Arkitektur og design

Although there are many books on thermoplastic composites available, none emphasize flexible towpregs and their composite properties. This book discusses various methods of manufacturing flexible towpregs, their properties, textile preforming behavior, properties of textile preforms, and properties of final composites.

All over the world, vast research is in progress on the domain of industry 4.0 and related techniques. Industry 4.0 is expected to have a very high impact on labor markets, global value chains, education, health, environment, and many social economic aspects.

Healthcare management has rapidly changed over the last few years from disease centered to patient centered. The analysis of healthcare data plays an important role in healthcare management, but the privacy of patient's records must be of equal concern. This book covers the privacy issues and data protection laws in healthcare industries.

This book covers the response of the seabird research community to a biodiversity crisis aiming to contribute towards environmental sustainability. It should provide inspiration to a wide range of professionals and students, including the much needed world-wide collaboration between research groups and practitioners.

--In Design Your Own Manga & Anime Characters, acclaimed artist Sasha Vahadane provides readers with a roadmap for creating their own original characters from scratch.This is the ultimate manual for beginner artists, and includes chapters on:* Get started, and understand your tools, both traditional materials & digital tools* Learn the basics of anatomy* Explore poses and body movement* Drawing faces and facial expressions* Adding hair, clothes, accessories* Creating dynamic poses* Composition tips and tricks* Other characters: chibis, animals* Find your own style* Draw your own manga stories

Secret Houses of the Cotswolds is a private tour of 20 of the most beguiling castles, estates, palaces and manor houses in this much-loved region including Asthall Manor, Broughton Castle, Stanway, Sudeley Castle and Hilles House.

This book examines a significant moment in fashion's evolution when technological innovations are inspiring designers, brands and consumers to think beyond conventional clothing in the real world and to forge fresh relationships with digital garments within 3D virtual spaces. It shows how these spaces, which are largely driven by augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality and blockchain, enable users to interact with digital avatars and each other. For many the prospect of employing new technologies is as terrifying as it is exciting. Fashion in the Metaverse aims to demystify these advanced technologies, while also delving into the uncertainties and impact of others such as AI, NFTs and Web3. Interviews with pioneers working in the industry provide further insights in to the creation of virtual garments, the rise and operation of the virtual economy and business in the metaverse, and the role of avatars as digital embodiments of self-expression and identity. The book concludes with a look to fashion's future, and explores the ways fashion will evolve with the metaverse, to transcend boundaries and encompass a range of influences, expressions and experiences as fashion breathes its creative spirit into virtual worlds.

There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and design schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae. This handbook of low and no carbon materials for architects and designers focuses on sustainable materials, their sourcing, technical properties and the processes required for their use in architecture. The book showcases new and rediscovered processes for material fabrication, responsible sourcing and creative material design. Material properties (structural, thermal, fire, health and life safety) are described and case studies from around the world illustrate the inventive ways in which these materials have been deployed in the built environment. The book is designed as an introduction to the exciting and rapidly changing world of construction materials. With a better understanding of the social, environmental and economic sustainability of any given material - alongside its technical properties - students of architecture can lead the change in responsible and creative material use.CONTENTS1 Materials overview 2 Extractive materials: earth and clay concrete stone metals glass3 Grown materials: timber and cork paper hemp bamboo seaweed mycelium algae biopolymers wool

In a world awash with influencers sharing videos of their hottest new looks, how do you become a trusted name in fashion or a bonafide stylist to the stars? What skills are needed to curate the image of a wide range of clients, to style a fashion shoot for an influential publication or to design the costumes for a hit show? And what professional styling tips can all fashion lovers apply to their own outfits?Jennifer Michalski-Bray leads the reader behind the scenes of celebrity styling, commercial styling, editorial styling and costume design, and shows aspiring stylists how to build their brand. The book is fully illustrated, includes interviews with other successful fashion professionals and celebrities, and an array of helpful resources: quizzes; toolkit; glossary; and conversion charts.

The question that every supermodel gets asked repeatedly is 'how were you discovered?' Fans love to hear how, where and why their icons were plucked from reality and thrown into the hyper-glamorous world of high fashion. Many of the most famous women in the industry have fairytale-like origin stories. Several faced challenging upbringings, coming from obscurity or poverty before being scouted by chance in a supermarket or airport. Some became celebrities overnight, others fought their way up from a very young age.Hundreds of good models are discovered annually but very few manage to capture public attention and keep it. Many of the supermodels who will feature in this book upturned industry norms and beauty ideals, and faced tremendous rejection before finding success.

Shape, form, color and line are the visual language of abstract art and the inspiration for the designs in this creative pattern cutting book. Taking paintings by influential international artists from the early 20th century to the current day - from Matisse to Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid - as her starting point, fashion designer and educator Monisola Omotoso offers an exciting alternative approach to developing patterns and draping on the dress form. Just as abstract art transforms reality, abstract art can be transformed into real, wearable fashion pieces. Each project begins with a work of art and a short text about the artist. The author then guides the reader through an illustrated step-by-step description of the pattern drafting and draping process of creating a garment inspired by the art.

This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments by financial capital on real-state dvelopments as well as some urban proposals and policies that have been put into practice along the last decade.This book was published a sa special issue of Urban Research and Pract

The competitiveness of local and regional clusters vis-à-vis the challenge set by increasing globalization. The global dispersion of production is currently increased by formation of global business networks that can make regional and national innovation systems replaceable. All this weakens the resilience of clusters. What solution may be envis

In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics. Education and Religion covers all the major religious traditions - Buddh

While addressing different facets of knowledge production and innovation processes, in sum, the chapters in this book provide an overview of the relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the global and regional dynamics in knowledge flows and innovation networks.This book was published as a special issue of European Plan

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Mouments have created, destroyed and resued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making of history, identity and memory. This collection interrogages the legacies and afterlives of the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s

This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development practice and research. It centers on the role that economic development plays in community structures and processes, as well as the influences and impacts it holds. This book is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of the Commun

Cooperatives are an alternative organizational structure for fostering collaborative process and outcomes in communities. Centered on the power of participation by members, coops serve as a "model" means for achieving desired goals and outcomes.This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.