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A stunning new collection of Tilda designs from talented designer Tone Finnanger. Homemade and Happy is a gorgeous collection of inspirational home accessories including quilts, cushions and decorative items to make Christmas even more special. Choose from a range of ornaments including gold-winged reindeer and sheep, round-eyed owls, plump pigs with flower applique detail, angels, stars and darling decorative cakes. The book also features pretty practical designs such as an irresistible patchwork quilt, classic pillow covers and a cup pin-cushion, all in Tone's unique range of fabulous fabrics. The projects are photographed in the author's own log cabin situated in the snowy mountains of Norway, and capture Tone's unique and distinctive style. The Tilda brand is renowned worldwide and sales of the series now has combined sales of over 100,000 copies worldwide. Tone Finnanger created the Tilda brand in 1999 when she was just 25 years old. It is now well known for its whimsical, comical and naive characters in the form of animals and dolls that is popular with crafters of all ages and abilities. Tone has written several books including Sew Pretty Homestyle, Sew Sunny Homestyle, Crafting Tilda's Friends, Tilda's Christmas Ideas, Tilda's Summer Ideas, Tilda's Studio and Tilda's Seaside Ideas. She lives in Norway.

This is a beautifully done book by tone Finnanger. I love her designs and wonderful sense of colors and patters she uses in her designs. I own some of her previous works and have enjoyed them all. She puts together easily understood instructions for her pattern designs and the beautiful photos of the completed works encourages me to make my own. I enjoyed this book very much.

Recreate memories of the seaside with simple sewing, papercraft, crochet and knitting projects using beautiful Tilda fabrics, yarn and embellishments. Be inspired by life at the beach and in the ocean to make gifts, toys and pretty accessories for your home. From adorable whales and fishing girl dolls to hanging mobiles, applique blankets and summer scarves, the designs will take you on a journey of the perfect seaside holiday.

Natsuno Hiraiwa is a graphic designer turned fashion designer, and brings a clean minimalist style to her innovatively constructed garments and accessories. Many of her signature vests, collars, and shrugs are cut from a single flat piece of cloth, then ingeniously draped and fastened around the body. Other pieces are artfully twisted and folded like origami, giving a unique shape to the resulting blouses, tops, and skirts. All her designs create the striking silhouettes that epitomize her fashion collections, and result in one-of-a-kind garments suitable for all ages.

Helps designers keep up with the latest web design trends. Features more than 600 examples of successful website designs. From Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com. Featuring more than 600 examples, this guide offers visual inspiration to web designers to help them see what others have done and how they can adapt those ideas to their own needs. This third volume in the popular Web Designer's Idea Book series offers the latest in today's themes, styles and trends in web design.

Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl is the first book to consider the controversial cover of the most notorious and acclaimed novel of the 20th century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. It pairs essays by well-known design critics with a rich gallery of 60 brand-new Lolita covers, commissioned by leading book designers especially for this project. Readers of both design and literature will gain an understanding of how the wildly influential novel has been represented (and misrepresented) in popular culture.

Create beautiful dolls and accessories for winter using the latest Tilda fabrics. From pretty skating angels in warm fur coats to chalet girls with cosy knitted jumpers, these new Tilda designs celebrate the winter season in style. Transform pentagons and hexagons into mini patchwork balls and tablemats, or make a quilt or cushion with beautiful Tilda fabrics. Hanging santas, paper angels and Christmas stockings are perfect festive decorations for your home, and there are adorable polar bears to delight the little ones!

This is a gorgeous collection of fresh, Spring-themed sewing projects using the latest Tilda fabrics and embellishments. You can choose from a stunning variety of sewing and papercraft designs, including bags, soft toys, fabric boxes and unique decorations. The colour palette used includes shades of red, pink, white, pale green, azure blue and cyan. The projects are accompanied by clear instructions, gorgeous photographs and colour illustrations.

Make the Web Work for You You know how to design. But you can increase your value as a designer in the marketplace by learning how to make that design function on the web. From informational sites to e-commerce portals to blogs to mobile apps, The Designer's Web Handbook helps any designer understand the full life cycle of a digital product: idea, design, production and maintenance. The best web designers create not only beautiful sites but also sites that function well — for both client and end user. Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the bestselling Web Designer's Idea Book, volumes 1 and 2, teaches you how to work with developers to build sites that balance aesthetics and usability, and to do it on time and on budget.

In this title, the projects combine simple patchwork and applique, felt and trim embellishments, and decorative stitchery. Each chapter has its own charming motifs and colour theme, and the projects cover a range of festive gifts and decorations. Designs are suitable for stitchers of all abilities, whatever time they have available, with each chapter offering designs that can be completed in either 3 hours, 2 days or a week.

With lessons that delve deeper into the elements covered in the first book, readers will learn to expand and fine tune their graffiti techniques. «Graff 2» covers 3D wildstyle, characters and objects, and letter manipulation, as well as a glossary of common graffiti terms not covered in the first book. Scape Martinez uses step-by-step demonstrations to instruct readers on using easy-to-access materials like paper and pens to more complex, legally-sanctioned wall pieces. This title features explanations on colour, composition and design, with 6 full-scale demonstrations that show the creation of a wall piece from start to finish.

Scrapbookers can never get enough inspiration. With more than 500 all-new layout designs, The Big Book of Scrapbook Pages is the ultimate idea gallery for every scrapbooker. Every reader will find the inspiration they're looking for. Including never-before-seen layouts from numerous contributors feature a wide variety of styles, from contemporary to classic, digital to traditional, one page to two, and everything in between. Plus, readers get ideas for scrapping all kinds of events, from daily routines and jobs, to faith and hobbies, travel and play, special relationships, holidays and seasons, and loads of pages with little ones. Finally, ideas for getting multiple designs from one layout and 50 sketches for the editors' favourite pages give readers everything they need to capture all their memories.

Beyond the 3,000 fresh, inspiring colour palettes, this book also includes 10 colour inspiration sections that feature photographs to show how to find new colour combinations in the reader's own world. The bonus DVD includes all the colour palettes from the book in formats that are easy to import into common design software (HTML, ASE, GIMP and Expression). This book will be much larger than Color Index and we'll be able to take advantage of that space to show more colour combinations and larger swatches of colour.

This is a seasonal collection of projects using the latest Tilda fabrics and embellishments. Choose from a stunning variety of sewing and papercraft designs, including bags, decorations, gifts, cards and soft toys. The colour palette used includes beautiful shades of red, pink, taupe, cream, turquoise and blue. Projects are accompanied by clear instructions, gorgeous photographs and colour illustrations.

A complete fashion school for drawing and painting fashion figures, garments, and accessories for all aspiring fashion illustrators and designers. Designed for newcomers and improvers, this book shows you how to construct the head and figure, compose for impact, and use all available media. Practical, interactive and beautiful, instruction will be via step exercises, hardworking fashion sketches and beautiful fashion illustrations.

For many designers, creating things by hand is a reaction to too much computer-based design. Since the first Fingerprint was published, ideas that were once on the fringe have begun to thrive in the mainstream. From typography and illustration to book-making and film titles, elements of handcraft have soaked into everyday life. Fingerprint No. 2 reflects the evolution of those ideas. In this second volume, you'll still find plenty of projects created entirely without the aid of computer technology. But you'll also discover how designers are beginning to incorporate the two aesthetics — handmade and digital &3151;in order to best communicate their message. A third, hybrid aesthetic is emerging, one that marries the technologies of the past and future into a vibrant, exciting present. Look inside to discover 133 projects and exclusive visual essays from leading designers, including Robynne Raye, Stefan Bucher and Christian Helms. These pieces of work prove that handmade elements are not only vital to excellent design, but often result in exceptional design. Listen for the pulse, which cannot be faked, forged, or falsified. Look for the finger print. It is the key to designs success.

The modern bride's key to creating a unique wedding — projects to make and wedding ideas for a day that's personalized, handcrafted and totally unique from the moment the wedding invitations are posted. This title shows how to make wedding invitations, wedding favours, jewellery, wedding decorations, wedding sweet treats, wedding centrepieces and wedding gifts. It is ideal for the novice crafter, with lots of clear step-by-step photography and explanation, plus tips for producing multiples such as wedding invitations. It covers a range of crafts vital for creating the perfect wedding, including paper crafts, sugarcrafts, beading and jewellery making. The necessary craft supplies are easily sourced from craft shops such as Michaels craft stores, Hobbycraft and arts and crafts stores on the high street and on-line.

This is a comprehensive guide for all artists who want to use photography to inspire and inform their work. It demonstrates the photographic skills required to use a camera as a sketchbook to gather information for your work. It takes you through the process of working from photographs, creating effective compositions and developing this to finished paintings.Six step demonstrations track a painting from initial photograph to finished artwork. This guide offers invaluable guidance on composing and painting images in watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencil and oil, making it perfect for artists of all skill levels.

An extensive motif library also provides templates for the designs presented, which are ideal for the beginner while more experienced glass painters will be challenged by higher-level designs. Tips for adapting the motifs to suit any project are also included.

Designers Daniel and Klaus Bellon have been photographing street typography around the world for more than 17 years. These images have served as an inspiration for their graphic design work and now they are sharing their collection in this unique book. These eclectic and sometimes humorous signs from the four corners of the worldaincluding the U.S., the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysiaaare a study in the universality of meaning in language. Fifteen original fonts inspired by the street type the authors love are also included on the accompanying CD.

Break into the comic-book industry — and stay in — with this user-friendly guide to understanding and creating comic books, as told by top working comic professionals. Readers discover in detail how comic books are made — from brainstorming, writing and editing to penciling, inking and colouring — as told by top professionals who offer real-world advice for breaking into and staying in the business. Readers will enjoy the in-depth interviews with respected industry insiders who've worked for such powerhouses as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image Comics, including: Mike Marts (X-men and Batman); Mark Waid (Kingdom Come, Spider-man, Flash and Irredeemable); Darick Robertson (Wolverine, Conan and Deadpool); Brian Haberlin (Witchblade and Spawn); Rodney Ramos (Batman and Wolverine); Chris Eliopoulos (X-men and, John Cerilli Marvel Digital Comics). This title also includes unprecedented interviews with Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and comics legend Stan Lee.

This is a festive collection of more than 20 tempting projects that are modern and stylish, but simple enough to bake during the busy Christmas season. Variety of projects give any excuse to bake, be it ornate Christmas cakes to impress, cookies to decorate the tree, or tasty nibbles and stocking fillers. It is packed with step-by-step instructions, beautifully illustrated techniques and professional tips from top designers to make it fun and easy for sugarcraft experts and baking beginners alike. With ideas for festive decorations, edible centrepieces and gifts for family and friends, each project looks amazing and, of course, tastes delicious.

Step into Tilda's studio with a collection of designs, projects and pretty photography inspired by the author's very own workroom and other favourite things... — Over 50 delightful new sewing designs include cushions, accessories, home decor, jewellery and bags. — Cute characters, such as giraffes, elephants and angels are perfect gifts for all ages. — Tilda's favourite shades of pink and red combine with splashes of teal, green and purple for a gorgeous fresh feel.

25 fabulous, wearable garments from only 8 simple patterns Sewists will learn how to make a closetful of comfortable and easy go-to garments without needing a library of separate patterns with Simple Modern Sewing. All you'll need to make 25 unique garments are the eight included basic sewing templates included. Shufu To Seikatsu Sha has designed each pattern to be easily adaptable with no-fuss sizing and clear fabric folding and cutting instructions, so it's simple to sew clothes that are perfect for you. Beginning sewing patterns are often boring or unappealing in favor of being easy to sew. These 25 patterns are just as approachable as traditional beginning sewing patterns, but also have the still style and modernity of more complex patterns. Once you've mastered a pattern, you can combine your creativity with the template provided to design a one-of-a-kind garment with different fabrics or added embellishments like a print lining or contrast-stitching. Sewers of all skill levels with love the freedom of making custom-cool clothes without all the fuss and hassle of traditional sewing patterns and customizations. Fill your wardrobe in no time with the easy to make and wear garments of Simple Modern Sewing.