featured books at Whitehouse - August 2009

Visual Merchandising 5 / from the editors of VM+SD magazine

Visual presentation of merchandise has expanded beyond traditional forms in stores and windows and into new businesses. Merchandise presented in an attention grabbing manner appropriate to the clientele maximizes a store’s sales potential. This collection features the best of those presentations, including apparel, accessories, electronics, specialty items, food and restaurants, seasonal and Christmas windows in New York and more.

VM+SD has reported on store design and retail display since its founding in 1922 as DISPLAY WORLD. VM+SD is the leading industry magazine for visual merchandisers, store planners, architects, designers, general contractors and anyone responsible for interior design, merchandise presentation or retail corporate identity.

2007, Visual merchandising, 5 ST Media Group International, Cincinnati, Ohio

Main collection – 659.1 VIS

How to photograph absolutely everything : successful pictures from your digital camera

Whatever you want to photograph discover how to get it right, every time.
Children, holidays, still life, parties, gardens, pets, landscapes, buildings, close-ups, nature, weddings, babies, portraits, panoramas, sport, cities, abstracts, wildlife, nudes, sunsets, flowers.

Ang, Tom 2007, How to photograph absolutely everything : successful pictures from your digital camera, Dorling Kindersley, New York

Main collection – 778 ANG

Style, naturally : the savvy guide to sustainable fashion and beauty

Style meets substance in this lavishly illustrated survey of the world’s best sustainable fashion and beauty.

Summer Rayne Oakes, fashion model, eco advocate, and resident export on Treehugger.com and the Discovery Network’s Planet Green, poured her vast industry knowledge into this one-stop resource. With more than 500 photographs, tons of resources, a glossary of useful terms, and tips and stories from the hottest trendsetters, Style, Naturally is the ultimate fashion and beauty bible for women who want to feel good about looking good.

Oakes, Summer Rayne 2008, Style, naturally: the savvy shopping guide to sustainable fashion and beauty, Chronicle Books, San Francisco

Main collection – 391 OAK

The eco-design handbook : a complete sourcebook for the home and office

A complete guide to beautifully conceived, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly furniture and objects for everyday use.

-       570 detailed product listings

-       125 specially selected materials

-       Information on hundreds of designers, manufactures and green organizations

Objects for Living, Objects for Working, Materials, Resources.

The essential sourcebook for anyone interested in design and the sustainability of our environment.
With over 850 colour illustrations.

Fuad-Luke, Alastair 2004, The eco-design handbook: a complete sourcebook for the home and office, Thames & Hudson, London

Main collection – 745.4 FUA

Illustrating fashion

The guide to an essential skill for every fashion student. In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that you need to know in order to produce competent and visually exciting illustrations. It is suitable both for course use and self teaching, and shows you how to create lively fashion illustrations of men, women and children.

Examples of the media available and different drawing techniques are clearly presented, with detailed explanations of how to represent fabrics, create and use templates and stencils, and make working drawings. Many examples are included from contemporary designers, using both traditional drawing techniques and Computer Aided Design.

This new edition has been thoroughly updated, covering today’s software-based techniques, and now features full-colour illustrations throughout the book. Many new topics are included: drawing hands and feet, drawing different radical types of heads, producing clear specification drawings, and illustrating for specialist areas such as lingerie and accessories.

McKelvey, Kathryn & Munslow, Janine 2007, Illustrating fashion, Blackwell Pub, Ames, Iowa

Main collection – 741.672 MCK