Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System

Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System
Author: Herman J. Hansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1889
Genre: CRAFTS & HOBBIES
ISBN:

Helping amateur and professional tailors alike, €Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System implements "ideas that have never been heard or thought of before" to create a series of patterns for the most stylish and easy-to-make men's frock coats.

Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System

Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System
Author: H. J. Hansen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780267509690

Excerpt from Hansen's Seamless and Artistic Frock Coat System: Method Which Is Clear, Simple and Complete and Its 'Nvolving Ideas Have Never Been Heard or Thought of Before; A Work Which Has Been by Careful Study and Practice Successful; Elaborated For Normal Form take out 1; inch (v), one-eighth Breast distance from 2. Take out - 3 inch (v) under the arm running up to Z. For extreme hollow Waist, say if you measure a form 315 Breast and 30 Waist, which is 2 inches out of proportion. In a case of this kind, take out good 5, inch more at front (v), the same amount at (v) run ning up to Z, and at natural Waist at D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Patternmaking History and Theory

Patternmaking History and Theory
Author: Jennifer Grayer Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350062650

Fashion design is increasingly gaining attention as an important form of cultural expression. However, scholarship has largely focused on specific designers and their finished products. This collection reveals the crucial foundational art and craft of patternmaking design, with essays that explore the practice in specific historical and cultural contexts. Probing the theoretical underpinnings that inform patternmaking, Patternmaking History and Theory interrogates topics that span cultures and time periods, ranging from high fashion to home sewing. Taking the reader from women's making and mending for victory during World War Two, to Jamaican dress history and today's complex 3D pattern cutting software, the book examines the creative aspect of a culturally rich skill. Beautifully illustrated and rooted in original research, Patternmaking History and Theory brings together a group of leading international scholars to provide a range of perspectives on a key but often overlooked aspect of design.

Speculative Everything

Speculative Everything
Author: Anthony Dunne
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262019841

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.

To Life!

To Life!
Author: Linda Weintraub
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520273613

This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Fashion Myths

Fashion Myths
Author: Roman Meinhold
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839424372

Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such »meta-goods« (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, ideals and desires such as values and symbols of social recognition, beautification and rejuvenation. Although the reference to such meta-goods is obvious to some consumers, their rootedness in philosophical theories of human nature is less apparent, even for the marketers and advertisers themselves. This book is of special interest for researchers and students in the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Marketing, Advertising, Fashion, Cultural Critique, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, and for anyone interested in the ways in which fashion operates.

A Century of Artists Books

A Century of Artists Books
Author: Riva Castleman
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780810961814

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0316125687

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called "hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving" (Washington Post).