Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion - Vol. 2 Latin America and the Caribbean

The Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion is a new 10 volume reference resource available for use within the Learning Centre.

Volume 2: Latin America and the Caribbean

"Covering an area of spectacularly diverse topography and climate, from arid Mexican deserts to tropical islands and from Amazonian rainforests to the high Andes, this volume explores the dress traditions of the many peoples inhabiting Latin America and the Caribbean. The style and glamour of Latin American cultural icons such as Eva Perón, Frida Kahlo, and Carmen Miranda have long fascinated the world, and Caribbean carnival is internationally renowned. But this region also has an extraordinarily rich legacy dating back to ancient cultures, such as the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya, as well as unique records in the form of pictogram books indicating the early use of textiles and clothing types. In this important reference work, these topics, as well as the lasting impact of Spanish and Portuguese colonial activity, are introduced and contextualized to show how modern societies that are fully participating in globalized commerce have developed in this region. With over 250 images, Latin America and the Caribbean is an invaluable reference tool and an essential starting point for anyone wishing to learn about the importance of dress to this vibrant region." -- back cover

You can also check out the online companion to this publication through the Learning Centre catalogue or via this link: Berg Fashion Library

Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion - Vol. 1 Africa

The Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion is a new 10 volume reference resource available for use within the Learning Centre.

Volume 1: Africa

"Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images - most previously unpublished - Africa is the first major reference work to offer a comprehensive overview of dress and adornment in this vast continent of many nations and peoples. This volume examines past and present dress practices, including the ornamental and symbolic meaning of body decoration, the historical significance of cloth and textiles, and the ancient trading relationships and migrations that have shaped Africa's complex material culture. This is a land of contrasts, where age-old ceremonial dress and mask traditions coexist with the trappings of a modern, globalized society. The rich, varied, and often deeply symbolic dress of African peoples is given its fullest coverage to date in this landmark work." -- back cover

You can also check out the online companion to this publication through the Learning Centre catalogue or via this link: Berg Fashion Library

Sustainable Commercial Interiors

Sustainable commercial interiors by Penny Bonda and Katie Sosnowchik is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Millions of people in the U.S. workforce rely on interior designers to create environments that make them happy and productive, as well as promote their safety and well-being. Sustainable Commercial Interiors provides an engaging introduction to and exploration of the vast field of sustainable design as it specifically relates to commercial interior spaces.

In Sustainable Commercial Interiors, coauthors Penny Bonda, a noted expert on interior design and sustainability, and Katie Sosnowchik, an interior design editor and innovator, share their passion for environmental advocacy while offering designers and architects the technical knowledge important for success in this evolving discipline. the authors apply the concept of environmental responsibility to the design of interiors, and employ the organization of the LEED Green Building Rating System® to sort the design process into five categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy issues, materials, and indoor environmental quality.

Chapters explore:

• In-depth information about interior finishes and furnishings
• Best contemporary examples of sustainable commercial interior design projects, including photos and drawings of the design
• Outside-the-boundaries thinking about sites, water, and energy issues
• Materials, with a strong emphasis on life-cycle thinking
• Indoor environmental quality, including acoustics, thermal comfort, daylighting, and views
• Green design tools, including standards, certification programs, and specifications

Based on the premise that designers, with their power to create, have responsibilities beyond others, Sustainable Commercial Interiors is a vital tool for both novice and veteran green-minded practitioners." -- back cover

Interior Design Since 1900

Interior design since 1900 by Anne Massey (New and expanded edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"From the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day - including discussions of Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement and Art Deco through to Hi-Tech and green design - every style of interior since 1900 is charted in this concise, wide-ranging and indispensible critical survey. Interior design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, all documented here, with the emergence of professional 'interior decoration' and its evolution into interior design. Interior, domestic and other, are explored and placed within their social, political, economic and cultural context. This new and expanded edition is brought up to date with a chapter on sustainable design, focusing on public spaces such as hotels, offices, factories and shops." -- back cover

Design Thinking

Design thinking by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Design Thinking examines the ways in which solutions to a design brief are approached, researched and refined." -- back cover

The Eco-Design Handbook

The eco-design handbook: a complete sourcebook for the home and office by Alastair Fuad-Luke (3rd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"'Green' is a key buzz word in design and architectural circles. The Eco-Design Handbook is the most comprehensive publication to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the everyday consumer. Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world, The Eco-Design Handbook - now completely revised and updated - offers the most innovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly products for all areas of the home and office, including environmentally sound building materials. Some pieces are prototypes, while some are already classics; many others are destined to become part of the design canon.

Whether you are interested in design or the sustainability of our environment, whether you are building a house or looking for new furniture, whether your office is buy stationery supplies or looking for ergonomic chairs, The Eco-Design Handbook is the definitive resource, invlauable for both the lay consumer and the design professional." -- cover

Metric Handbook

Metric handbook: planning and design data edited by David Littlefield (3rd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects. This new edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice - in particular the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional. 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 may need to be aware of.

As well as buildings 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 is a unique authoritative reference for solving everyday planning problems. It has sold well over 100,000 copies worldwide to successive generations of architects and designers - this is a book that truly belongs on every design office desk and drawing board." -- back cover

Barry's Introduction to Construction of Buildings

Barry's introduction to construction of buildings by Stephen Emmitt (2nd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"This new edition of Barry's Introduction to Construction of Buildings adds considerable new material but remains based on the original concept of explaining construction technology through key functional/performance requirements for the main elements common to all buildings. Of particular note in this new edition is a fully integrated approach to environmental issues and construction sustainability." -- back cover

Graphic Standards Field Guide to Commercial Interiors

Graphic standards field guide to commercial interiors by Corky Binggeli is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. The Wiley Graphic Standards Field Guide to Commercial Interiors gives you fast access to the information you need when you're on-site and under pressure.

Presented in a highly visual and easily portable format, the Field Guide is organized to follow CSI's MasterFormat©. It covers everything from acoustics to window treatments, conveying the most common answers about commercial interiors that interior architects and designers need in the real world when visiting a construction site, evaluating existing buildings, meeting with clients, or browsing at a showroom.

The Field Guide to Commercial Interiors extends the familiar Interior Graphic Standards beyond the studio, with:

• Quick access to essential information wherever you are
• Graphic Standards - quality details accompanied by real-world photographs of construction sites
• Illustrations that help you troubleshoot problems, along with on-the-spot solutions
• Compact format that's easy to reference and carry along

The Graphic Standards Field Guide to Commercial Interiors is the ideal companion for the on-the-go interior designer and architect." -- back cover

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 13th November to Fri 19th November 2010)

• UNFOLDING FLORENCE

Acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of flamboyant Australian design pioneer Florence Broadhurst in the feature-length documentary Unfolding Florence which had it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Featuring interviews with Maggie Tabberer, fashion designer Akira Isogawa and Florence Broadhurst's son Robert Lloyd-Lewis, Unfolding Florence also includes dramatised sequences.
Saturday 13 November 2010 8.35pm
SBS TWO Rating: PGCC WS Rpt
Duration: 90 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone finds street art on the walls of the NGV; Henry Wagons plays chess with leading contemporary artists; Ursula Yovich and her inspiring musical life story; and The Orbweavers play the program out.
Sunday 14 November 2010 5.30pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: RICHARD NYLON - EP 4 OF 4

Enter the whimsical, weird and wonderful world of feather torturer, Richard Nylon, one of Australia's finest and most original milliners. Whether you call his work 'wearable art', sculptural headgear or hats, one thing is certain: Nylon's work defies the notion of the conventional hat.
Thursday 18 November 2010 1.25am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: DAVID FRAZER - EP 3 OF 3

David Frazer is a Melbourne-based artist who specialises in various age-old forms of printmaking such as wood carving and etching. With imagination and wit, Frazer's work is imbued with images of nostalgia, love and longing; but always invested with optimism and his signature wry humour.
Friday 19 November 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

Place Advantage

Place advantage: applied psychology for interior architecture by Sally Augustin is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Place design matters. Everyone perceives the world around them in a slightly different way, but there are fundamental laws that describe how people experience their physical environments. Place science principles can be applied in homes, schools, stores, restaurants, workplaces, healthcare facilities, and the other spaces people inhabit. This guide to person-centred place design shows architects, landscape architects, interior designers, and other interested individuals how to develop spaces that enrich human experience using concepts derived from rigorous qualitative and quantitative research.

In Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture, applied environmental psychologist Sally Augustin offers design practitioners accessible environmental psychological insights into how elements of the physical environment influence human attitudes and behaviors. She introduces the general principles of place science and shows how factors such as colors, scents, textures, and the spatial composition of a room, as well as personality and cultural identity, impact the experience of a place. The principles are applied to multiple building types, including residences, workplaces, healthcare facilites, schools and retail spaces.

Building a bridge between research and design practice, Place Advantage gives people designing and using spaces the evidence-based information and psychological insight to create environments that encourage people to work effectively, learn better, get healthy, and enjoy life." -- back cover

Basic Perspective Drawing

Basic perspective drawing: a visual approach by John Montague (5th edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Basic Perspective Drawing, Fifth Edition gives artists, illustrators, designers and architects an accessible visual guide for developing a firm and thorough grasp of the important principles and techniques for perspective drawing. Logically moving from simple concepts to specific tools and methods, the book provides accessible step-by-step illustrations on how to construct perspective views with graphic examples covering every key part of the process.

With the same attractive, easy-to-follow style that made previous editions so popular, this Fifth Edition adds new chapters on freehand sketching and rapid visualization, adding step-by-step examples, and new material demonstrating three-point views and method of setting figures into perspective spaces. Basic Perspective Drawing, Fifth Edition is an invaluable learning tool that can be drawn in, written in, and highlighted to ensure effective understanding of the practices, concepts, and processes of perspective drawing." -- back cover

The Design Directory of Window Treatments

The design directory of window treatments by Jackie Von Tobel is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"The Design Directory of Window Treatments is a professionally illustrated volume detailing the most complete collection of standard and unique window treatment components and designs ever assembled. A must-have resource for designers, workroom professionals and do-it-yourselfers, this directory has concise, straight-to-the-point lists, definitions and descriptions of design fundamentals and components to provide a complete education on window treatments. From drapery, headings and top treatments to shades, awnings and embellishments, each section will assist you in making decisions critical to your design success." -- dust jacket

Architectural Drafting & Design

Architectural drafting & design by Alan Jefferis, David A. Madsen and David P. Madsen (6th edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.



Architectural Drafting and Design, 6E is appropriate for all architectural drafters and CAD operators, whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced. This full-color, comprehensive edition provides the basics of residential design, using the various types of projects that a designer or architect is likely to complete during the actual design process, and is written to meet the most recent editions of IRC and IBC. This book begins with information on architectural styles that have dominated the field over the last four centuries, followed by basic design components related to the site and structure. Commercial drafting, basic materials used for construction, common construction methods, and drawings typically associated with commercial construction are all covered. An important feature of this best-seller is its step-by-step instructions for the design and layout of each type of drawing associated with a complete set of architectural plans, with projects that can be completed using either CAD or manual drawing methods. Readers will gain most municipalities to obtain a building permit for a single-family residence.



Features of this book:

• Introduces LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System) and the 2008 National Green Building Standard™ published by the National Association of Home Builders and International Code Council.
• Features expanded coverage of green construction, including new "Going Green" boxes that focus on up-to-the-minute information on the best and latest environmentally friendly construction materials and techniques.
• Introduces the model codes that govern most construction in the United States, including the 2009 International Residential Code (IRC), the International Building Code (IBC), and the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).
• Discusses thoroughly the 2004 edition of the MasterFormat numbering system published by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).
• Showcases sketches and drawings of professional drafters, designers, architects, and engineers to provide alternative presentation methods as used in industry.
• Includes a robust back-of-book CD that includes supplemental chapter readings, step-by-step layout drawings, chapter tests, checklists, drawing problems, drawing templates, architectural blocks and symbols, Web links, video clips, review questions, and a student workbook. CD icons located throughout the text prompt the reader to seek out additional information relating to chapter-specific topics found on the CD.

-- back cover

Managing the Building Design Process

Managing the building design process by Gavin Tunstall (2nd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Managing the Building Design Process explains the designer's role in the creation of new buildings from the development of the plan through to completion. One key case study is used throughout the book so that the reader can clearly follow the process leading to the creation of a new building.

This new edition expands on the first edition including sections on CAD and sustainability; incorporating updates to legislation and adding new illustrations as well as discussion points and useful references at the end of every chapter." -- back cover

Bodyspace

Bodyspace: anthropometry, ergonomics and the design of work by Stephen Pheasant and Christine M. Haslegrave (3rd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"In the 20 years since the publication of the first edition of Bodyspace, the knowledge base upon which ergonomics rests has increased significantly. The constant need for an authoritative, contemporary, and above all, usable reference is therefore great. This third edition maintains the same content and structure as previous editions, but updates the material and reference to reflect recent developments in the field. The book has been substantially revised to include new research and anthropometric surveys, the latest techniques, and changes in legislation that have taken place in recent years.

New coverage in the third edition:

• Guidance on design strategies and practical advice on conducting trials
• Overview of recent advances in simulation and digital human modes
• Dynamic seating
• Recent work on hand/handle interface
• Computer input devices
• Laptop computer use and children's use of computers
• Design for an aging population and accessibility for people with disabilities
• New approaches to risk management and new assessment tools, legislation, and standards

Bodyspace is an example of the unusual: a text that is a favorite among academics and practitioners alike. Losing none of the features that made previous editions so popular, the author skillfully integrates new knowledge into the existing text without sacrificing the easily accessible style that makes this book unique. More than just a reference text, this authoritative book clearly delineates the field of ergonomics." -- back cover

Color, Space, and Style

Color, space, and style: all the details interior designers need to know but can never find by Chris Grimley & Mimi Love is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Color, space, and style is an indispensable guide to interior designers, students of interior design, and anyone undertaking an interior design project.

In the world of interior design, information is scattered across numerous style publications that provide inspiration but little grounding in the principles of design, or in a few design manuals that offer volumes of data but little philosophy. Color, Space, and Style collects the information and ideas essential to planning and executing interiors projects of every scale and distills them in a format that is as easy to use as it is to carry.

Topics encompass planning and project management, drawing and presentation techniques, the design and sequencing of spaces, the characteristics of color, materials, texture, and pattern, natural and artificial light, building systems, codes and accessibility, and sustainability. Interspersed throughout, interviews with interior demonstrate how these topics can be creatively interpreted in practice." -- back cover

Fashion as Communication

Fashion as communication by Malcolm Barnard (2nd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities.

Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, Barnard addresses the ambivalent status of fashion in contemporary culture. He looks at the producers, consumers and critics of fashion, exploring the tensions between haute couture and high culture, and asking how meanings are generated, and by whom.

Examining concepts such as culture, meaning, class, gender, reproduction and resistance, Barnard demonstrates that fashion is not an innocent form of communication, and uncovers the ways in which clothing can be used both to create and contest identities. The new edition features new illustrations, a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading and research." -- back cover

An Introduction to Visual Culture

An introduction to visual culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff (2nd edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.


An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture.


Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life.


Improved text design and colour images throughout make it an even more valuable teaching tool. Brand new features in the second edition include Key Image studies from Holbein's The Ambassadors, to Blade Runner and the Abu Ghraib atrocities; and a Key Words section in each chapter, discussing vital critical terms and the debates that surround them.


In this innovative, thoroughly revised and extended edition, Nicholas Nirzoeff explores:

• an extensive range of visual forms from painting, sculpture, and photography to television, cinema, and the Internet;
• the centrality of "race" and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the body in shaping visual culture;
• the importance of images of natural disaster and conflict, such as Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq.

-- back cover

J. J. Pizzuto's Fabric Science

J. J. Pizzuto's fabric science by Ingrid Johnson and Allen C. Cohen (9th edition) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"With an increasing emphasis on textiles as a major global industry, the ninth edition of Fabric Science continues to meet the needs of both students and professionals in the textile, fashion, and related industries. This best-selling book is a comprehensive text about the design, structure, and application of textiles. The range of information is exceptionally wide, including basic fiber makeup, fiber innovation, the formation of fabrics, quality issues, and laws that regulate textiles. Topics for this edition include a new chapter about the textile industry and environmental responsibility, nanotechnology, and innovations in industrial textiles. The authors also provide readers with information for textile-related trade and professional associations, as well as a variety of career opportunities in design, production, marketing, merchandising, apparel, and home products." -- back cover