Summer support sessions for Dissertation!

Are you second year student? Have you been given your dissertation assignment brief? Not sure where to start?

Don't worry!

The Study Zone and Library are running dissertation support sessions this summer, in July and August, to help you feel prepared to do your dissertation research project.

A History of Screen Printing.

We have received a lovely donation of 'A History of Screen Printing' by Guido Lengwiler .

This is a comprehensive guide to the history of screen printing, and has some wonderful examples of screen printed work, from advertising and mass production, to recreation of art works.

You can find it at 764 LEN

Beautiful Interiors!

The Library has purchased a number of beautiful new interior design. Whether you are an Interior Decoration student, renovating, or just looking for a little inspiration - pop in to the library and take a look at our new titles.


Urban jungle : Living and styling with plants.
Igor Josifovic, Judith de Graaff. (2016)
747.98 JOS

'Urban Jungle' is a source of inspiration, ideas and a manual for all of those who want to 
bring more plants into their home. It guides the reader through different 'green' homes in five European countries and shows how beautiful, unique, creative and even artistic living with plants can be.

Pierre Frey Inspiring Interiors : French Tradition of Luxury 

Serge Gleizes ; photography by Philippe Garcia ; edited by Caroline Levesque.(2015) 

747.0944 FRE

Since 1935, the Parisian company Pierre Frey has designed and manufactured some of the most coveted textiles and wallpaper in the world. A member of the prestigious Comité Colbert, an association of 78 French luxury houses, Pierre Frey is an ambassador of French taste. This lavish new book celebrates a family-owned company that has flourished by preserving centuriesold crafts and techniques to both reproduce period textiles and design eclectic, contemporary creations. Pierre Frey fabrics, rugs, wall coverings, upholstered furniture, and home accessories appear here in rooms created by some of today's best-known interior designers. The company's proud tradition of quality and excellence draws from the past and always looks toward the future.

Styled Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves

Emily Henderson, photographs by David Tsay.(2015)

747 HEN

    


                                                                                                                                                                                                     

The stylist's genius is in making a space look inviting, personal, and unique. She often does this in just minutes, meaning that a small investment pays off with big rewards. Emily Henderson now draws the curtain on the interior stylist's secrets. This playful yet practical book features 1,000 highly visual, highly enviable, eminently doable ideas--more than any other decor book on the market. First up, Emily walks readers through her Stylist's Toolkit, which helps them discover their signature styles, talk like a stylist, and learn the styling process in 10 easy steps. Then, Emily takes us inside 25 homes, grouped into rooms and themes for the reader, revealing how to get your place ready for its close-up--and your long-term happiness--without it looking contrived. With advice on mixing patterns, visually balancing a space, and scoring great deals on furniture and accents, this is an irresistible inspiration resource for the interior decor enthusiast, as well as anyone looking for help styling a home.

Creative Arts Person of the Month - May 2017 - Contemporary Painter Mark Grotjahn

As an new initiative, each month the Library is going to shine a light on individuals who have made an impact on the creative world in which they work; this will include creative people past and present and from all walks of the creative arts, reflecting the wide range of disciplines studied at Plymouth College of Art.

This month's Creative is Contemporary Painter: -

Mark Grotjahn 

The Library recently purchased the exhibition catalogue of Mark Grotjahn’s Circus Circus, produced on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstverein Freiburg, May 16 - July 27, 2014.

Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) is an American painter best known for abstract work and bold geometric paintings. He lives and works in Los Angeles) and ranks among the best-known American painters of his generation.

His heterogeneous oeuvre includes depictions of anthropomorphic plants and masks as well as colorful abstract compositions in oil or wax crayon. After 1997, he also produced numerous monochromes. Grotjahn's "Butterfly" and "Face" paintings are animated by a dynamic dialectic between gestural representation and formalist structure.

Mark Grotjahn : Circus Circus

709.2 GRO

The lavishly designed book "Circus Circus" presents a selection of paintings from Grotjahn's new "Circus" series as well as a "Mask" bronze sculpture. The ambitious polychromatic works combine the geometric rigor of the "Butterfly" series with the gestural facture of the "Face" pictures, in which primary facial symbols emerge from flowing streams of color.

The essays by Caroline Kading and Mark Prince analyze the "Circus" series in light of the painterly traditions on which it draws and examine its place in Grotjahn's oeuvre.

Other books held in the Library which discuss Grotjahn work include

The forever now : contemporary painting in an atemporal world

759.07 HOP

xhich was published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art.

Timeless Painting presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic. A temporarily or timelessness manifests itself in painting as an ahistoric free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that explores the impact of this cultural condition on contemporary painting, this publication features work by an international roster of artists including Joe Bradley, Kerstin Bratsch, Matt Connors, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens and Josh Smith, among others. An overview essay by curator Laura Hoptman is divided into thematic chapters that explore topics such as re-animation and reenactment, recontextualization, Zombie painting, and the concomitant Frankenstein approach, which describes a process of stitching together pieces of the history of painting to create a work of art that would be dead but for its juxtaposed parts, all working in association with one another to propel the work into life.

Grotjahn is also included in

Art Now Volume 2 : The new directory to 136 international contemporary artists

709.22 GRO

Unless you regularly trawl the Chelsea galleries, hang out at the Tate Modern, peruse the Pompidou, attend every Biennale, and religiously read Artforum, you could likely use a primer on the art scene in the world today. Fortunately we've created our second Art Now volume to keep art fans abreast of the latest trends and hottest names. Not only will you discover the most important artists in the international art market, you'll also learn how the art scene has changed dramatically in recent years-notably with a return to figurative painting and an increase in political topics. Featuring over 135 artists in A-Z entries, plus a special section about gallery representation and current market prices, Art Now Vol. 2 is the guide to what's happening and who's who in contemporary art. A-Z artist entries include: short biography, exhibition history and bibliographical information, images of important recent work. Bonus illustrated appendix features:names and contact information for the galleries representing the artists featured, primary market prices, the five best auction results. 

Designers Delight - Design Books to live by

The Library has been busy updating it's collection of Interior Design Books.

Here are a few new arrivals. 

Design for sustainability : a sourcebook of integrated, eco-logical solutions by Janis Birkeland.

363.7 BIR

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.

Drawing for interior designers by Gilles Ronin

729.028 RON

This book is aimed at helping budding interior designers learn how to draw professional looking interior designs. It is accessible, beautifully illustrated and practical. Guidance is given on drawing perspective, floor plans, drawing furniture and renditions of rooms. Filled with sketches and drawings, this is the ideal guide to producing successful drawings of interior designs.

Perspective sketching : freehand and digital drawing techniques for artists & designers by Jorge Paricio.

742 PAR

Go beyond the horizon with Perspective Sketching. This book offers a command of the basic principles of perspective that is essential to creating dynamic, plausible compositions. With a user-friendly approach, this step-by-step guide will help you master the basics like scale drawing, contour line drawing, linear perspective, tone and texture, and more. Freehand skills like intuitive perspective and concept sketching help you to deepen your technique. Artist and designer Jorge Paricio also includes lessons on working with 3-D modeling in SketchUp and painting in Photoshop and provides a full chapter in blending traditional hand skills with digital media. This effective technique that draws on a broad sense of artistic qualities, coupled with mastering perspective, creates a sketching book unlike any other.

The design book : 1000 new designs for the home and where to find them Jennifer Hudson.

747 HUD

"The Design Book" brings together the best in contemporary design for the home, presenting a huge range of striking new products: tables and chairs, sofas and beds, storage, kitchens and bathrooms, tableware, textiles and surfaces, lighting, electronics and more. Works by the finest international talents, including Jaime Hayon, Javier Mariscal, Thomas Heatherwick, Shin and Tomoko Azumi, Sebastian Bergne, Jurgen Bey, Tord Boontje, Piet Hein Eek, Fernando and Humberto Campana and Mathieu Lehanneur, are featured. In-depth interviews with twelve key designers explore pivotal projects and approaches to design. Web addresses of designers and manufacturers are given for every object, along with full captions and colour illustrations, making every design easy to source.

Designers on design by Terence Conran and Max Fraser.

745.0922 CON

Who is designing the classics of tomorrow? Designers on Design answers these questions and discusses the elements that set great designers apart. A beautifully illustrated guide to today's cutting-edge furniture and product designers, it features interviews with each of the designers asking questions such as, "What product do you wish you had designed?", "What was your big break?", "What influences your work?" and "What's the greatest challenge you face in your work?". A potted biography introduces each designer and beautiful photographs illustrate not only the designer's own work, but also the influences that inspire them and sketches or their ideas in progress. The book places each designer in historical context and an illustrated time-line running from the 1920s to the present day - and even looking into the future - forms part of the introduction and shows that the modernism of 100 years ago is still influential today.

Metric handbook : planning and design data. edited by Pamela Buxton.

720.28 BUX

* Significantly updated in reference to the latest construction standards and evolving building types * Many chapters revised including housing, transport, offices, libraries and hotels * New chapter on flood-aware design * Sustainable design integrated into chapters throughout * Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers - this book belongs in every design studio and architecture school library The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design information for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer needs to be aware of. As well as building types, the Metric Handbook deals with broader aspects of design such as materials, acoustics and lighting, and general design data on human dimensions and space requirements. The Metric Handbook provides an invaluable resource for solving everyday design and planning problems.

Designing patterns : for decoration, fashion and graphics by Lotta Külhorn.

745.44 KUH

In this practical handbook, Scandinavian expert Lotta Kühlhorn explains the ins and outs of how to design patterns for everything from wallpaper to tea services. The included CD features templates for experimentation by beginners and professionals alike. From whom should we learn how to design timelessly elegant patterns if not from a Swede? Lotta Kühlhorn is one of Scandinavia s most prominent pattern designers and has created work for a wide range of products from book covers to coffee sets. In fact, without knowing it, most of us have probably already come across Kühlhorn s designs. Scandinavia is firmly established as a hub for outstanding interior design, fashion, and décor. Although Nordic furniture is generally minimalistic and functional, the region s textiles, ceramics, and wallpapers are coveted for their rich and colorful patterns. In this practical handbook, Lotta Kühlhorn offers expert advice to those designing patterns with the help of numerous photographs and personal anecdotes. She explains how she works, what inspires her, and why edges are just as important as middles. With an impressive thoroughness, Kühlhorn shows readers how to use the most common techniques for creating patterns and explores colors, forms, and the best ways to combine them. From encompassing conceptual questions to intricate details, this book elucidates all of the facets involved in designing patterns that can be used for fields such as textile, paper, and product design. It features high-quality sample pages that give readers a true sense for ornament and forms based on mathematics. In addition, Designing Patterns includes suggestions for ten projects to get you started on your own work. The templates for these projects can be found on the CD-ROM that accompanies the book.

Furniture design : an introduction to development, materials and manufacturing by Stuart Lawson.

749 LAW

Furniture Design is a comprehensive guide and resource for students and furniture designers. As well as discussing pioneering contemporary and historical designs, it also provides substantive answers to designers questions about function, materials, manufacture and sustainability, integrating guidance on all of these subjects particularly material and manufacturing properties, in one accessible and structured volume. Many leading contemporary furniture designers from around the world are included, with case studies carefully selected to highlight the importance of both material and manufacture-led design processes. The book is also intended to provide an insight into furniture design for those considering a university education in product and industrial design.

Materials and interior design by Rachael Brown and Lorraine Farrelly.

747 BRO

The choice of materials is critical to the success of an interior. This book examines every aspect of the use of materials in interior design, from initial concept and selection to visual representation and practical application. Following a brief introduction, the first five sections offer historical context and detailed guidance on selection, application, representation, communication, and sources, while the sixth and final section features case studies by international interior designers. The book includes useful step-by-step sequences, information on properties and sustainability, and a list of resources, online archives and sample libraries. It is an invaluable practical and inspirational guide for interior design students.

Complete pleats: pleating techniques for fashion, architecture and design - Paul Jackson.

746 JAC

Paul Jackson's major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market. It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design. Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats.

The following Class Marks show areas to browse through the library shelves for books useful for Interior Design Students.

Design theory

§  701.85 Colour science

§  711 Urban design

§  720.1 Architectural theory

§  720.47 Sustainable architecture

§  745.2047 Sustainable design

§  747.01 Interior design theory

Professional skills

§  001.4 Research methodologies and study skills

§  720.284 Architectural drawing

§  747.022 Interior drawing

§  747.068 Professional practice

§  747.072 Research techniques

International interiors

§  747.21 American

§  747.22 English

§  747.229 Scottish

§  747.24 French

§  747.25 Italian

§  747.26 Spanish

§  747.28 Scandinavian

§  747.295 Asian

§  747.296 African

§  747.297 Mexican

§  747.299 Australian

Architectural elements

§  690.1 Architectural details

§  690.1822 Doors

§  690.1823 Windows

§  690.1832 Stairs

Interior elements

§  746.7 Rugs and carpets

§  746.95 Soft furnishings

§  747.3 Wallpaper and paint

§  747.5 Fabrics

§  747.92 Lighting

§  747.94 Colour

§  747.98 Plants

§  749.2 Furniture

§  749.32 Chairs

Type of space

§  725.21 Retail

§  725.23 Corporate

§  725.71 Cafes, bars and restaurants

§  725.5 Healthcare

§  725.73 Spas and salons

§  727.1 Schools

§  727.8 Libraries

§  728.5 Hotels

§  747.1 Small spaces

§  747.3 Home office

§  747.75 Dining rooms

§  747.77 Bedrooms

§  747.78 Bathrooms

§  747.79 Kitchens

Designers

§  720.92 Architects A-Z

§  746.092 Textile designers A-Z

§  747.092 Interior designers A-Z

§  749.2092 Furniture designers A-Z

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