Bloomsbury Visual Arts blog

As the proud sponsors of the 2016 Stitch Your Brain competition, we’ve loved checking out your bold and beautiful entries. And now, it is with serious needlework envy, that we can reveal that 2 winners have finally been announced…

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Lavishly illustrated with a dazzling array of shoes from all over the world, Shoes: An Illustrated History tells the extraordinary story of this ultimate object of desire, from antiquity to the present.

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To celebrate the legacy and career of Alberto Giacometti, one of the great twentieth century artists, both the Sainsbury Centre and Tate Modern are hosting exhibitions to showcase some of his most memorable and best loved work.

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The start of term is fast approaching, so we’re shining the spotlight on two core textbooks from the Required Reading Range. Fully illustrated and packed with case studies and commentary from international professionals and practitioners, both Visual Research and Visible Signs, are practical, visually stimulating sourcebooks for students. 

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As well as showcasing a great selection of do-it-yourself tutorials and sharing her adventures in homemade clothing design, the lovely Janene from OooBop has been hosting an exclusive giveaway for us on her blog.

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In the wake of the EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 finale, we caught up with last year’s winner Kévin Germanier. The 2014/15 cycle victor talked to us about his exclusive upcoming collection for Shanghai Tang, as well as his experiences of working with sustainable materials in a commercial environment.

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Last week the EcoChic Design Award culminated in a winner being announced live at this year’s grand final fashion show, which took place during Hong Kong Fashion Week. Bloomsbury Publishing and our imprint Fairchild Books were once again very proud to prize sponsor this event, as well as highlight its pioneering ambition to reduce waste and promote sustainability in the fashion industry. We’ve also been equally eager to reveal which of the 10 finalists walked away with the top prize…

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The EcoChic Design Award is returning for its fifth year, and this time around organisers Redress are celebrating this milestone anniversary by showcasing even more outstanding sustainable design talent from around the world. Bloomsbury Publishing is proud to support this event for the third year in a row and can’t wait to show you this year’s entries.

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This year Bloomsbury sponsored Modeconnect’s #YourView15 competition, a contest that scoured the globe to find the best and brightest fashion design students. Well, we’re very excited to announce that this years winner Megan Wyatt sat down with us to discuss her recent victory and the inspiration behind her winning collection.

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We chatted with recent fashion graduate Annabel Dowsing who told us all about the inspiration and design process behind her latest collection ‘Men at Work’.

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