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Adobe PhotoShop for Textile Design
Author:
Frederick Chipkin
Pub. Date: August 2001

Adobe PhotoShop is the most widely used design software in the world today. This book puts all the techniques for developing and creating color and design at your fingertips. It will enable designers to accomplish all the essential tasks of textile design. This book will guide the reader through step by step techniques for creating color combinations, repeats, color reduction of a tonal (watercolor) design and simple woven effects. Readers will also learn how to use layers to create quick color combinations. There is a CD included with the book that contains color charts and practice images.


AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning: For Release 14

Author:
Beverly L. Kirkpatrick,James M. Kirkpatrick
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: July 1998


A course text introducing the graphics program that has become to interior design what a hammer is to carpentry. Explains how to draw with AutoCAD, work in two and three dimensions, and special topics. Uses Program Release 14. Offers a prompt-response format for each new command, and exercises drawn from the fields the students are preparing for. Includes a glossary without pronunciation.




AutoCAD for the Apparel Industry

Author: Phyllis Bell Miller
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: January 1994


CAD/Cam in Clothing and Textiles

Author:
Stephen Gray
Format:
Hardcover, 200pp.
Pub. Date: December  1998


CAD/CAM in clothing and textiles offers the reader an insight into the justification for purchasing the technology along with a host of practical advice for integrating it into corporate activity. It includes a "Do it yourself" consultancy guide along with indicators of true cost of purchase, maintenance and exploitation of the systems. The author believes in the use of CAD/CAM systems as an integral part of any company's activity and he describes both technical and human issues. In looking to the future he indicates the increasing use of body scanners and internet technology as new ways of collecting data for apparel manufacture. The ways in which these systems interact with CAD/CAM are described so that investment can be made with clear future opportunities in mind.


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CAD for Fashion Design

Format:
Paperback, 1st ed.
Pub. Date: October  1996


This book is an attempt to offer a picture of some of the technological changes that have emerged in the fashion world and to provide students with a way of integrating this technology with the process of designing clothes. It is also an attempt to provide this information in a nontechnical way. Includes 3 1/2 inch diskette (approximately 5MB of available memory is required to use the disk.)





CAD in Clothing and Textiles: A Collection of Expert Views

Author:
Winifred Aldrich (Editor)
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: January 1994


Designing Interiors Using AutoCAD

Author: Tom Houser
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: May 1997


This highly practical guide shows how to use AutoCAD Release 13 to successfully design all types of residential and commercial spaces, as well as create professional looking presentation drawings that fully convey the function of a design. From space programming to facilities management, the book demonstrates the effective use of AutoCAd throughout the life of a project.



Digital Graphics for Architecture and Interior Visualization

Author: Wei Dong,Kathleen Gibson
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: July 1998


Explains how architects and interior designers can use computer- aided design techniques and tools throughout the design process, helping them and their clients visualize built environments, explore alternative ideas, and revise design solutions before construction begins. Integrates five popular software packages. Suitable as a college text or a resource for professionals. The CD-ROM tutorial exercises for a number of skills. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.





Grading for the Fashion Industry with Children's Wear and Men's Wear:

Author: Martin M. Shoben, Patrick S. Taylor
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date: January 1990


Managing AutoCAD in the Design Firm: A Manual for Architects and Interior Designers

Author: Karen A. Vagts
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: February 1996


This is an essential reference for architects, interior designers, project managers, and other members of the architecture/interior design community who use AutoCAD to produce design and construction drawings, specifications, and related documents. Karen A. Vagts demonstrates, step-by-step, how to incorporate AutoCAD effectively and profitably into the overall design process.

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