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Promopress Fashion Drawing Course: From Human Figure to Fashion Illustration
When fashion designers draw the human body they need to capture its movement and also take into account how it responds to fabrics and volumes. "Fashion Drawing Course" analyses the most useful techniques for drawing the human figure in the context of fashion design. It offers in-depth explanatory texts and illustrations that will help to nurture a full comprehension of this type of figure drawing. Fashion Drawing Course is divided into two parts: the first section focuses on the human body and the second one explores the drawing of clothes.
£16.19
Promopress Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics and Materials
The planet has reached a critical point and it is up to us all to innovate and drive change in all aspects of life, including how we design, produce and purchase our clothing. The fashion industry and its procedures are changing rapidly thanks to the visionary mindset of innovators, the renewal of industrial processes, and a reconsideration of existing values. More and more customers are demanding the clothes they buy to be socially and environmentally aware: no child labour, minimal ecological impact, and safe working conditions are the basis of the sustainable values that customers are expecting from fashion companies. This book provides all the necessary insight for designers, fashion companies, retailers, and consumers that want to become more sustainable. It includes a comprehensive overview of the current actions taken by pioneering designers and brands, and how they are integrating basic sustainable principles, as well as eco- friendly and repurposed materials, to create a new generation of fashion products, including information on different fabric types, alternative production methods, and practical care advice for garments.
£22.50
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: Haute Couture (Vol. 2)
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 who makes the stylist’s ideas a reality. In our richly illustrated new volume in the Fashion Patternmaking series, the prolific author Antonio Donnanno describes the methods and techniques used in high-fashion for making drapes, frills and flounces, collars, necklines and sleeves, and high-fashion trousers and skirts in a detailed, understandable and step-by-step way.
£25.20
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: Haute Couture, Vol. 1
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.
£25.20
Promopress Knitwear Fashion Design: Drawing Knitted Fabrics and Garments
Knitwear Fashion Design aims to help fashion students to understand the basic design elements in knitwear and learn how illustrate them. Whether handmade or industrially- produced, deconstructive or avant-garde, knitwear has now become a staple collection piece every season and its resurgence as a key fashion item has rekindled a trend and a keen interest in this once very traditional craft. Developments in modern techniques, the revival of traditional craft skills and a new appreciation of couture craftsmanship have put knitwear back into the fashion spotlight. This practical book begins with a thorough exposition of basic yarns and threads, picot, mohair s, knots, together with a brief description about their structure and illustrations for each example. Together with a thorough presentation of a variety of patterns and complements ending with the most common knitwear types, it is documented by a range of suitable poses in movement based on contemporary apparel. Offering an extensive overview about yarn types, garment, accessories and finishes this book also teaches how to transform and renovate basic pieces. Various attractive designs are shown as well as the stitches needed to create and illustrate these garments such as cable, Aran, jacquards, ribs etc. Whether hand knitted or industrially produced the book is a glorious celebration of the new vogue in knitting, showcasing examples of knitted pieces from fashion great designers. Encouraging the reader to be innovative, this book is sure to be an inspiration for anyone working with or interested in knitted textiles and garment illustration. "
£20.25
Promopress Visit Spain
Between 1955 and 1965 Ramón Masats toured the geography of Spain with his camera. A commission on national values for an illustrated Gazette that allowed the development of a new, synthetic language, accurate in content and splendid in its graphics. Masats’ work coincides with the end of Franco’s the regime autarky and with the international opening designed by the Ministry of Education and Tourism. Visit Spain was that first message that tourist propaganda used. This catalogue allows us to take a look at that Spain from the perspective of one of the most decisive photographers in our country.
£35.00
Promopress New Bracelets: 400+ Contemporary Jewellery Designs
New Bracelets showcases more than 400 bracelets by 200 jewellers, selected from a pool of artists from across the world. This new title by Nicolás Estrada confirms that contemporary jewellery is flourishing: readers will be surprised and delighted with the freshness, diversity, and colourfulness of the many different styles in this collection. It incorporates jewellery designs in a wide variety of materials and approaches, including classic gold, silver, and precious stones, as well as paper, wood, plastic, and resins. This comprehensive selection puts its finger on the pulse of what is happening in the world of jewellery artists right now. It is part of our ongoing series on contemporary jewellery. New Bracelets includes prefaces by Barbara Schmidt and Helen Britton.
£24.75
Promopress Human Figure Drawing: Drawing Gestures, Postures and Movements
'Human Figure Drawing' offers a refreshing perspective on this time timeless topic, with clear and helpful explanations and around 500 illustrations in b&w and colour. This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure and regain our ability to observe a subject. Being able to capture the human body is a basic requirement for any artist and 'Human Figure Drawing' will help the reader conquer the fear of making mistakes and teach them how to draw with the confidence and curiosity of a child. In this new edition, the layout is completely new, the images have been updated and the readability has been improved.
£22.49
Promopress Colour in Fashion Illustration: Drawing and Painting Techniques
This book is a practical manual intended specifically for anyone interested in delving into the technique of granting colour to fashion figurine illustrations to give them more life and expressiveness. In a clear and educational way, Tiziana Paci, author of the well-known book Figure Drawing for Fashion Design, explains in detail the different themes examined in the work through images and examples along with concise and to-the-point texts ideal for neophytes as well as people who have been working in this field for years. The book is divided into the following chapters: poses, colour and colour combinations, watercolour technique, tools such as professional markers, coloured pencil and water-soluble graphite, digital techniques and mixed techniques. Together, these suggestions allow both beginner and professional illustrators to depict figurines in vivid poses with incredible effects including the imitation of any type of material: leather, jewellery, bright fabrics and transparencies, and many more, following very different styles.
£26.99
Promopress Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art and Style
Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of colour combinations, the moods and atmospheres they evoke and how we associate particular places and emotions to special colours. Each chapter explores a particular mood and describes the corresponding feelings and colour combinations, using as examples exquisite photographs of objects, still-lives, landscapes, interiors and fashion. At the end of each chapter, a wide variety of palettes representing the chapter’s particular mood or atmosphere is included.
£17.99
Promopress Picasso: The Photographer's Gaze
Pablo Picasso always maintained a complex and intense relationship with photography and with the photographers in his milieu, something that could be seen when he pretended to be a reporter one summer, when he used his image as an icon, or when he took inspired and playful self-portraits. This book, which is also the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name at the Museu Picasso of Barcelona, immerses the reader in the universe of Picasso through photography and brings together images that explore all the facets of a creator who is simultaneously the author, model, witness and viewer of his work and life.
£32.40
Promopress Letters as Films
This book of correspondence between filmmakers brings together more than fifty letters writing between artists Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Robert Frank and Bill Brandt. Postcards, manuscripts and typewritten letters together with recent emails reveal unknown and surprising relationships, a whole creative universe that take place outside the cinematographic plane. The material gathered by Garbiñe Ortega, director of Punto de vista International Documentary Film Festival, includes stills, portraits, drawings and story boards that bring the creative process closer to a personal and intimate sphere. Contributing Letters Come From: Robert Frank Bill Brand Jean-Luc Godard Jonas Mekas Robert Bresson Chick Strand Barbara Hammer Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ute Aurand Lech Kowalski Nathaniel Dorsky Nancy Holt Jim Jarmusch Harun Farocki George Kuchar Jean Vigo James Benning Jodie Mack Jem Cohen
£22.50
Promopress Exploring Hyperrealism: Drawing and Painting Techniques
This original work introduces readers to the hyperrealist movement, a style applied to painting whose techniques aspire to photographic exactitude in drawing. From the first action before viewing the piece – the search for information and reference images – to different drawing and sculpture techniques, the book offers a step-by-step explanation of the creative process and shows readers how to illustrate in black and white and with colored pencils, how to work with watercolors and oil, how to create a trompe l’oeil and how to create a realistic looking 3D model. Readers will find all the techniques and suggestions they need to make their own hyperrealist creations, all explained in a pleasant and fun way. It is an original and creative way to introduce different drawing techniques that will awaken the artist inside of us all and whose results will strike most readers as surprising given the degree of realism achieved, as if they were photographs. The book includes references to contemporary artists who have used each of the techniques described, curiosities in the world of art and other tricks of the trade.
£17.99
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques for Accessories: Shoes, Bags, Hats, Gloves, Ties, Buttons and Dog Clothing
This book is an essential and practical tool for designing and creating fashion accessories for men and women. Intended for fashion students and professionals, the book includes different pattern techniques for each accessory and explains production processes so that readers can incorporate them into their professional practice, in addition to identifying and providing the information needed to recreate a wide range of accessory models. It includes descriptions of materials, examples of patterns and designs and different possible finishes through illustrations, photographs, technical drawings and texts that clearly explain the production process of each artisanal and industrial piece. As items that provide personality and originality to one's personal style, fashion accessories have become essential to completing the "look" for each occasion. With the help of this manual, having in-depth knowledge about the creation of different pieces, from a bag to a pair of shoes to hats, gloves, ties and buttons -even clothing for dogs-, is a great way to get started in this branch of the fashion field.
£26.99
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques for Children's Clothing
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. AUTHOR: Antonio Donnanno began his career in his family's tailor shop and later, after majoring in history and philosophy, focused on the teaching of costume history and pattern-making techniques. In 1982, he founded the acknowledged Euromode School Italia in Bergamo, which soon expanded with new branches on the international stage and where, alongside his teaching duties, Donnanno also serves as director. Antonio Donnanno has written dozens of books about fashion and has his own consulting firm, focusing on pattern-making and business. SELLING POINTS: . There is only one competitor on the market . A detailed description which has been prooved and corrected in everydays's teaching praxis in Italy. . 17th edition in Italy!
£26.99
Promopress Fashion Illustration and Design
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.
£22.49
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: Women & Men: How to Make Skirts and Trousers: 1
Divided into eight clear chapters, the book starts with an in-depth study on measuring and body shaping, before examining fabric technology and sartorial terminology. It describes a wide range of skirts and trousers, both for women and men, from the basic to the highly elaborate.
£26.99
Promopress Wuhan before Wuhan
Wuhan before Wuhan captures a transformation process, both personal and photographic, of the Spanish photographer Jorquera, who reached in 2007 this Chinese city, at that time completely unknow for the West. He chose Wuhan, located in the country's hinterland, far from the megacities like Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, in order to settle there and create bonds, to focus on a more doable place, nestle into the context. But the lack of referents and communication led him to feel isolated, and isolation led to disorientation. Thus Jorquera began to undertake a more introspective odyssey, a journey inwards, where Wuhan represents something very basic yet universal: the quest for identity. AUTHOR: Born in Pontevedra (Spain) in 1972, Jorquera is one of the great names in young contemporary Spanish photography. A founding member of the Nophoto collective and editor of various publications, his professional work is focused on China since 2002. His work Wuhan before Wuhan, his most ambitious to date, comes after nine years living in the city. The photographic essay is organised into interior and exterior atmospheres, into moods that shape an autobiographical story that is simultaneously a quest and a pathway of interpretation. His intention was to break through where there are no recognisable coordinates or familiar parameters, and throughout the process he managed to settle, to build himself. To inhabit oddness. 215 images
£34.20
Promopress Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair
Easy, well-illustrated manual which describes how to mend clothes. This manual provides all necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing clothes. The publication explains in an easy to understand and simple language the most usual clothing repairs, like shortening pants, a seam to be redone, darning a hole, shortening the sleeves of a shirt, etc. From learning to do stitches by hand to using the sewing machine, the author guides the reader throughout the process by simple texts and useful photographs proving that mending is easy. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms. With this DIY guide, the reader will be able to perform some alterations and mendings without the need of going to the professional tailor. It's a basic manual, but also contains some more complicated mendings that people with advanced skills can tackle. AUTHOR: Anna De Leo was born in Cosenza in 1987. In 2014 she graduated at the Euromode School Italia, in Bormio in Valtellina. In 2015 she moved to Udine, where she attended a course of tailoring repair at the Ires (Institute of Economic and Social Research Friuli Venezia Giulia). She later enrolled in the Fashion Design course at Milan Fashion Campus in Milan, and an online Personal Shopper and Image consultant course. From 2015 to 2017 she worked in different fashion companies, refining knowledge and skills that allow her to experiment also with the packaging of the clothes and the study of new modeling techniques. She is an author of fashion-related books. SELLING POINTS: . An essential resource for any household. . Fixing clothes explained in a simple and clear way. . The reader will learn how to perform the most simple and common alterations and mendings to their clothes. 300 colour illustrations
£17.99
Promopress Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists
Collage by Women presents 50 international women artists working in the field of collage today through a rigorous selection of their works. Curated by the Spanish collage artist Rebeka Elizegi, the book gives space to voices from all backgrounds, origins, and artistic expressions, and shows the wide variety of perspectives that are shaping the panorama of collage today, bringing to light a parallel effervescence of female artistic initiatives around the world. From emerging names to more well-known and established ones, the artists featured here are pushing back the boundaries of art. Collage by Women wants to call attention to the experiences and creative processes of artists that should be on our radar through an impressive selection of manual and digital techniques, topics and aesthetic choices, accompanied by texts that provide indepth approaches to the inspiration, influences and work trajectory of each artist. Born from the belief that women’s voices are of the utmost relevance in all cultural and social fields, the book will surely contribute to a healthier, more comprehensive, more inclusive nderstanding of our reality.
£26.99
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: How to Make Jackets, Coats and Cloaks for Women and Men: Volume 3
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.
£25.20
Promopress Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: Women/Men How to Make Shirts, Undergarments, Dresses and Suits, Waistcoats, Men's Jackets: Volume 2
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.
£26.99
Promopress Alphabeatz: Tagging Alphabets from A to Z
Graffiti writing was born in the streets of Philadelphia in the late 1960s. But it was in New York in the early 1970s that it became a full-fledged urban art, gradually taking over the landscape of the city, from its walls to its subway cars. In these years when this art form was emerging, graffiti pioneers laid its foundations through the constant game they played with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, which they distorted and highlighted in the tags that they painted on walls. In the first section of this book, Woshe recounts the incredible story of the birth of this culture. He then offers us a detailed examination of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, their structure and the ways in which graffiti writers have made them evolve. This study is enriched with a wealth of illustrations and examples of the customisations that artists add to their letters. At the end of the volume, ten of the international scene's most talented graffiti creators answer Woshe's questions about matters that include their practice, their relationship with letters and their backgrounds. Interviews with: BATES (Copenhague, Denmark); DARCO (Paris, France); DEMS (Elche, Spain); GESER (Connecticut USA); JURNE (Oakland, CA,USA); LOKISS (Paris, France); SERCH (Zwolle, The Netherlands); SWET (Copenhague, Denmark); SYE (New Yor, NY,USA); ZOER (Grasse, France). This is a writing manual, an inspiring collection of ideas and a beautiful book on the world of graffiti, but above all it is a declaration of love for this culture that mixes urban performance and mastery of letters. It includes a map of New York with the sites where the most important graffiti are located. AUTHOR: Born in 1972 in Val-de-Marne (France), Woshe discovered his first graffiti at the age of 14 by taking the train. Fascinated by these clandestine paintings that appropriate urban greyness, using the letter as a subject for experimentation, he begins to sketch his first drawings. Over time and encounters, he discovers a true culture, initiated by pioneers, full of codes and positive values in which he recognises himself. For 30 years now, he has relentlessly traced the alphabetical material, juggling with styles and answering the most diverse orders. Considered a letter specialist, Woshe is also the author of two best-selling books on the subject. SELLING POINTS: . A complete account of graffiti writing culture. . Includes interviews with ten of the most talented graffiti creators on the international scene. . The must have for all graffiti lovers.
£25.20
Promopress Otl Aicher: Architecture and Landscape
This publication collects many unpublished material from Otl Aicher, a legendary figure in contemporary design. The eighty unpublished drawings of the Metro Bilbao corporate image project stand out, a commission resulting from his friendship with Norman Foster. In these pages you will also be able to discover the creation processes of other famous works by Aicher, such as those of Braun, the Munich Olympics ‘72, Bulthaup or Isny Allgäu, as well as unpublished materials from his architecture projects for Rotis, an old agricultural complex which became a place of residence and work.
£35.10
Promopress Eduardo Nave: Normandie
This book is the particular tribute of the photographer Eduardo Nave to the Normandy Landing, of which the 75th anniversary has just been celebrated. Every year since June 6, 1944, what is undoubtedly one of the most important events in modern history has been commemorated, which meant a change in the configuration of Europe. Between 2003 and 2005, Eduardo Nave made two photographic series on the Landing beaches, and a last one in 2019, in the same year of the 75th anniversary. All of them make up this beautiful book, in which the author investigates what remains today on the ground of that key moment in history.
£34.20
Promopress Palette Perfect For Graphic Designers And Illustrators: Colour Combinations, Meanings and Cultural References
The creative use of colour and its combinations in illustration, graphic and product design involves understanding how emotions are conveyed and how they affect our design and illustrations. We must also consider that colour is perceived differently in different countries and cultures. All this is widely explained in this second book in the Palette Perfect series, illustrated with projects by renowned international illustrators and designers, and organized by colours (identified with CMYK, RGB and HEX codes) and moods associated with the time of day. Based on real examples drawn from graphic design, product design and illustration, different innovative combinations and palettes are shown for each colour as well as the meaning it conveys. Intended for graphic designers, design students, fashion and interior design lovers, and all those interested in exciting and unexpected colour combinations that work.
£17.99
Promopress Japanese Tattoos: Meanings, Shapes, and Motifs
The intimate relationship of Japanese tattooing with the dark world of the yakuza has helped cover this form of artistic expression with an aura of mystery. But the culture of irezumi is deep and rich in meanings, shapes and motifs that have gone from color woodblock prints to being applied to the skin to beautify and protect their bearers. This book reveals the meaning and the secrets behind the most significant motifs from traditional Japanese tattooing-such as mythological and supernatural creatures, animals, Buddhist deities, flowers and historical characters-and turns this art form into a path toward personal knowledge and individual expression. Readers will discover the origin and meaning of each visual representation of the most frequent themes in this art form. Irezumi itai begins with a brief review of the history of Japanese tattoo art and then examines each subject (water, mythological animals, real animals, mythological characters, historical characters, flowers, shunga and yokai) through images and descriptive texts; it also includes a gallery of original designs by the author and a glossary.
£20.25
Promopress Jewellery Illustration and Design: Techniques for Achieving Professional Results
This book analyzes the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewelry. The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool materials and the relationship between the support and the stone are explained in depth along with ways to illuminate jewelry, treatment of light and chiaroscuro play to add depth. The book begins with simple geometric structures and moves on to explore more complex forms through a range of distortions and multiplications. The goal is not to show finished pieces of jewelry but to provide the tools that will enable readers to acquire a work method that allows them to represent their ideas effectively. From orthogonal and axonometric projections to techniques (watercolor, tempera, ink, mixed technique) and different possible supports, readers will find a source of inspiration for developing their own designs. Rings, tiaras, precious stones, bracelets and chains) are graphically represented in this book as if they were real, along with effects such as depth, gloss and transparency.
£26.99
Promopress Liquid Stage: XII Havana Biennial
‘Behind the Wall’ emerged in 2012 as part of the official exhibition of the 11th Havana Biennial. For the 13th edition of this important event, ‘Detrás del Muro’ is presented as part of the official exhibition, but also as a sociocultural project that seeks to make its work a constant resource in favor of the sociocultural and community development of the city. On one hand, ‘Liquid Stage’, which is the theme of the artistic intervention, and on the other hand DEDELMU, the origin of an artistic institution focused on cultural promotion, artistic production and community work that will have headquarters in Malecón. Within the repertoire of works that will be presented in the Liquid Stage, all are proposed as a direct dialogue with the space in which they are registered, of public nature, monumental scale, urban node par excellence, Havana’s main façade. Thirty Cuban artists will be presented, among them some National Prizes of the Plastic Arts and other international artists.
£28.80
Promopress Botanicals
Plants or vegetal forms representation have been a constant through history of photography. Whether from the objective photography or the idea of archive, several artists have decided focusing on plants. Understanding this catalogue as a contemporary garden, ‘Botanicals’ creates a visual narration from artworks within Per Amor a l’Art collection, selected and curated by Vicente Todolí. The plates shows the photographs by artists as: • Karl Blossfeldt • Imogen Cunningham • Hans-Peter Feldmann • Jonas Mekas • Nobuyoshi Araki • Richard Hamilton • Juan del Junco • Albert Renger-Patzxch • Pierre Verger • Alessandra Spranzi • Mathieu Mercier • Jochen Lempert
£27.00
Hoaki Jewellery Illustration and Design, Vol.2: From the Idea to the Project
After the introduction into geometry, perspective and the representation of materials in vol 1, this volume constitutes a thorough and complete study on the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewellery. Having learned about geometry, perspective and representation of materials in the first volume, this second book in this two-part series delves deeper into the process of designing jewellery, from the first sketch to the final representation, with special emphasis on how to work on ideas, plan a collection, and design and depict a wide variety of pieces. The fundamentals of drawing different pieces, such as necklaces, rings, earrings, and bracelets, are carefully explained and illustrated in the book, which includes all the technical details to be taken into consideration when planning a jewellery piece, from the executive point of view. While the first volume focused on the tools needed to be able to accurately convey ideas, draw different materials, facets and effects, and master the use of colour, this publication tackles the process from the initial idea, based in natural or geometrical forms, to the final drawing of the completed piece, including illustration techniques and sources of inspiration, all aspects that will stir up the reader's creativity. It is the ultimate tool and resource for jewellery students and professionals, and even illustrators in search of professional guidelines in freehand drawing and painting techniques when representing jewellery. AUTHORS: Manuela Brambatti began her career in the fashion world in the late 1970s working for Style and other fashion magazines. She has collaborated with Giorgio Correggiari, Krizia and Gian Marco Venturi, but her most important and far-reaching experience was her work with Gianni Versace, where she played a crucial role in setting standards with regard to the presentation and illustration of the house's fashion and home collections. She currently freelances as an illustrator in the fashion, jewellery and design industries. She is the author of the best-selling title Fashion Illustration and Design and Fashion Illustration Design for Accessories, both from Promopress. Cosimo Vinci studied jewellery design in Florence and Vicenza, Italy. With a focus on artistic consulting, branding and project design for jewellery, watches, sunglasses and fashion accessories, his clients are international companies both small and large, from high-end to fashion jewellery. The styles he produces range from exclusive and contemporary to young and fun. He has designed pieces for famous fashion brands such as Versace, Versus, Balmain, Montana, Laura Biagiotti, Valentino and Etro. Since 1998, he has taught at the Arts and Crafts School in Vicenza and has conducted seminars in many parts of the world on the subject. In 2011, Vinci won the Bijoux d'Autore design competition awarded by the Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (Contemporary Jewelry Association, Italy). SELLING POINTS: . This book analyses the fundamental aspects of designing jewellery and collection ideas based on natural or geometrical forms . It includes all the technical details to be considered when planning a piece of jewellery, from an executive point of view . A complete, in-depth manual that explains everything one needs to know about designing an drawing jewellery . Readers will learn how to depict earrings, necklaces, rings, and bracelets as if they were real 400 illustrations
£26.99