Publisher's Synopsis
This new series of pattern books from V&A Publishing presents the range of the V&A's appeal. Beautifully designed, accessible and informative perhaps a little quirky they are a repository of ideas for designers of all kinds, but also a collection of desirable gift books. Commercial designers looking to license patterns and individual motifs from the collection can use these books as a starting point for research. To this end, each book includes a CD of all of the images shown within to be redrawn or reworked.
The first group of four titles focuses on some of the museum's core groups of patterns, while including some recent acquisitions. The first four titles in the series are William Morris, Digital Pioneers, Indian Florals and The Fifties.
Carefully branded to draw on the V&A's pre-eminent status and market recognition, the series will encourage readers to collect the entire range. The first books will be available in a beautiful special-edition slipcase.
The V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design. For the past 150 years its collection has been an inspiring resource for designers, reflecting a breadth and depth that represents over 3,000 years of artifacts from all over the world.
The first group of four titles focuses on some of the museum's core groups of patterns, while including some recent acquisitions. The first four titles in the series are William Morris, Digital Pioneers, Indian Florals and The Fifties.
Carefully branded to draw on the V&A's pre-eminent status and market recognition, the series will encourage readers to collect the entire range. The first books will be available in a beautiful special-edition slipcase.
The V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design. For the past 150 years its collection has been an inspiring resource for designers, reflecting a breadth and depth that represents over 3,000 years of artifacts from all over the world.
The first four titles are:
Digital Pioneers: After World War Two computers offered the opportunity to explore innovative ways of creating images that would demonstrate an unexpected purity in their natural patterning, symmetry and order.
Indian Florals: Luscious patterns derived from plants and flowers have been used in India for centuries. Lotus flowers and floral meanders are seen in third-century Buddhist sites, and were given an additional dimension by European prints and books that made their way to the sub-continent in the early seventeenth century.
The Fifties: The Fifties produced some of the most inventive and innovative twentieth-century pattern designs as the emerging trend for abstraction in the fine arts acted as a stimulus for many European and American designers.
William Morris: William Morris's world-famous designs possess a timeless quality that sits well with the fashions of our age. He began designing patterns for his own use, but he also wanted to improve the general standards of decorative design.
Indian Florals: Luscious patterns derived from plants and flowers have been used in India for centuries. Lotus flowers and floral meanders are seen in third-century Buddhist sites, and were given an additional dimension by European prints and books that made their way to the sub-continent in the early seventeenth century.
The Fifties: The Fifties produced some of the most inventive and innovative twentieth-century pattern designs as the emerging trend for abstraction in the fine arts acted as a stimulus for many European and American designers.
William Morris: William Morris's world-famous designs possess a timeless quality that sits well with the fashions of our age. He began designing patterns for his own use, but he also wanted to improve the general standards of decorative design.
