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Bestselling fashion author Martin Dawber brings the best collection of today's fashion print designs into one volume. With over 35 designers from all over the world -- Europe, Asia, North America and Pacific -- and over 200 different prints, this is a terrific resource for print designers and illustrators working today. Arranged and delivered in the same format as the highly successful New Fashion Illustration, it covers all types of print designs, from floral, geometric and figurative through to minimalist and psychedelic.
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Martin Dawber is an internationally acclaimed author on contemporary fashion, style and image. A graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art, he was the Principal Lecturer in Fashion at John Moores University for over 30 years and continues to be globally in demand as a recognised authority on fashion and illustration. He is the best-selling author of New Fashion Illustration, New Fashion Prints and Big Book of Fashion Illustration.
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I bought this book to use in my classroom. I teach secondary textiles and this book has been really useful for helping kids to think of new designs other than just the regular butterflies and hearts they seem to get stuck on, whether its inspiration for a new theme, layout, or simply just copying something from the book on to a fabric and adding their own twist, its been a fantastic resource. The kids love looking at the shiny pictures too. I would say that there could have been a greater variety of designs perhaps, as i found it a little 'samey' and there is definitely a theme to the patterns, but overall its pretty good.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An OK book on pattern designers
8 Feb 2010
Pattern has become so popular over the past few years, with a ludicrous number of books on pattern designers, that this book no longer stands out. When it was released in 2008 I bought it because there wasn't as much available. Many recent books have copied the format, so if you have almost any other book on pattern design (Victionary etc) this one will feel very familiar to you.
The book is specifically on prints for fashion, however disappointingly none of the patterns are shown on their actual substrate (fabric), nor are the fashion items these were used for pictured. The images are instead just reproductions of the digital artwork/drawing. This is a shame as the foreword specifically discusses textile development: a pattern looks quite different on fabric, as small details become blurred by the weave or texture. The scale of the prints also has a lot to do with how effective patterns look, and the book gives no hint about the scale the designers intended. For this reason I prefer "Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge" by Quinn, as this shows the textiles in their final intended use.
The two-page introduction very briefly summarizes the history of print in fashion in the 20th century.
The 39 designers or design teams are grouped geographically into sections titled Europe, Americas and Asia. For each there is a one-page artist's statement, covering their personal motivation and philosophy, formal training, working methods, etc, then between three and six pages of their artwork with very brief captions.
The production qualities are high, and this is an enjoyable book to look through, with glossy pages, large images, and a good binding. There is a very wide variety of pattern styles included, from geometric to organic, computer generated fractals to cute illustrative styles.
This book is not designed to help you make your own patterns, or to learn to use any design software. If this is what you are looking for I recommend Chopin's "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Designers", or "Digital Textile Design" by Bowles and Isaac.
So overall, a nice book to flip through if you want to get inspiration for your own designs, but by no means an essential to add to the library.
The book is specifically on prints for fashion, however disappointingly none of the patterns are shown on their actual substrate (fabric), nor are the fashion items these were used for pictured. The images are instead just reproductions of the digital artwork/drawing. This is a shame as the foreword specifically discusses textile development: a pattern looks quite different on fabric, as small details become blurred by the weave or texture. The scale of the prints also has a lot to do with how effective patterns look, and the book gives no hint about the scale the designers intended. For this reason I prefer "Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge" by Quinn, as this shows the textiles in their final intended use.
The two-page introduction very briefly summarizes the history of print in fashion in the 20th century.
The 39 designers or design teams are grouped geographically into sections titled Europe, Americas and Asia. For each there is a one-page artist's statement, covering their personal motivation and philosophy, formal training, working methods, etc, then between three and six pages of their artwork with very brief captions.
The production qualities are high, and this is an enjoyable book to look through, with glossy pages, large images, and a good binding. There is a very wide variety of pattern styles included, from geometric to organic, computer generated fractals to cute illustrative styles.
This book is not designed to help you make your own patterns, or to learn to use any design software. If this is what you are looking for I recommend Chopin's "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Designers", or "Digital Textile Design" by Bowles and Isaac.
So overall, a nice book to flip through if you want to get inspiration for your own designs, but by no means an essential to add to the library.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
OK needs CD or DVD to best enjoy.
21 Jun 2009
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See title...Says it all. This topic was flat without the aid of some CD or DVD to bring out the topic's modernity.
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