Craft & Hobbies
We live for DIY. From learning how to take your fashion line to the next level with Project Runway's Daniel V. (Fashion Inside Out) to the coolest photography projects ever (Photojojo), we represent some of the leading design and craft books. Nikol Lohr provides shows us how to knit lingerie (Naughty Needles), and TV host and designer Mark Montano teaches us how to craft gorgeously from inexpensive items (Big-Ass Book of Crafts).
A Wide Range
To learn more about the books to your left, roll over their covers with your mouse.
A Wide Range
To learn more about the books to your left, roll over their covers with your mouse.
Mark Montano
The Big-Ass Book of Crafts
Simon Spotlight Entertainment/Simon & Schuster
Mark Montano is a fashion designer, popular TV show host of an upcoming show on Bravo, as well as shows like "While You Were Out" and "Ten Years Younger." He’s also the author of the Big-Ass series, which show readers how to make all kinds of fabulous projects using the most unexpected—and inexpensive—materials.
Joann Eckstut and Sheran James
Room Redux
Chronicle Books
Room Redux has become a home decorating classic, packed with information to introduce readers to basic design concepts and to help them problem solve for every room’s imperfections. Written by Joann Eckstut, founder of The Roomworks and a leading color consultant, and designer and writer Sheran James.
Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensen
Photojojo
Potter Craft/Random House
Don’t let your photos languish on your computer! Turn them into custom photo laptop bags, photo-imaged cupcakes, lamp shades with familiar faces, etc, etc. The zeal for the uber-hip Photojojo DIY project book based on the online newsletter of the same name has been covered in The New York Times, CNET, MSNBC, ReadyMade, Make, The Washington Post, Wired, Digg, Flickr Blog, The Wall Street Journal, Macworld, PC World, and USA Today.
Nikol Lohr
Naughty Needles
Potter Craft/Random House
Nikol Lohr takes knitting worlds beyond sweaters and scarves in this ‘adults only’ how-to book, including patterns for corsets, pasties, condom critters, and three different bikinis. Naughty Needles has received positive reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, which writes, “Ms. Lohr’s beautifully illustrated and coyly annotated book, ‘Naughty Needles,’ could be a 50’s pinup calendar for wool fetishists. The tableaus she presents are provocative in a retro way, mixing Betty Boop va-va-voom with Doris Day innocence.”
Daniel Vosovic
Fashion Inside Out
Watson-Guptill/Random House
"Project Runway" finalist Daniel Vosovic reveals the particulars of fashion design from start to finish in this detailed guidebook. With beautiful photographs by Michael Turek, a foreward written by Tim Gunn, and interviews with fashion greats like José Covarrubias of Elite Model Management, Heidi Klum, and Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion Inside Out is an in-depth look at the fashion industry today.
Joshua Jay
Magic: The Complete Course
Workman
“Every 10 or 20 years a book comes along that introduces a whole new generation to the art and craft of magic. This is it,” says Magic magazine editor-in-chief Stan Allen. Magic: The Complete Course -- a combined book and DVD set – is a comprehensive beginner’s guide to magic by one of its rising stars. In 1998, at the age of 17, Joshua Jay became the youngest person to win the World Magic Seminar. Since then he has been a performer and headliner in over 40 countries.