Gothic Pop Textures: Volume 2

This book provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 ready-to-use designs in the Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for a multitude of uses from advertising to fabric design. Created with unrivalled care, passion, and dedication, this practical volume provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 ready-to-use designs."Gothic Pop Textures: 2" presents designs in the new Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for a multitude of uses from advertising to fabric design.Included with this design catalogue is a Windows and Mac compatible DVD that features all of the designs in super high-resolution, full-colour, and 100 per cent size - ready to reproduce 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 "dark" 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. In Gothic Pop Textures Vol.2 I have tried to raise the level of disorder and creativity. More varied and less elegant, it is fresh and young for a more aggressive target than the first volume. The complexity of the icons and geometries made of circles, lines or optical fillings has determined its style, also arrows and stars, hearts and skulls, a whole universe that can sometimes be found in the tattoos that the young and not-so-young love so much. Every texture is chaos in itself where creative people who like to be stimulated and be daring can fish out something, a fragment to use in a project of theirs. I could say that there has been a jump in time, as if we had travelled into the future, hypothesising a new graphic scenario. A book where new discoveries can be made on every reading.? 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. SELLING POINTS ?A fashion book made by modular textures, suitable for stylists, designers and art directors ?This collection has a 'gothic pop' theme and 'new liberty' style ?130 designs saved in 5 ways - 650 files in all - the use is free with no royalties ?1 free DVD included for WINDOWS and MAC - Vector and Bitmap Hi-res Files, ready for production ?They can be used with many graphic softwares, such as Illustrator or Photoshop ILLUSTRATIONS 130 colour