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Title: Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator
ISBN: 0713490225
Author:
Kevin Tallon
Publicate Date: 2006-09-28
Publish: 2006-09-28
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator
Great book! One of the better offerings for this industry.
Would be better if he used clipping masks for his ribbing technique...
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2: Great for beginners
This book is Great for novice Illustrator users. It has great step by step tutorials that really walk the reader through the basics of Illustrator. The tutorials are clear and informative. The book is well organized. As a proficient Illustrator user, I found a couple of tricks useful, but overall I would not recommend for anyone already experienced with Illustrator or for graphic artists not in the apparel field. Also the book is geared toward readers in the UK and therefore instructs the reader to set settings to A4 paper and millimeters. This may be confusing for some readers, and using A4 paper settings will probably not work with most US printers.
I will be teaching a CAD for apparel class this fall, and plan to use this book. It can be difficult to find CAD books that are geared towards fashion design, and many of the great books out there are starting to become out of date. This book is relevant and current (Illustrator CS3).
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3: Life Saver
Even though this book was written with the Mac user in mind...it has been a life saver for me. Before reading this book I was ready to go out and purchase fashion design software when I already had Illustrator. Since reading this book and working through it using Illustrator, i am able to create designs in Illustrator and transfer my drawings onto Illustrator. This is a good book if you are new to Illustrator.
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4: it's ok, but a little too "easy"
This book is very nicely made. Easy to read...but the content is aimed for beginners only - and fashioners only. It deals with geometrical shirts, pants, skirts etc... no complex design. It's not a general book on Illustrator. It wont fit for all design learning purpose.
- the pros:
It's Okay for fashion design students (beginners).
It teaches the basics in a very clear way. If thick books and too much details and explanations frighten you, then this book will fit you. It's a step-by-step easy learning book.
- the cons:
Definitively not for graphic designers who work with higher drawing skills.
If you already have read other learning books on illustrator (or you already have learned some basics), you wont learn much from this one.
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5: Great Deal, Great Intro to Illustrator
This book is Fabulous!
This book is a much better guide than the recommended one for a class that I am currently taking at Cornell U. that has an Illustrator component to it. Although I have just received it and therefore haven't used it much yet, the only missing info so far seems to be for drawing a zipper, a necessary tool for fashion design!
This book is set up in an easy, tutorial manner and seems to cover a lot of tools for illustrating fashion technical flats.
Minor Beware: the author is a MAC snob. All the patterning software that I have used(Lectra,Gerber,Optitex) is PC platform and I would have thought that he should recognize that the Fashion Industry is mostly PC based and put in MAC commands after the primarily used PC ones.
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