Book - Footwear Design

Price: £24.95

Book: Footwear Design - Portfolio Skills

Author: Aki Choklat (Laurence King Publishing, 2012), books, ISBN: 978-1-85669-745-3

Contents

Introduction of Footwear Design

1: Footwear Design Then and Now
2: Shoe Basics
3: Research
4: Collection Design
5: Presentation
6: Training and Working in the Footwear Industry

Footwear design has become the new dream career, and this book is the first guide to show the key skills and tips behind the trade, for both budding designers and anyone interested in shoes. In this book Aki Choklat explores the footwear design process, explaining the differences between the anatomy of the foot and the anatomy of a shoe, showing how one constrains the other, before moving onto the research and design development processes and the art of creating a complete collection. The all-important presentation is then discussed, including illustrative techniques, before the book ends with advice for those wishing to pursue a career in footwear design.

Illustrated throughout with inspirational sketchbooks detailing the design process and specially commissioned images of cutting-edge shoe design, the book also contains case studies featuring an array of international shoe designers, including highly successful designer Chau Har Lee, who was the tutor of P&M's Five-Day Intensive Shoemaking Class.

Aki Choklat is an international design professional and shoe designer. He not only runs his own footwear label but also works as a trend and design consultant for numerous companies and lectures at Polimoda: International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Florence, Italy. He has worked with many design schools including London College of Fashion, Fashion Institute of Technology and Prescott & Mackay School of Fashion and Accessory Design.

 

Image of the book credits to Laurence King Publishing.

Paperback
350 illustrations
192 pages
280 x 216 mm

 

Do you want to learn shoe design techniques? If so, check our Footwear Design & Production Masterclass in the UK and the Introduction to Footwear Design course in the USA, lectured by author of this book - Aki Choklat. If you book Aki's Footwear Design course at the same time when buying this book you will have 10% off student discount. Click here to get the offer code.

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