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The Great Big Book of Designs

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781844484430

A fantastic source for anyone seeking inspiration for craft projects, collages, paintings, textile or ceramic designs, cardmaking ideas and more. These clearly drawn, specially commissioned black and white illustrations include decorative motifs, beautiful borders, patterns, images and stylised frames. Designs can be used as they are presented on the pages, or elements can be selected and combined to create new forms, and they can be reproduced to any scale to enhance different surfaces including paper, wood, card and fabric.

Price: £14.99

The Complete Pattern Library
by Ian Hamlin

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Hardback

This is a book plus CD package, containing 100 patterns (copyright - free) for use by all craftspeople. The patterns are divided into various categories: geometric, small-scale repeats, florals etc. and each comes with a note of its origins and three colourways, resulting in an invaluable resource for everything from textiles to stencilling, stained glass and websites. The CD is suitable for both CDs and Macs and a wide variety of software packages.
Price: £16.99

Inspirational Objects
by Alison Milner

Publisher A & C Black
Edition

240 Objects - ranging from manufactured or handmade to natural items - have been beautifully photographed and cleverly arranged to provoke the viewer into a host of different questions: Why do I like it? Where does it come from? What is it for? What is it made from? While this book inspires the reader to respond to the elegant forms of often - overlooked everyday objects, the accompanying text explains the author's own reactions to and interpretations of each object in terms of function, evolution and representation, context and symbolism.
Price: £13.99

Sources of Inspiration for Ceramics and the Applied Arts
by Carolyn Genders

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

This book contains a wealth of images - of both natural and manmade objects - that will spark the imagination of all who see them. In this book the author shows how these images can be visually abstracted and then refined and developed to create beautiful patterns and designs. The result is a useful guide to how the creative process works and a glorious sourcebook of images.
Price: £19.99

300 Years of Industrial Design
by Adrian Heath, Ditte Heath & Aage Lund Jensen

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

This is a pictorial overview of the development of design and materials in the past 300 years, which have produced a wealth of innovative industrial design. Items such as the garden trug and bicycles, the Wedgwood teapot and milk bottles were all developed during these centuries and yet are still in use today. In this book, the authors look over this timespan and select examples of fine wood, glass, metal and ceramic designs on a decade by decade basis. They put each design into the context of the time it was developed and illustrate each item with scale drawings, photographs and catalogue entries from the period.
Price: £27.99

The Style of the Century
by Bevis Hillier & Kate McIntyre

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

The first edition of this book focused on the four main movements of Twentieth Century style between 1900 and 1980: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the 'Austerity Binge' of the Forties and Fifties, and the explosion of daring flamboyancy of the Sixties and Seventies. Now an account of the 1980s and 1990s completes this seamless survey of architecture, interiors, fashion, graphics and everyday objects which has long had a unique appeal for students, collectors and anyone interested in our abiding appetite for style.
Price: £15.99

I Colour Book: Abstract Designs

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

Colour it in psychedelic colours, in tasteful tones, in all shades of orange! But just colour it! Recapture the purest sense of creativity by colouring in the most beautiful abstract designs – from pseudo Jackson Pollock to retro patterns and colourful camouflage – provided by a leading textile designer. The design team, who work closely with Tate Modern in London, provide 24 postcards with six different designs to choose from. Great fun for all those looking for a burst of creative expression and useful for designers of all types who want to experiment with colour. The cards can be kept together in the book or detached, framed or posted to a friend.
Price: £7.99

I Colour Book: Designs from Nature

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

Colour it in psychedelic colours, in tasteful tones, in all shades of orange! But just colour it! Recapture the purest sense of creativity by colouring in the most beautiful figurative designs – flowers, birds, butterflies – provided by a leading textile designer. The design team, who work closely with Tate Modern in London, provide 24 postcards with six different designs to choose from. Great fun for all those looking for a burst of creative expression and useful for designers of all types who want to experiment with colour. The cards can be kept together in the book or detached, framed or posted to a friend.
Price: £7.99

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