, showcased by the likes of the Seagram Building and Farnsworth House. Some spoke out against this stark approach as the precursor to bland, generic cityscapes. Others cite Mies van der Rohe as the ultimate master of an abidingly elegant essence.

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Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics

Metalwork

In Learn to Weld, teach yourself to be a master of the craft with this valuable step-by-step instruction book, complete with learning tools and safety procedures for your welding needs.

50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials

Industrial / commercial art & design

Hundreds of color photographs, many taken especially for this book, reveal the state-of-the-art of the table as it has been distinctively interpreted by some of the most talented and accomplished designers in the world. The examples in 50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials have been chosen from the production of the past decade and are presented in a clear, graphic style with intentionally minimal text.

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The Architectural Drawing Course: The hand drawing techniques every architect should know

Drawing

All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book for its solid foundational orientation and instruction. Mo Zell introduces readers to architecture's visual language, showing them how to think spatially and getting them started in architectural drawing with a series of instructional tutorials. Using three-dimensional design problems, she coaches students through the fundamentals of proportion and scale, space and volume, path and place and materials and textures. A series of study units cover virtually every aspect of architectural drawing. This book concludes with practical advice for anyone considering a career in architectural design, offering ideas on building a portfolio, getting advanced training and continuing on a path to a professional career.

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Sheet Metal Fabrication: Techniques and Tips for Beginners and Pros

Metalwork

In our mechanized day of mass production, the craft of hand-forming sheet metal into compound curves and dashing fins and fenders is fast becoming a lost art.

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