Fashion Computing: Design Techniques and CAD

by Sandra Burke

Book Overview

FASHION COMPUTING has become an essential component of the fashion designer's portfolio of skills. This is the first book to comprehensively explain how to use fashion computing software to produce fashion designs and develop those skills.

Through visuals and easy steps, you learn the creative fashion computing design techniques used in the fashion industry.

Specific software: Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, PowerPoint, Gerber and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0958239134
• ISBN13: 9780958239134
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Burke Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Great book, easy to follow and inspirational!

I am thrilled I bought Fashion Computing. The visuals, techniques and exercises are incredibly easy to follow. I urgently needed a book that got me up to speed very quickly with the basics of drawing flats using Illustrator and CorelDraw. I have now started working through the Photoshop exercises to create my fashion presentations - this book makes it all so simple. I love the way the book presents just the essential techniques and tools of the software and gets straight to the point. It is full of inspiring fashion illustrations, flats and presentation work. This book is one I will continue to use as a reference and inspiration! Well worth the money!

A good guidline for beginner

I have started using Illustrator software recently and this book have served a good support for flat sketching the garments for women,men and kidswear.Is also gives tips to prepare portfolio, but you already should know basics of how to use Illustrator programme. It is nicely illustrated book and one can get ideas. But again its a basic book and does not cover all the aspects of flat sketching.

Inspiring and highly informative - excellent for fashion students and the fashion industry!

Great book! Even if you are a complete beginner you will find this book an informative and useful resource. It gets you up and running quickly with really simple, step-by-step, illustrated techniques for fashion computing using current software. In my fashion design studio, we predominatly use CorelDraw, Illustrator and Photoshop, and found this book informative for each of these packages. It covers the basics - how to create flat drawings from vests, skirts, shirts, dresses to pants, and then moves on to producing mood and design boards, visualizing your design ideas using Photoshop. The section on creating a digital portfolio is also vital in todays digital world. Plus it covers womenswear, menswear and childrenswear. It is well illustrated with great examples of flats, illustrations and fashion presentations from illustrators and designers in the fashion industry and from top fashion schools and universities globally.

Top Marks!

It is fantastic! Top Marks! By following the easy steps laid out in the chapters, I cannot believe how simple it is to draw and color my flats, scan and manipulate my fashion drawings and then bring it all together to create my presentations in Photoshop. I use Illustrator and Photoshop primarily at fashion school, and the other books I own do not explain the tools and techniques as simply as this one does...plus the examples are all fashion and textiles based! For the price it's great value.

Highly Recommended Fashion Design CAD Book

This book is absolutely fantastic, it is easy to follow and inspiring. It shows simple techniques to create flats and fashion presentations using Illustrator and Photoshop. It even showed me how to create my flats using CorelDRAW. The techniques are simple and relevant and very well explained. It includes inspiring images and artwork by other designers and illustrators. It also explains how to create a digital portfolio. I found it very useful on my Fashion Design CAD course and will continue to use it even when I graduate.