The AVA Academia blog

Important brand changes for AVA Publishing and Fairchild Books

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Bored, stuck, desperate for ideas, deadline approaching, uninpsired, bored some more. Sound familiar? How do you get out of that rut?

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This is an exciting time for AVA as we were recently purchased by Bloomsbury Publishing (Harry Potter’s publisher…)! We are joining other recent visual arts acquisitions by Bloomsbury’s Academic division, such as Berg and Fairchild.

To celebrate this, AVA are holding a sale and a competition for three people to win a copy of our bestselling title, Simon Seivewright’s Basics Fashion Design 01: Research and Design (second edition).

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For all those who have been waiting patiently…The Fundamentals of Illustration (second edition) has now arrived!

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James Walker’s collection leapt out at us when we saw it on the catwalk at the UCA Epsom show at GFW this year. Eye-catching, memorable, tongue-in-cheek and quintessentially British. We weren’t surprised when we heard that we was up for the Gold Award. He kindly made some time to speak to us at the show, explaining what inspired him.

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New digital technologies have transformed the landscape of fashion design, particularly when it comes to printed textile design. Recently, fashion has seen designers such as Mary Katrantzou making colourful and eclectic prints their signature style. Printed textiles are flavour of the year in the fashion world – to the extent that at the recent Graduate Fashion Week, Julien Macdonald voiced his opinion that the print market is currently ‘saturated’. But many young designers are experimenting with digital, trying out new software and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved when you move away from traditional methods. Kate Lynch has just graduated with a wholly digital collection. Kate will be selling her work at New Designers and Indigo.

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Design Research has arrived! Get a flavour of the book with photos of some of our favourite pages.

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For our latest graduate profile, we spoke to Ally Carter about some of her most successful student projects – several of which feature in Design Research, the latest title in our Basics Graphic Design series.

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Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve, is the setting for an overwhelming installation by Chinese artist Song Dong in which the entire contacts of his mother’s house are displayed throughout the space for a work entitled ‘Waste Not’.

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A little taster of Basics Design: Format, second editon…. [...]