books about: patterns (construction architecture application)

books about: patterns

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Post Pattern, 2013

A former USC football player back in the day, Burnside has recently left the LAPD following a scandal and has started his own private investigation agency. After someone fires a shot at a football star from a rival university, Burnside takes on the case which leads him into both the underbelly and the aristocracy of Los Angeles. Burnside unravels a complex series of baffling leads as he weaves his way through the investigation. As the body ...

Pattern and Design Coloring Book (Volume 1)
Jenean Morrison

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Enjoy a creative collaboration with one of today's top surface and textile designers. Jenean Morrison brings her fresh, modern, intricate designs-- you bring the color! 50 original patterns and designs for coloring! Repeat patterns, florals, geometric and abstract prints. Artwork is on the front of the pages only; backs of the pages are blank. Colorists of all ages will enjoy these designs!

Pattern Magic 2
Tomoko Nakamichi

Laurence King Publishers, 2011

Pattern Magic 2 is the cult pattern-cutting book from Japan, partner to the original title Pattern Magic . Inspiring and exciting, this volume takes a creative approach to pattern cutting, with more step-by-step projects for fashion designers and dressmakers to enjoy. These easy-to-follow illustrations and detailed instructions makeit easy to create stunning, sculptural clothes.

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994

* Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers to create more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves. * The authors begin by describing what patterns are and how they ...

Head First Design Patterns
Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ...

O'Reilly Media, 2004

You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend your time on...something else. ...

Pattern Magic
Tomoko Nakamichi

Laurence King Publishers, 2010

Pattern Magic is the cult pattern-making book from Japan. Taking inspiration from nature, from geometricshapes, and from the street, this book harnesses the sheer joy of making and sculpting clothes. The book takes a creative approach to pattern making, with step-by- step projects for fashion designers and dressmakers to enjoy. Each project is beautifully illustrated with clear diagrams and photographs showing the stages of construction, the ...

Pattern (Math Counts)
Henry Pluckrose

Children's Press(CT), 1995

This revised edition of this maths book for the younger reader has new photographs and clearer text. It aims to promote discussion about the illustrations and encourage further investigation. The book also contains notes for teachers and parents. It is part of the "Knowabout" series of books.

Pattern Magic: Stretch Fabrics
Tomoko Nakamichi

Laurence King Publishers, 2012

Pattern Magic Stretch Fabrics is the third in the series of cult Japanese pattern making books, now translated into English. The new volume looks at working with stretch and jersey fabric. Material that stretches lengthways or sideways can be magical in itself. This book takes the special qualities of jersey and stretch fabrics and uses them to create stunning, sculptural designs. In two parts, the book shows how to work with stretch fabrics and ...

Pattern Fish
Trudy Harris

Millbrook Press, 2000

Book Details: Format: Library Binding Publication Date: 10/1/2000 Pages: 40 Reading Level: Age 5 and Up

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, ...

Oxford University Press, 1977

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in ...

Gerhard Richter: Patterns: Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
Gerhard Richter

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2012

Patterns represents a brilliant new adventure in image-making and book-making by Gerhard Richter, who in recent years has produced several fascinating explorations of the possibilities of the artist's book. For this latest project, Richter took an image of his work "Abstract Painting" (CR: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, up to 4,096 strips. This process, involving twelve ...

Sew Everything Workshop: The Complete Step-by-Step Beginner's Guide with 25 Fabulous Original Designs, ...
Diana Rupp

Workman Publishing Company, 2007

The Book A lively how to and why to sew tutorial that marries attitude and instruction while teaching everything you need to know: How to find the right machine, and become one with it Essential skills, from winding a bobbin to sewing a dart to customizing a pattern Preparing a workspace The Ten Fabric Commandments Laying out and cutting patterns With step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout The ...

JavaScript Patterns
Stoyan Stefanov

O'Reilly Media, 2010

What's the best approach for developing an application with JavaScript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous JavaScript coding patterns and best practices. If you're an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are ideal -- whether you're writing a client-side, server-side, or desktop ...

Pattern: 100 Fashion Designers, 10 Curators
Editors of Phaidon

Phaidon Press, 2013

PATTERN is the follow-up to the 2005 Phaidon success SAMPLE, presenting 100 of the most creative fashion designers who have recently emerged internationally. Selected by 10 of the most respected figures in the field - a mixture of leading designers, stylists, editors, educators, bloggers and writers - it is a must-see catwalk in a book.

Patterns for College Writing with 2009 MLA Update: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, best-selling authors and experienced teachers, know what works in the classroom. They have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections. The readings are a balance of classic and ...

Pattern Sourcebook: Around the World: 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs
Shigeki Nakamura

Rockport Publishers, 2008

250 Inspired Patters to Use in Creative Projects and Designs This book is a magnificent and useful collection of World-style patterns. The carefully selected images are organized in 10 categories making this book a wonderful resource for crafters, artists and professional designers. The CD ROM provides 250 patterns in both high definition JPEG format and PSD with a layer so you can freely create your own patterns by coloring and ...

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Martin Fowler

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons ...

Pattern Sourcebook: Nature: 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs (v. 1)
Shigeki Nakamura

Rockport Publishers, 2009

This book presents a collection of carefully selected nature-inspired patterns for use by designers and artists in their projects and personal work. A companion CD ROM provides 250 patterns in high-definitional JPEG format along with PSD format from which you can freely manipulate and modify the patterns to customize them for your own use. This is an inspirational and highly practical reference and sourcebook for anyone working in the area of ...

Pattern Making (Portfolio Skills)
Dennic Chunman Lo

Laurence King Publishers, 2011

An introduction to the basic principles of pattern cutting, this practical book shows students how to interpret the human form and look at clothing through the eyes of a designer rather than a consumer. As well as explaining the proportions of human anatomy, the book introduces key tools and then takes the reader from simple pattern-cutting ideas to more advanced creative methods. Finally, the book looks at the work of fashion designers who are ...

Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing , they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, ...