Functional Clothing Design
Functional Clothing Design

Author: Susan M. Watkins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0857854674

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"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 garnets and materials"--Back cover.

Teaching Functional Apparel Design
Teaching Functional Apparel Design

Author: Susan M. Watkins

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781537588926

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This instructor's manual was prepared for a workshop for college professors on the subject of teaching functional apparel design. It covers classroom exercises, projects, quiz and exam questions about apparel for the topics of thermal balance, mobility, impact projection, fastening systems, visibility and hazardous working conditions. It contains more than 75 detailed problem statements for classroom exercises and projects and over 100 quiz and exam questions. In addition, it offers tips on setting up exams, simplifying grading, planning projects for classes where students have no apparel background, using evaluation as a learning tool and helping students to work in teams.

Functional Clothing Design
Functional Clothing Design

Author: Susan M. Watkins

Publisher: Fairchild Books

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780857854681

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Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a worker’s efficiency on the job or increasing body function. Watkins and Dunne present technical material using clear, simple language that can be readily understood by beginning design students with no science or engineering background. Building on the groundbreaking text by Watkins, Clothing: The Portable Environment, this text covers a full range of factors involved in designing functional clothing: protection from thermal, impact and other environmental hazards; enhancing movement and visibility and increasing body function with smart clothing; designing clothing for people with handicaps and designing protective clothing for groups such as the military, who face multiple hazards. Functional Clothing Design focuses on the full range of activities needed to develop functional clothing—from analysis of user needs to choosing appropriate materials to design and design evaluation. The text includes case studies throughout as well as new content on smart textiles and all the latest developments in wearable technology. Designers and others seeking clothing solutions to problems in many fields will find a common language linking a number of disciplines through which they can explore both problems and solutions.

Functional Clothing Design
Functional Clothing Design

Author: Susan M. Watkins

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781501303715

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'Functional Clothing Design' is a text about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a workers efficiency on the job or increasing body function.

Human Body
Human Body

Author: Karen L. LaBat

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 867

ISBN-13: 0429619073

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Human Body: A Wearable Product Designer's Guide, unlike other anatomy books, is divided into sections pertinent to wearable product designers. Two introductory chapters include many definitions, an introduction to anatomical terminology, and brief discussions of the body's systems, setting the stage for the remaining chapters. The book is extensively referenced and has a large glossary with both anatomical and design terms making it maximally useful for interdisciplinary collaborative work. The book includes 200 original illustrations and many product examples to demonstrate relationships between wearable product components and anatomy. Exercises introduce useful anatomical, physiological, and biomechanical concepts and include design challenges. Features Includes body region chapters on head and neck, upper torso and arms, lower torso and legs, the mid-torso, hands, feet, and a chapter on the body as a whole Contains short sections on growth and development, pregnancy, and aging as well as sections on posture, gait, and designing total body garments Describes important regional muscles and their actions as well as joint range of motion (ROM) definitions and data with applications to designing motion into wearable products Presents appendices correlating to each body region’s anatomy with instructions for landmarking and measuring the body, a valuable resource for a lifetime of designing

Clothing
Clothing

Author: Susan M. Watkins

Publisher: Iowa State Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Susan M. Watkin's new revision of Clothing: The Portable Environment, enlivened by 385 illustrations, updates and enlarges her previous study. Watkins writes for the student and teacher of clothing design, the design professional, and the interested layperson. Her text presents the basic processes, theories, and ingredients of clothing creation. The problem-oriented practicing designer and student are offered guidance in database use and selected keywords for each subject - keys to electronic information sources. The author examines functional clothing design for athletes, astronauts, soldier, and others. She also considers garments used by those with special needs - the asbestos worker, the elderly, the person with disabilities - and offers tests for assessment of mobility, sizing, and fit. Other chapters cover materials, designs, and systems for thermal protection; impact theory and protection; clothing for hazardous environments; mobility in clothing; fastening systems, including heat sealing; special needs clothing; and the process of design. Lists of references and a bibliography for further reading are included.

Changing Employee Behavior
Changing Employee Behavior

Author: Nik Kinley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 113744956X

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An important part of every manager's job is changing people's behavior: to improve someone's performance, get them to better manage relationships with colleagues, or to stop them doing something. Yet, despite the fact that changing people's behavior is such an important skill for managers, too many are unsure how to actually go about it. This book reveals the simple, but powerful techniques for changing behavior that experts from a range of disciplines have been using for years, making them available to all managers in a single and comprehensive toolkit for change that managers can use to drive and improve the performance of their staff. Based on research conducted for this book, it introduces practical techniques drawn from the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, and behavioral economics, and show how they can be applied to address some of the most common, every-day challenges that managers face. #changingpeople

Educational Design Research
Educational Design Research

Author: Jan Van den Akker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-11-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1134155654

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The field of design research has been gaining momentum over the last five years, particularly in educational studies. As papers and articles have grown in number, definition of the domain is now beginning to standardise. This book fulfils a growing need by providing a synthesised assessment of the use of development research in education. It looks at four main elements: background information including origins, definitions of development research, description of applications and benefits and risks associated with studies of this kind how the approach can serve the design of learning environments and educational technology quality assurance - how to safeguard academic rigor while conducting design and development studies a synthesis and overview of the topic along with relevant reflections.

Fashion Marketing
Fashion Marketing

Author: Tony Hines

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-02-07

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1136403531

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A collection of international contributions from renowned academics and practitioners from the US, UK, China, the second edition of Fashion Marketing has been completely updated, revised and expanded to reflect the major changes in the fashion industry since 2001 and covers all of the key themes and issues of the area. Key themes and areas covered include globalization, fast fashion, luxury fashion, offshoring, business-to-business, forecasting, sourcing, supply chain management, new product development, design management, logistics, range planning, color prediction, market testing, e-commerce, and strategy.