Functional clothing design : from sportswear to spacesuits /
Functional Clothing Design introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing. It explores the ways design can achieve goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety or increasing body function. Building on the groundbreaking text Clothing: The Portable Env...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.,
2015.
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| Summary: | Functional Clothing Design introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing. It explores the ways design can achieve goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety or increasing body function. Building on the groundbreaking text Clothing: The Portable Environment by co-author Susan M. Watkins, this text covers aspects of functional clothing design including user-centered design for comfort and function in clothing, clothing for thermal protection, impact protection and hazardous environments, the design of wearable technology and other apparel solutions that enhance and augment body function, commercial product development and the development of functional garmets and materials. |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Clothing. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-415) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857854674 (alk. paper) 0857854674 (alk. paper) |