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The Costume Designer's Toolkit: The Process of Creating Effective Design
The Costume Designer's Toolkit: The Process of Creating Effective Design
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The Costume Designers Toolkit provides a comprehensive guide to the skills required to design costumes for live performance, covering topics such as assessing the scope of a production, understanding design thinking, project management, collaborating with teams, and more. It includes case studies and tips from experienced professionals and is ideal for students, aspiring designers, and early-career designers.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Costume Designers Toolkit delves into the diverse range of skills necessary to create costumes for live performances in theater, dance, opera, and themed entertainment. Presented in chronological order, each chapter outlines the tools, strategies, and techniques employed by costume designers to bring vibrant and believable characters to life within a story's environment. The book serves as a comprehensive guide, outlining the step-by-step process of costume design, from developing as an artist and creating an artistic vision for a script to assessing the scope of a production, understanding design thinking and the creative process, project management and budget forecasting, collaborating with and leading creative teams, and current practices in costume rendering and communication.
The topics covered in this text encompass a wide spectrum, including:
• Assessing the scope of a production
• Understanding design thinking and the creative process
• Project management and budget forecasting
• Collaborating with and leading creative teams
• Current practices in costume rendering and communication
• Mixing purchased, rented, stock, and built costumes to form a design
• Designing a garment with impact
• Fitting costumes on performers
• Combining grit and grace for a successful career
Within each topic, experienced professionals provide case studies and valuable tips, highlighting essential skills, describing techniques, and revealing the fundamental elements of artistic leadership, collaboration, and cultural acumen. Whether used as a standalone resource or as part of costume design university courses, The Costume Designers Toolkit is an invaluable guidebook for students, aspiring costume designers, and early-career professionals seeking to excel in this field.
Weight: 736g
Dimension: 177 x 252 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367858285
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