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Sheet Metal Shaping: Tools, Skills, and Projects

Metalwork

Award-winning automotive restorer demystifies the art of sheet metal shaping for enthusiasts of all skill levels.

Whether you want to create custom or replacement parts or build an entire automobile body, this metalworking course for gearheads from best-selling automotive restoration author and professor Ed Barr will take you as far as your interests reach. Barr demystifies this seemingly black art with information on tools and basic skills and 14 customizable projects, fully illustrated with step-by-step color photography.

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

Fashion and textile design

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion designers to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics. Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge.

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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.

Home Guide to Woodwork

Woodwork

"The Home Guide to Woodwork" is for all woodwork enthusiasts. With a e blend of accessible practical advice and original projects, this book is fully illustrated throughout, and will enable you to furnish your house with exquisite timber pieces. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Complete Guide to Joint-Making

Woodwork

This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the all-important subject of choosing, designing and cutting woodworking joints. Strong, appropriate and well-fitting joints are one of the hallmarks of the skilled woodworker. Making them properly requires intelligent planning, accurate marking out and a sufficient degree of care in the cutting, fitting and final assembly. A methodical approach is essential, and that is what this book provides.

500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style

Furniture Design

These 500 tables are more than just practical places to set a coffee cup or notepad; they’re inspired works of art. Esteemed juror Andrew Glasgow has selected a wide array of styles and forms, from pieces that showcase masterful woodwork to ones that feature alternative materials and aesthetic sensibilities. The striking examples include Gord Peteran¹s end table fashioned from swirling red electrical wire, Boris Bally¹s small square transit table made of recycled aluminum traffic signs, and Stephen Whittlesey's "Eddy," which uses driftwood, salvaged oak, and chestnut. More than 300 artists are featured, and every work offers readers stunning craftsmanship, constant surprise, and beauty.

Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design

Model Making

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. Modern product development is a multi-disciplinary effort that relies on prototyping in order to explore new ideas and test them sufficiently before they become actual products. Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Designers illustrates how prototypes are used to help designers understand problems better, explore more imaginative solutions, investigate human interaction more fully and test functionality so as to de-risk the design process.

50 chairs: Innovations in design and materials

Furniture Design

Photographs and drawings document some of the most distinguished modern chair designs, accompanied by details on the conception and production of some of the most famous examples from the 20th century.

The Jeweler's Studio Handbook : Traditional and Contemporary Techniques for Working with Metal and Mixed Media Materials

Jewellery Design

Master the art and craft of metal jewelry making in your own home studio!

Great jewelry is original, well-designed, and -- with the right tools -- can be created at home by the aspiring artist. The Jeweler's Studio Handbook guides you through the process of equipping your own jewelry studio and teaches you the techniques that will have you crafting one-of-a-kind metal jewelry in no time.

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