Digital Design for Custom Textiles

Name: Digital Design for Custom Textiles
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138084179
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Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film

By Amber Marisa Cook

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Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide designed to teach creating custom textile patterns specifically for performing arts productions. The book emphasises storytelling through design, using both hand and digital techniques. It includes methods for designing patterns, appliqués, and unique textures, alongside examples of custom textiles like various pattern repeats, digital embroidery, and cut-and-sew textiles. Readers benefit from full-colour, step-by-step instructions, practice exercises, production timelines, and a glossary of textiles and patterns.
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Ideal for students and design professionals in the performing arts aiming to integrate digital media into textile design. Also suitable for beginners interested in creating personalised, narrative-driven fabrics for stage and film.

Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide for creating custom textile patterns for performing arts production, with an emphasis on storytelling through design using hand and digital design techniques.

Description

Methods of designing patterns, appliqués, and unique textures for custom textiles.
Custom textile examples including various styles of pattern repeats, digital embroidery, and cut and sew textiles.
Full-colour, step-by-step instructions and practice exercises.
Production timelines.
A textiles and patterns glossary.

Digital Design for Custom Textiles will allow students and design professionals to embrace digital media to enhance their work, apply digital alternatives to find the perfect fabrics and embellishments, and create more meaningful and personalised designs for the stage.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138084179

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 December 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 109 Halftones, color; 109 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 156

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Amber Marisa Cook Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Amber Marisa Cook is a costume and scenic designer whose work has appeared in regional and academic theatres across the United States, including Off Broadway. Currently Assistant Professor of Costume Design for the Conservatory at Southeast Missouri State University, Amber is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and an alumna of The University of Michigan-Flint and Michigan State University. To find out more about Amber's work, please visit www.ambermcookdesign.com.