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Turning revolt into style
Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic designis a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture’s key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity in relation to the professional practices and technological conventions of the graphic design ...
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Becoming couture
Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca.
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Dress and globalisation
The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, ‘alternative’ dressing, and T...
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A trade in dreams
A lavishly illustrated cultural history of print advertising in EgyptAt the tail end of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was shifting economies and redrawing global power maps. In this changing world, advertising became more than just a way to sell products—it was a powerful tool...
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Fashion projects
This book collects together the best articles from the long-running journal Fashion Projects, most issues of which are now unavailable. Through detailed interviews with designers, critics and curators, the book chronicles the ascent of fashion as a critical force across media, the museum and the ...
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Ray petri
Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena. This book traces how Petri’s radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicized the relationship between fashion an...
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Italian graphic design
This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian vi...
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Alessandro michele
Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele’s impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling.
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Manliness in britain, 1760–1900
This book focuses on men’s bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about ...
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Seamlessness
Taking the concept of 'seamlessness' as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and globalized production and consumption. Combining firsthand experience of making seamless garments w...
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Embroidering identities
Companion piece to the exhibit held at the Oriental Institute from November 11, 2006 to March 25, 2007. It is an overview of the colourful and distinctive clothing of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Palestine. The volume includes a glossary of Arabic terms and a checklist to the exhibit.
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Architecture and the urban in spanish film
An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship between filmmaking – the seventh art – and the built environment. Contributions from scholars in the fields of film, architecture and urban studies. 82 b/w photographs
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Prototyping across the disciplines
Looks at the use of prototyping in design research across a range of disciplines. Uses case studies to demonstrate theoretical and methodological transferability among disciplines not typically thought to be related to one another. This is an important contribution to the emerging field of integr...
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Refashioning the renaissance
How did ordinary men and women dressinearly modernEurope? This book provides new perspectives on clothing and fashion history by investigating the consumption, material significance and cultural meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the ‘popular’ classes.
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Cross-cultural design for healthy ageing
Promotes an understanding of 'design for healthy ageing' from a multi-faceted perspective of design and health practitioners. Provides tools and methods for approaching the complex issues associated with ageing through cross-cultural interactions and perspectives. Incl. case-studies run in Asia-...
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The social object
A book about the biography of projects and objects. Where projects serve as book ends to a detailed account of objects with the homes of the not so rich. By silencing the designer, the book allows accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that serve as evidence of a hidden maelstrom of...
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Radical intimacies
The concept of radical intimacies is about a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The political dimension involves qualities that enable alternatives to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Engages design wit...
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Transcultural things and the spectre of orientalism in early modern poland-lithuania
Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Graffiti as devotion along the nile and beyond
The historical context for a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 at El-Kurru in northern Sudan, a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists an...
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A history of arab graphic design
PROSE Award Winner, Art History & Criticism “Easily the best introduction to the history of modern Arab visual culture on the market today.”—The Brooklyn Rail The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic design, now available in ArabicArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth c...
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George petrides interiors
A retrospective portfolio of the work of Greek Cypriot interior designer Georges Petrides. Design projects spanning the period 1991 to 2015 are illustrated. Nearly 400 pages, almost all illustrated in full colour, including rarely seen images of private houses designed by Petrides. 350 colour ill...
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Design in airline travel posters 1920-1970
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information an...
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Transglobal fashion narratives
Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society – who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog and artist ...
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Design for the new world
Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design offers an innovative combination of design and design thinking, systemic leadership, and indigenous thinking, that can reshape the way we think about and work with sustainable transformation. 81 colour illustrations. A PDF version of t...
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Design and the creation of social value
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Design discourse on culture and society
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Instafame
Instafame charts the impact of Instagram – one of the world's most popular social media platforms – on visual culture in the decade following its launch. It traces the connections between graffiti, street art and Instagram, arguing that social media's battle for a viewer's attention is closely al...
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Design discourse on business and industry
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Becoming designers
Design Research is an area that is both current and growing, but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education and practice. It offers a valuable context within which to understand the educational...
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Design in the age of change
Change is the only constant. In recent times, the world experienced a global pandemic, social inequalities, climate change, racial injustices, riots and unrests and rapid advances of new technologies – all at once. Although many fear change, it is the job of designers to create and thrive in such...
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Design and digital interaction
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Philosophical frameworks and design processes
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Montréal chic
Montréal Chic is the first book to document Montréal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes ...
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Planet cosplay
Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption.
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The greek chest (english language edition)
For centuries, the chest was the only piece of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valuable as a functional item, connected with everyday events and the most important stations in a person's life (birth, marriage and death) the chest has profound, symbolic meaning in the imagi...
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Helliniki kasela (greek language edition)
For centuries, the chest was the only piece of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valuable as a functional item, connected with everyday events and the most important stations in a person's life (birth, marriage and death) the chest has profound, symbolical meaning in the ima...
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Copenhagen chic
The first comprehensive study of the Copenhagen fashion culture in English, aims to inspire future generations of thinkers, creators, and practitioners in fashion and design fields to make the fashion industry more sustainable, ethical, and just. Latest in the Urban Chic series. 100 b/w illus.
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Thom browne
In a little over twenty years, New York–-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America’s distinctive preppie style, he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blur...
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Yves saint laurent
This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent’s contributions to fashion, art and culture.
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Fashioning the dandy
The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards...
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Fashion education
Fashion Education maps out a praxis of inclusive fashion pedagogy. In this collection of 17 essays, fashion educators from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK recount their experiences, struggles and strategies of radically redesigning fashion curriculum to centre Black, Indigenous, brown, fat, ...
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Canadian critical luxury studies
The first study of Canada’s historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton’s Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal’s fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes Canadian luxu...
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One hundred highlights
The Trier City Library preserves bibliophilic treasures of the highest value, dating back to the 7th century. The Codex Egberti, the Trier Apocalypse, the Ada Evangelia or the Gutenberg Bible are particular treasures. This catalogue presents in words and images 100 of the most significant items f...
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European fashion
This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the internal culture of the trade, explaining the significance of value creation and assessing the transformation of local industries into global bra...
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The wood engravers' self-portrait
The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture.
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Crafting identities
What did it mean to be an artisan in early modern London? Through an innovative and inter-disciplinary approach to urban social, cultural and architectural histories, this book examines how individual and corporate identities were forged through negotiation of the spatial and material cultures of...
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Emerging thoughts in disability and humanness
Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human.
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Comradely objects
This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design. It argues that the ‘comradely objects’ of Russian productivism were not just shabby copies of western commodities – they were agents of progressive social relations with a discernible inheritance from the 1920s avant-garde.
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Out of the ivory tower
An in-depth discussion of the recent historiography of the Independent Group, examining its history from the alternative perspective of popular culture
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Fashionability
This book examines the history of design and innovation at Abraham Moon and Sons of Guiseley. It is an exciting story of two families, the Moons and the Walshes, who created one of Yorkshire’s longest-living woollen mills that today serves global brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren P...
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Material goods, moving hands
In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines mater...
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Surface tensions
The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of obje...
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The study of dress history
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on mater...
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No more giants
This book is a history of J. M. Richards’ career as editor of The Architectural Review and as an architectural critic and writer from 1933-73. The book explores Richards’ ideas about anonymity, modernism and public participation in architecture.
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Critical design in japan
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese design as beautiful, sublime or a simple product of ‘Japanese culture’, and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique.
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'the industrialized designer'
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the 'heroic male designer'. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the US from 1930–80, a 'new professi...
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Representations of british motoring
It is a book that provides new insights into the established discourses of British motoring, exposing the importance of advertising campaigns and motoring journals and addressing issues prompted by new models, ownership and the motoring landscape.
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Lifestyle revolution
Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines – as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings ...
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Deco dandy
This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy, the books claims an essential role and place of the male body and masculinity in the history of Art Deco.
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Interior design and identity
This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female ‘home makers’ in sea...
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The culture of fashion
This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in d...
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Crossing gender boundaries
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues t...
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Critical studies in fashion and beauty
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty brings together articles from the first volume of this cutting-edge journal – which is also the first of its kind in the field. Taken together, the pieces collected here offer a snapshot of critical debate in fashion, a growing area of scholarly interest. ...
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Teaching and learning design
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Drawing in the design process
In the early days of the digital revolution in graphic design, many designers and teachers of design were convinced that the era of drawing on paper was over – that there would soon no longer be a place for craft-based drawing at any stage of the design process. It soon became apparent, however, ...
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Design for business
This collection continues the successful Design for Business series, gathering work by scholars, researchers and professionals that aim to raise awareness of design as a strategic business resource by consolidating it with other divergent, yet highly influential fields. Volume 3 covers such topic...
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