Book Description

This book provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 ready-to-use designs. This work presents designs in the Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for textile fabrics, clothing, home furnishing, and wall papers. Created with unrivalled care, passion, and dedication, this stunning volume provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 free and ready-to-use designs. "Gothic Pop Textures" presents designs in the new Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for textile fabrics, clothing, home furnishing, wall and gift papers, and much more. Also included with this volume is a free Windows and Mac compatible CD that features all of the designs in high-resolution, full-colour, and 100 per cent size - ready to reproduced in perfect alignment. "It is not always possible for taste to follow a straight road, because it is linked to the social and political situations in which we live. Man's need to be more introspective, attracted by mysticism and non-rational figures, full of ancient, spiritual meaning, has produced a look ever-present after '68: the "dark" look which took several roads up to the present time. A gothic look, made up of involutions, forms that are complex, harsh, excessive, lacking colour and very stylised. This look has evolved into a "new liberty", lightening the original heaviness, for example bringing a skull to be associated with a spray of flowers. The gloominess of the times has felt the need to become lighter. I have synthetisised these stylistic features in Gothic Pop and the books of this series. Beginning with this volume, the signs, if essential, are intertwined with liberty, but they are also oriental, arabesque, but without frills, just an excuse to depict a flower or a butterfly. Modernisation in embroidery or the decoration of a gate or the rose window of a cathedral. Black and white with one more colour, or a soft colour to give elegance to these designs. Many designers and stylists have asked me for this sort of image because they were lacking on the market except perhaps in clothing collections, not yet gathered in a book on that theme. In this book you can find these images suitable for becoming textiles, wallpapers or ceramics, ready for use." Vincenzo Sguera AUTHOR Vincenzo Sguera, an Italian architect, has been working in the field of design, fashion, textiles and accessories, directing several creative studios and developing products for many companies at an international level since 1977. In 2003 he founded Arkivia Books and has since worked as an author and publisher. ILLUSTRATIONS 130 colour *