This is a unique and beautiful resource for designers, and anyone interested in pattern and/or folding techniques. There is enough inspiration in this book to last, and to keep returning to. You will be interested in the designs in paper as you would make them to experiment.
Complete Pleats 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....
Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats. The book includes a DVD featuring 23 videos of pleating techniques.
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.
This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding, and crumpling.
Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design.
The book provides a one-stop source for novelty promotional materials, many appearing in print for the first time.
This concise book, with more than 300 photos of pleated, high-fashion creations and practical diagrams to follow, offers the basics needed to understand and use fabric pleating successfully.
Introducing techniques for making pop-ups from one sheet of card, the third title in this series on paper engineering takes folding techniques into the third dimension.
By exploring form through material play, as fashion designers do with draping fabric over a body, this book expands on approaches to architecture that consider form, structure, skin and enclosure as separate steps.
This book will show you inspirational ways in which paper can be used to create textured and relief surfaces.