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Giving Feedback to Subordinates
Author Dana McDonald-Mann , Raoul Buron
Providing specific information about performance is key to developing the people who report to you. This guidebook tells you how to give your subordinates effective feedback so they can work more effectively, develop new skills, and grow professionally. ....
Release Date 1999/05 -
Author Larry Cor , Jack Foster
How to Get Ideas shows you--no matter your age or skill, your job or training--how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier. You'll learn to condition your mind to become "idea-prone," utilize your sense of humor, develop your curiosity, visualize your go....
Release Date 2007/06 -
“Made in China”: The Ultimate Warning Label
Author Peter Navarro
This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.A matter of life or death: why you can’t trust the safety of any product that’s be....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Bethan Morris
A comprehensive, visually-led overview that covers all areas of fashion drawing, presentation, and illustration, Fashion Illustrator both teaches students how to draw the fashion figure and provides an extended showcase of established and emerging illustrators.A tec....
Release Date 2010/02 -
1000 Ideas by 100 Fashion Designers
Author Carolina Cerimedo
Fashion isn’t art. The latter can just be admired, while the first needs to be sold. How do designers create constant objects of desire? In this book, 100 designers give 1000 tips on what it takes to be a great fashion designer.
Release Date 2010/04 -
Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion
Author Basia Szkutnicka
Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple and straightforward step-by-step method, explained for those who wish to use Adobe Illustrator as well as for those who prefer to draw by hand.The second part of t....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Author Chidy Wayne
Ambiguous, sensual, coquette, and suggestive: the one thousand fashion drawing poses in this book are a deep journey into the wealth of possibilities for illustrating male and female bodies, and designers’ capacity to transmit sensations with an ever so slight flick....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Advanced Fashion Drawing, Lifestyle Illustration
Author Bil Donovan
Advanced Fashion Drawing is a practical book showing not only how to draw the figure but also how to illustrate it in today's fashion and lifestyle market.Designed specifically for those interested in illustrating fashion and lifestyle commercially, Bil Donovan dem....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Author Harriet Posner
Marketing and fashion branding inform many of the strategic and creative decisions involved in fashion design and product development. Marketing is a vital component of the industry supply chain, and an understanding of its importance and role is essential for those....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers
Author Fábio Sasso
Brazilian designer Fábio Sasso, who has wildly popular design blog Abduzeedo, has created the definitive guide to design. This book features interviews with designers and offers tutorials on various design styles, an extension of what he does with his site abduzeedo....
Release Date 2011/05 -
John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Amazing Creativity
Author John Adair
The final instalment in a new series offering straightforward, practical wisdom from a top business guruJohn Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Amazing Creativity is the second title in a new series of titles from the noted business expert. Focused on concise, practica....
Release Date 2011/08 -
John Adair's: 100 Greatest Ideas for Being a Brilliant Manager
Author John Adair
The first installment in a new series offering straightforward, practical wisdom from a top business guruJohn Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management is the first in a new series of titles from the noted business expert. Focused on concise, practical, a....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Lynda Grose , Kate Fletcher
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labor a....
Release Date 2012/04 -
How to Set up & Run a Fashion Label, 2nd Edition
Author To Meadows
No matter how talented you are as a designer, if you are going to run a successful fashion label you also need to know about business—from marketing and PR to manufacturing your collection, and where to find the money to finance it all. In How to Set Up and Run a F....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Steven Thomas Miller
Drawing Fashion Accessories is a practical guide to illustrating footwear, millinery, bags and purses, cosmetic products, and jewelry, offering a unique resource for students and professional fashion illustrators alike. Beginning with a discussion of the media avail....
Release Date 2012/10 -
New Icons of Fashion Illustration
Author Tony Glenville
Fashion illustration is and always has been about far more than pretty drawings of pretty dresses. This lavish celebration of today’s leading artists in the field showcases the timeless craft and amazing diversity that characterize the genre. From David Downton to ....
Release Date 2013/03 -
The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book
Author Laura Volpintesta , Jay Calderin
An essential primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book takes the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This valuable handbook contain....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Author Rana Florida
The 7 Key Principles to achieving YOUR business and life goalsWhat could a graffiti artist, eminent neurologist, star athlete, celebrity chef, fashion designer, rocket scientist, and Grammy Award–winning musician possibly have in common?In this groundbreaking new bo....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Style Bible: What to Wear to Work
Author Lauren A. Rothman
First impressions (and second ones!) count, whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry, she addresses the basics of ....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Safety Stock Planning for a Hong Kong Fashion Retailer
Author Matthew J. Drake
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to optimize safety stock levels for a fashion company, where consumer demand is exceptionally hard to forecast, and inventory planning is extremely difficult. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges fac....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Kevin Duncan
Coming up with ideas on your own can be hard. Doing it in brainstorms can be even harder. Following the success of The Diagrams Book, The Ideas Book explains 1) how to tackle tricky issues, 2) how to use inspirational techniques to generate smart ideas, and 3) how t....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Author Caroline Le Bon
Fashion is everywhere! It transcends domains and applies to almost any kind of product (e.g., apparel, cars, digital devices, food, literature, travel, music, house decoration and personal wellness). Fashion greatly influences public interest, media coverage, and pr....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Zhiying Wang , Wei Shi , Mingche Lai , Libo Huang , Sheng Ma
Networks-on-Chip: From Implementations to Programming Paradigms provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of the whole NoC design space in a coherent and uniform fashion, from low-level router, buffer and topology implementations, to routing and flow control sch....
Release Date 2014/12 -
The Art of Fashion Illustration
Author Somer Flaherty Tejwani
The ultimate guide to fashion sketching with more than 250 beautiful illustrations from the international community's masters of illustration and rising stars. Includes tear out sheets to practice your own fashion illustration.
Release Date 2014/12 -
Always In Fashion: From Clerk to CEO -- Lessons for Success in Business and in Life
Author Mark Weber
An exclusive guided tour of the fashion industry--from the inside upMark Weber is the ultimate fashion insider. Starting his career as a clerk in a clothing store, he worked his way up to the "big time" in New York City, becoming CEO of Phillips-VanHeusen (PVH)/Calv....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Fashioning Data: A 2015 Update
Author Liza Kindred
While many dismiss the fashion industry as frivolous, it's a very big, demanding, and profitable business—projected to create $3.75 trillion in revenues in 2016. Today's fashion industry has embraced big data analytics in every part of the product lifecycle. In t....
Release Date 2015/09