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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Silent : Practices And Effective Strategies In Visual Merchandising - Bundle Book + Studio Access Card 69.91 GBP Energizing and bold, this major revision of Silent Selling: Best Practices and Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising, 6th Edition, invites students to embrace a big picture view of the retail design industry.They will study global events and innovations with current multimedia resources in neuroscience and business, hand-picked by author Judy Bell.Her pioneering work with color palettes and her look-compare-innovate process will pave the way to sales-driving strategies.Students will be equipped to face the future with real world wisdom from industry leaders, and will be encouraged to create their own signature style.New to This Edition-The book opens with wisdom from philosophers like Aristotle and psychologists like Eric Fromm along with four Creative Wizards, active in the retail design industry today, offering guidance and inspiration. -Two new features: Neuroscience Pop-Ups! explore the science behind visual merchandising and Designers' Pet Peeves examine common pitfalls in display designs. -Twelve new or revised international Design Gallery showcases, Shoptalk features, and Case Studies, with award-winning design firms and top retailers. -Introduction to today's elements of the metaverse employed in visual merchandising through artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics. -A system of Signage Hierarchy is introduced to provide a framework for strategically positioning signs in the retail store environment. -Over sixty new photographs present innovative concepts from around the globe. Silent Selling STUDIO-Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips-Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitionsInstructor Resources-Instructor's Guide with Test Bank provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom-PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Merchandising For Fashion 27.9 GBP Where do shoppers meet before heading out to browse the stores?Why might they go to a particular shop and not another?What first attracts them to a brand or garment? Visual merchandising is concerned with all these questions, spanning the relationship between consumer, environment, brand and product. As part of the Basics Fashion Management series, Bailey and Baker introduce the principles underpinning successful visual merchandising using examples from budget, mid-range and luxury brands.These real-world examples take the form of detailed case studies and interviews, providing hands-on advice from all levels of industry.This revised edition includes additional coverage of online visual merchandising, lighting techniques, mannequin dressing and integrating technology into displays.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Swipe, Scan, Shop : Interactive Visual Merchandising 27.59 GBP Successful fashion merchandising, branding and communication start with satisfyingly sensory and interactive shopping experiences.With Kate Schaefer’s beautifully illustrated and practical book, learn how retailers create these experiences to connect with shoppers, enhance the retail experience, and achieve brand loyalty. With company highlights from brands such as Amazon Go, FIT:MATCH and Sephora, Swipe, Scan, Shop shows how fashion retailers are embracing the omnichannel retail experience, by using virtual and augmented reality, beacon technologies and facial recognition, among others.As shoppers become more dependent on digital devices as part of their shopping experience, visual merchandisers are adapting by incorporating mobile tech to tell a story, alert shoppers of product locations and inventory levels, and allow for the customization of products and sharing with friends. With a companion website that includes resources and links to further information and videos discussed in the book, this practical guide shows how to inform, entice, and engage customers by incorporating social technology throughout the shopping experience.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Swipe, Scan, Shop : Interactive Visual Merchandising 82.8 GBP Successful fashion merchandising, branding and communication start with satisfyingly sensory and interactive shopping experiences.With Kate Schaefer's beautifully illustrated and practical book, learn how retailers create these experiences to connect with shoppers, enhance the retail experience, and achieve brand loyalty. With company highlights from brands such as Amazon Go, FIT:MATCH and Sephora, Swipe, Scan, Shop shows how fashion retailers are embracing the omnichannel retail experience, by using virtual and augmented reality, beacon technologies and facial recognition, among others.As shoppers become more dependent on digital devices as part of their shopping experience, visual merchandisers are adapting by incorporating mobile tech to tell a story, alert shoppers of product locations and inventory levels, and allow for the customization of products and sharing with friends. With a companion website that includes resources and links to further information and videos discussed in the book, this practical guide shows how to inform, entice, and engage customers by incorporating social technology throughout the shopping experience.

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A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas: 5 Books Collection Box Set - Fiction - Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 38.99 GBP Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses series is a captivating and thrilling fantasy saga that has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. The series is a mesmerising blend of romance, magic, and adventure and follows the journey of its main character, Feyre. This stunning paperback collection contains 5 books in the bestselling series. Check out our full collection of Sarah J. Maas books here. The first book in the series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, introduces us to Feyre, a young woman who is struggling to survive in a world ravaged by a magical war. When she kills a wolf in the woods, she is dragged to the magical kingdom of Prythian by Tamlin, a High Fae Lord. Feyre soon discovers that Prythian is a place of magic, wonder, and danger and that a dark and powerful force threatens to destroy it. As Feyre begins to learn about the world of the Fae, she finds herself drawn to Tamlin, despite the fact that he is not entirely human. As the two of them grow closer, they must face a host of challenges and dangers, including the return of the evil queen Amarantha, who has the power to destroy Prythian and all those who live in it. The second book in the series, A Court of Mist and Fury, picks up where the first book left off, with Feyre struggling to come to terms with the events that have transpired. In this book, Feyre must deal with the fallout of her actions and her changing relationship with Tamlin. She also meets Rhysand, a mysterious and powerful High Fae lord who has a dark reputation. As Feyre becomes embroiled in a complex web of politics and power struggles, she discovers that there are forces at work that threaten not only her life but the fate of all of Prythian. The third book in the series, A Court of Wings and Ruin, brings Feyre's journey to a dramatic and satisfying conclusion. As the final battle between the Fae and the evil King of Hybern looms, Feyre must use all of her strength, skill, and magic to fight for the ones she loves. Along the way, she must make difficult choices, forge alliances, and confront her deepest fears in order to save Prythian and all those who live in it. The A Court of Thorns and Roses series is a masterful blend of fantasy, romance, and adventure. Sarah J. Maas has created a rich and immersive world filled with memorable characters, complex political intrigues, and breathtaking magical battles. Feyre is a strong, compelling heroine, and her journey is one that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. The series explores themes of love, loyalty, sacrifice, and the true meaning of courage and will leave readers feeling moved, inspired, and satisfied. The A Court of Thorns and Roses series has become a phenomenon, with millions of copies sold worldwide and a devoted fan base that spans generations. The series has been praised for its complex characters, lush world-building, and compelling storylines. It has been called a "game-changer" in the world of fantasy fiction and is a...

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 8 Books Collection Box Set - Age 12+ - Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 59.99 GBP Titles In This Set: 1. Kingdom of Ash 2. Tower of Dawn 3. Empire of Storms 4. Queen of Shadows 5. Heir of Fire 6. Crown of Midnight 7. Throne of Glass 8. The Assassin's Blade Description: Kingdom of Ash Aelin Galathynius's journey from slave to assassin to queen reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world . She has risked everything to save her people - but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will to endure the months of torture inflicted upon her. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unravelling with each passing day. With Aelin imprisoned, Aedion and Lysandra are the last line of defence keeping Terrasen from utter destruction. But even the many allies they've gathered to battle Erawan's hordes might not be enough to save the kingdom. Scattered throughout the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian must forge their own paths to meet their destinies. And across the sea Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen - before she is lost to him. Some bonds will deepen and others be severed forever, but as the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight if they are to find salvation - and a better world. Tower of Dawn Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since Aelin shattered the glass castle, since Chaol's men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. Now he and Nesryn sail for Antica - the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire and of the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme. It's Chaol's one shot at recovery, and with war looming back home, Dorian and Aelin's survival could depend on Chaol and Nesryn convincing Antica's rulers to ally with them. But what they discover there will change them both - and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. Empire of Storms The long path to the throne has just begun for Aelin Galathynius. As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear. Will Aelin succeed in keeping her world from splintering, or will it all come crashing down? Queen of Shadows Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Now she returns to the empire - to confront the shadows of her past ... Bloodthirsty for revenge on the two men responsible for destroying her life, and desperate to find out if the prince and his captain are safe, Celaena returns to Rifthold. She has accepted her identity as Aelin Galathynius, the lost Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her...

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Court Of Thorns And Roses Paperback Box Set (5 Books) : The First Five Books Of The Hottest Fantasy Series And Tiktok Sensation 52.44 GBP All five of the Court of Thorns and Roses paperbacks in a gorgeous box set. 'Passionate, violent, sexy and daring ... A true page-turner' USA TODAY on A Court of Thorns and RosesFeyre is a huntress.The skin of a wolf would bring enough gold to feed her sisters for a month.But the life of a magical creature comes at a steep price, and Feyre has just killed the wrong wolf ... Follow Feyre’s journey into the dangerous, alluring world of the Fae, where she will lose her heart, face her demons, and learn what she is truly capable of. The world expands in A Court of Silver Flames with the story of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. This stunning fiv box set of the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Sarah J.Maas includes A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Frost and Starlight, and A Court of Silver Flames.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Throne Of Glass Box Set (Paperback) : The Complete Series In Paperback From The Author Of Acotar 73.6 GBP Enter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend. Discover the worldwide phenomenon of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Throne of Glass series in this gorgeous 8-book box set!In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle.She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him.She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King’s Champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. As dark forces gather on the horizon – forces which threaten to destroy her entire world – Celaena must fight to protect everything she holds dear, thrusting her into the epic, heart-stopping fantasy series that turned #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J.Maas into a worldwide phenomenon. Fans new and old will dive into this gorgeous paperback box set that contains the entire series: The Assassin’s Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn and the thrilling finale, Kingdom of Ash. Please note: The book cover and spine designs you receive may vary slightly from the image shown.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cad For Fashion Design And Merchandising : Bundle Book + Studio Access Card 85 GBP It takes more than raw talent and passion to make it in today's global apparel and accessories markets—excellent computer-aided design skills are a prerequisite. CAD for Fashion Design and Merchandising allows students to immediately begin creating digital fashion presentations using Adobe Illustrator® and Photoshop®.This book takes an integrated approach, allowing students to master the three-dimensional benefits of combining the two software programs.Colorful illustrations accompany easy, step-by-step tutorials that are geared toward students at the beginner and intermediate levels. Because the book uses fashion photography rather than hand-drawn illustrations as a basis for demonstrating the proportion of fashion croquis, instructors will be able to evaluate students’ mastery of digital illustration regardless of their hand-drawing skills, and students will benefit from a seamless transition from creative thought to digital rendering. Introducing CAD for Fashion Design and Merchandising STUDIO--an online tool for more effective study!~Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips. ~Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions. ~Access modeling agency images of models and images for trend and mood boards. ~View movies demonstrating CS6 applications and other complex processes. ~Further your knowledge with additional practice and supplementary techniques. ~Enhance your learning with a library of fabric swatches and trims. ~Redeeming the code inside this card will give you full access to the content previously contained on the DVD or CD packaged with this book.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Global Fashion Business : International Retailing, Marketing, And Merchandising 32.19 GBP In today’s climate, bringing your fashion brand to new international territories is more challenging than ever.In Global Fashion Business, Byoungho Ellie Jin helps you to take this next step. Diverse examples from large and small companies, developing and developed countries, and online and offline retailers set a precedent for overcoming economic, cultural, legal, and regulatory obstacles.Practical approaches also outline methods of marketing and retailing, while chapters on topics including pricing, entry market selection and product development combine to cover everything you need to know to take your business further than ever before.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Introduction To Fashion Retailing : From Managing To Merchandising 27.9 GBP If you’re taking your first steps into the fast-paced world of retail, then merchandiser, store designer, retailer and educator Dimitri Koumbis is the ideal guide.In An Introduction to Fashion Retailing, he’ll walk you through everything from the history of retail design, to the intricacies of consumer behavior, fast fashion and corporate social responsibility.You’ll also learn professional techniques through detailed case studies of international retailers, including LVMH, Estée Lauder and ASOS. This revised edition includes expanded coverage of omnichannel retail approaches, retail KPIs as well as an outline of future retail trends in brick and mortar, e-commerce and technology.There’s also a whole new chapter introducing visual merchandising, expanding on the importance of the store’s overall design and visual representation of products.

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Laurence King Publishing Visual Merchandising, Third Edition : Windows And In-Store Displays For Retail 26.98 GBP A great introduction for retail students, this book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising and covers both window dressing and in-store areas.Using examples from a range of shops, from fashion emporia to small outlets, the book offers practical advice on the subject, supported by hints and tips from established visual merchandisers.It reveals the secrets of their toolkit and information on the use of mannequins, the latest technology and how to construct and source props, and explains the psychology behind shopping and buyer behaviour.This new edition contains two new case studies, updated images and new material on digital and interactive visual merchandising.Visual Merchandising is presented through colour photographs, diagrams of floor layouts and store case studies, and includes invaluable information such as a glossary of terms used in the industry.

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Laurence King Publishing Visual Merchandising Fourth Edition : Window Displays, In-Store Experience 27.6 GBP This comprehensive guide to visual merchandising covers both window dressing and in-store design, as well as all the other elements, real or virtual, used to enhance the contemporary retail experience.Featuring a range of shops, from fashion emporia such as Selfridges, Printemps, and Bergdorf Goodman to small outlets, the book offers practical advice, supported by tips from the most inspiring visual merchandisers and creative directors across the world. It reveals the secrets of their profession and all there is to know about the latest technology, mannequins, props etc.It also examines the psychology and ever-changing trends behind consumer behaviour. Visual merchandising is presented through lavish colour photographs, diagrams of floor layouts and store case studies, and includes invaluable information such as a glossary of terms used in the industry.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Meet Me At Rainbow Corner : A Page-Turning Story With A Huge Heart That Will Transport You Back In Time 12.26 GBP ‘Walking in time with the beat, clapping her hands, clicking her fingers.How could anyone resist the urge to dance? Dot swirled her Red Cross cape in time with the rhythm.’London, 1944.The air raid sirens are blaring, bombers are hovering.The war with Germany has been raging for four years and there’s no sign of peace coming. Dot Gallagher is newly arrived from Liverpool and working as a nurse.During an air strike, she encounters an enthralling group of American GIs who tell her all about Rainbow Corner, a social club for US troops in Piccadilly – it’s a wartime oasis where they can forget their fears, fall in and out of love and dance the nights away. It’s here that Dot finds a new best friend in Lilly. And together, against the stark realities of war, they must learn to face their fears, uncover secrets and discover the true meaning of love. Praise for Meet Me At Rainbow Corner:'From the first to the last page, I was captivated by this brilliant novel, and simply didn't want it to end' - Jenny Ashcroft'Hugely enjoyable and meticulously researched… A must for anyone who likes wartime novels with a difference' - Rosie Goodwin'A beautiful book about friendship, romance and courage set against a background of war and peril.I loved it' - Sue Cleaver'Utterly charming and engrossing' - Joanna Lumley‘A deeply evocative snapshot of the experiences of a group of feisty and determined women, who became GI Brides in World War 2' - Fiona Valpy

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (Children’s Paperback) 64.4 GBP Loved by millions of readers worldwide, let the greatest children’s book series of all time take you on an unforgettable journey.The hope and wonder of Harry Potter’s world will make you want to escape to Hogwarts again and again.This magical paperback box set is perfect for gifting!Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive.Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle.Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news – Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.An incredible journey is about to begin! Follow Harry and his friends as they encounter two-faced professors and three-headed dogs, battle spiders and serpents, discover the mysteries of Divination and Dementors, and much, much more.The magic starts here …This box set contains all seven novels to whisk you away to Hogwarts and beyond; from the comforting cosiness of The Burrow to the thrills of a rain-streaked Quidditch pitch.With spectacular covers by award-winning artist Jonny Duddle, these gorgeous paperback editions are presented in a stunning slipcase featuring the sweeping landscape of Hogwarts castle and grounds.These books are to be treasured and read time and time again – an unmissable adventure series that has sparked a lifelong love of reading in children all over the world. Seven magical stories, one epic adventure. **********************************Praise for the Harry Potter books:‘That rare thing, a series of stories adored by parents and children alike.’ – Daily Telegraph‘A phenomenon … Grown men in suits have been spotted with them on trains.Parents squabble over who gets to read them to the kids, and teachers say a chapter can silence the most rowdy of classes.’ – Guardian‘One of the greatest literary adventures of modern times.’ – Sunday Telegraph‘Spellbinding, enchanting, bewitching stuff.’ – Mirror‘The only thing wrong with it is that you can’t put it down.’ – Fiona Chadwick, 9 years old‘It is very funny.I would love to be Harry and make up some magic spell to play on my teachers.’ – Tom El-Shawk, 11 years old‘My mum loved it so much she would not let my dad read any of it to me.’ – Alexander Benn, 7 and 9¼ years old‘It’s for all ages and it’s brilliant.’ – Katrina Farrant, 10 years old

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives : An International Inquiry With Immigrant Children And The Arrival 34.95 GBP Winner of the Literacy Research Association’s 2015 Edward B.Fry Book AwardImmigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including refugees and asylum seekers.Language and literacy are crucial for inclusion in a new context but these must be developed in spaces where these children feel safe to explore themes that resonate with their experiences; to express their understanding and to engage in intercultural exchange.Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives presents the exploration of response strategies to Shaun Tan's The Arrival.The inquiry was carried out in educational settings, with children from many different parts of the world, in four host countries: the UK, Spain, Italy and the USA.The findings reveal the benefits of using wordless narratives such as picturs and graphic novels together with visual strategies to support immigrant children’s literary understandings and visual literacy.They also reveal the wealth of experiences the children bring with them which have the potential to transform educational practices.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Children’s Emotions In Europe, 1500 – 1900 : A Visual History 26.67 GBP This book gives you the historical sensation of coming face to face with the bodily expression and regulation of children’s emotions over time.The study does this by encouraging you to look through the eyes of well-known artists, like Albrecht Dürer, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Jan Steen, Antony van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Titian in early modern Europe, and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Thomas Lawrence,Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Philipp Otto Runge, Willem Bartel van der Kooi, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, and Jozef Israëls in the late 18th and 19th centuries.These sources are supplemented by works from less-famous artists, as well as popular emblem books, child-advice manuals, observations from the emerging child sciences, and personal documents. Jeroen Dekker observes children’s emotions mainly in the child’s world and in the domestic emotional space, and connects them with history’s ongoing, underlying discourse on education and the emotions.This discourse was developed by theologians, philosophers, and moralists like Augustine, Aquinas, Erasmus, Descartes, Jacob Cats, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by Romantic educationalists like Friedrich Fröbel and Ellen Key, and by scientists like Charles Darwin and William James who emphasized the biological instead of the moral fundament of children’s emotions. The story of children’s emotions is told in the context of cultural movements like the Renaissance, Humanism, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the starting Age of Child Science.Children’s Emotions in Europe, 1500 – 1900 crucially highlights the continuous co-existence of regulation-oriented and child-oriented educational views on children’s emotions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Visual Language Of Comics : Introduction To The Structure And Cognition Of Sequential Images. 32.19 GBP Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics.Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives—until now.This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language.Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text.Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions.Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain’s comprehension of visual narratives.From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans’ expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Design Of Race : How Visual Culture Shapes America 25.14 GBP Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction – typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Power And Influence Of Illustration : Achieving Impact And Lasting Significance Through Visual Communication 27.59 GBP Delving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade – and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical.

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Production Design For Screen : Visual Storytelling In Film And Television 34.95 GBP Packed with colour film stills, exclusive pre-production artwork and behind-the-scenes production images, this landmark book celebrates the production designer’s contribution to visual storytelling on screen.It illuminates the visual concepts behind familiar screen spaces and unpicks how and why they are so effective in conveying character and story. Seven case studies, developed from exclusive interviews with world-renowned designers, reveal the concepts behind some of the most engaging imagery on screen and establish a dialogue around the shared language of visual storytelling. Jane Barnwell offers a new methodology for evaluating the designer's work on screen through five categories of analysis: space, interiors and exteriors, light, colour and set decorating.All of which combine to create the visual concept evident in the final screen image and together provide a model for the analysis of production design. Practical exercises and examples of real world projects walk you through the design process from breaking down the script and developing initial ideas to identifying a coherent conceptual vision.If you are a filmmaker, Production Design for Screen will inspire and guide you in your own work.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Communication Design : An Introduction To Design Concepts In Everyday Experience 30.35 GBP Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day?Today’s work in visual communication design shifts emphasis from simply designing objects to designing experiences; to crafting form that acknowledges cognitive and cultural influences on interpretation. In response, Meredith Davis and Jamer Hunt provide a new slant on design basics from the perspective of audiences and users.Chapters break down our interactions with communication as a sequence of meaningful episodes, each with related visual concepts that shape the interpretive experience.Explanatory illustrations and professional design examples support definitions of visual concepts and discussions of context.Work spans print, screen, and environmental applications from around the world.This introduction to visual communication design demystifies the foundational concepts that underpin professional design decisions and shape our experiences in a complex visual world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Research : An Introduction To Research Methods In Graphic Design 31.27 GBP Packed with more than 200 colour illustrations, Visual Research explores a range of research methods that can be used by graphic designers and visual communicators in the development of clear and purposeful design solutions.The book introduces key terms and theories that underlie design research; examining the importance of visual grammar and design literacy, audience, communication theory and semiotics. Each chapter features case studies, many new to this edition, that demonstrate how the use of research methods can form the basis of effective visual communication and design problem solving, eschewing end-product analysis for a discussion of the way research feeds into the design process. With new case studies from Matt Cooke, Colette Sadlier and many others, this new edition also brings together all of the 'Key Concept' features and content from previous editions into their own distinct chapter, making it easier for readers to discover design-led tools and information design methods, for both print and on-screen design.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audio-Visual Roman Women : Gender, History And Screen Media 82.8 GBP This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them.Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a range of representations that have given life to Roman women through a multisensory experience of history as image, movement and sound, starting from the 1900s through to the 2020s (from the arrival of cinema to the ascendance of video games).This book asks: what sources do screen media draw on for their Roman women (given the scarcity of suitable ancient material), how are they assembled aesthetically and ideologically using the specific devices of such media (from camerawork to gameplay), and who are they made by and for (especially in terms of gender)?Each chapter investigates the diverse ways these representations interlock with the social position of women at the time in which they were made, and consider to what extent they have responded to the emergence of feminism, the revisionist scholarship on ancient women that emerged in the mid-1970s, and the rise of the #MeToo movement from 2006.The challenge of creating authentic yet compelling portrayals of Roman women is greater than ever, in a media culture marked by anti-feminist rhetoric and a wide gap between our ancient sources (where female agency is tightly constrained) and current expectations for powerful women in popular culture.The volume will therefore provide a stronger platform on which to build the Roman women of the future. The editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.Open access was funded by University College London.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Starry Night, Blurry Dreams : Visual Poetry From The Iconic Sally Rooney Illustrator 15.94 GBP welcome to the beautiful universe of Henn Kim who are youwhen you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of visual poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to carryhold onWhen words aren't enough to describe our emotions, this book will offer comfort, joy and a friend in the dark. we all have our own beautiful universe 'An intoxicating mix of familiarity and surreality' - Creative Review

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Future Cities : A Visual Guide 28.82 GBP What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years?How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers.This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now.It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities. Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book.Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities.In this lavishly illustrated text, the authors apply several critical lenses to consider the subject in different ways: technological futures, social futures, and global futures, providing a comprehensive survey and analysis of visions for future cities, and engaging creatively with how we perceive tomorrow’s world and future studies more widely.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Crossmappings : On Visual Culture 27.9 GBP The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture.The crossmappings in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as well as sovereignty and political power. Each chapter tracks transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel not only from one historical moment to the next, but also from one medium to another.Following Bronfen on these journeys into the cultural imaginary, the reader encounters prominent artists such as Edgar Degas, Francesca Woodman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso and William Shakespeare, alongside Classical Hollywood's film noir and melodrama, and the TV series The Wire and House of Cards.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bringing Forth The : Visual Art And The World Of Contemporary China 22.38 GBP Bringing Forth the New provides a headlong introduction into the world of Chinese contemporary visual art, opening from the art world onto the political, technological and economic vectors of recent Chinese history.Each chapter reads an important facet of recent Chinese history through the work of a significant artist.From examining trade war and intellectual property through the work of political pop painters such as Yu Youhan, to the development of gendered constructs in China through the work of Cui Xuiwen.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Contemporary Chinese Cinema And Visual Culture : Envisioning The Nation 87.4 GBP Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state.It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism.At the heart of Lu’s analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance.He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation.His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Increasing Visual Literacy And Critical Thinking Skills Through Graphic Novels 27.6 GBP In order for students to reap the benefits of graphic novels, teachers need to first incorporate them into their classrooms.Graphic novels are not only a viable option to improve student retention of literature, but also the cornerstone of several potential lesson plans.The multimodal nature of graphic novels allows teachers to shape their lessons in new directions.When the validity of graphic novels is no longer a question, students and teachers alike will discover the countless benefits of multimodal learning.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Circus : A Visual History 46 GBP Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference BooksThis beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus related artworks from the French National Library’s private collections, celebrated cultural historian Pascal Jacob tells the story of travelling entertainers and their art and trade.From nomadic animal tamers of the Dark Ages to European jugglers and acrobats of the 1800s, from the use of the circus as Soviet propaganda to the 20th-century Chinese performance art renaissance, this is an exhaustive history with a uniquely international scope. Jacob draws on both rare and famous artworks, including prints dating from the 13th century, and paintings by Picasso and Doré.In doing so he demonstrates the circus to be a visual and physical masterpiece, constantly moving and evolving, and just as exciting an experience for audiences now as it was 1,000 years ago.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Patterns Of Comics : Visual Languages Of Comics From Asia, Europe, And North America 26.98 GBP Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States.But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways?Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures?To address these questions, The Patterns of Comics seeks evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000 panels from more than 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States.This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years.It compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run.Throughout, it not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design Thinking For Visual Communication 26.98 GBP How do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief?How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more. Now in its second edition, the highly popular Design Thinking for Visual Communication identifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work.Step-by-step guidance for each part of the process is highlighted by real-life case studies, enabling the student to see teaching in practice.This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favour of a useable approach to design as a problem-solving activity. The new edition now includes contributions from a broader international range of design practices and adds depth to existing case studies by looking in greater detail at some of the processes used.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Studies : A Social Scientific Perspective 36.79 GBP This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the field of visual studies.Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at students and scholars in the social sciences, it explores the multiple meanings of images and visual culture in human life. Divided into three parts, the first section departs from a framework of the look as a medium for understanding imaging practices and offers a critical analysis of the changing ways in which vision has been understood across epochs and cultures and the politics attached.The second section opens with an expanded understanding of images, addressing their affective, sensory and performative roles.It then discusses semiotic tensions between the icon and the index and the role of social interaction in the visual field and ends with an analysis of immersive viewing in a creative juxtaposition between distinct, culturally situated, imaging practices.Building on the previous sections, the third part provides a series of applications in specific terrains, such as on the significance of faces, on cameras and their environments, the visual culture of death, x-ray imagery and the meaning and role of shadows.Insisting on the role of the look as a medium for studying the visual field, this book reminds us of the importance of images not only as representations of the world but also as proper co-travellers and companions of our journeys on the earth. The book serves as an ideal introductory text for courses across the social sciences by directing the reader’s attention to the generativity and interactivity of imaging practices.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Who Understands Comics? : Questioning The Universality Of Visual Language Comprehension 28.82 GBP **Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work**Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted.But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood?Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought.Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed.Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system.Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Global Bunyan And Visual Art 87.4 GBP This book advances the conversation about the presence, aesthetic appropriation, and re-interpretation of the foundational English author John Bunyan (1628–1688), whose works and legend have had a vibrant afterlife in visual art. Focusing on the global reach of Bunyan’s works and legend through multiple media and cultural adaptations provides a unique opportunity to discover the varied and generative influence of Bunyan on cultures past and present, promoting a more diverse appreciation of Bunyan's unparalleled reach.The contributors also foster opportunities to discuss the role of intermediality in contemporary re-appropriations of early modern literature in the context of globalization, as well as a critical exploration of Bunyanic presence in global contemporary art via intertextual and intermedial relations.

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