Fashionary: Visual Style Tokens

If you've been following the blog awhile, then you may have remembered my initial post a while back about an amazing gift that I received about fashion design. This time, I am honoured to collaborate with Fashionary to share with you two of their menswear editions of the Fashionary sketchbook. This book is so much more than a sketchbook, it's an undeniably helpful notebook filled with necessary information that an aspiring designer or any fashion artist can use.

Fashionary, initially started in 2009, as an individual project dedicated to provide efficiency to designers and fashion enthusiasts. It evolved into a fashion sketchbook line—today, the books are still serving the fashion masses.

In the Fashionary book, there is everything from insightful fashion data (laundry labels and industry dates) to useful technical terminology (in the attached fashion dictionary). It's a mere table of contents for a designer, preparing you with some essential elements for developing a visual collection, from concept to all materials used. And, as a former designer myself, I can assure you that having this book would have been astounding for my fellow peers and I during our humble beginnings.

Things To Love: Fashionary is incredibly detailed—it’s equipped with areas for quick sketches, spec sheets, and drawing fashion figures. But, there’s also pattern layout, and concept and line presentation layout inspiration. The brilliant bonus though, is the attached pocket in the back of the book where you can keep swatches, drawing tools, and other items, etc.

The book lends itself to be very valuable, even to the seasoned fashion designer. To be honest, it had been far too long since my last sketching sessions, so I decided to give it a
go and create a few very rough sketches, and grab inspiration from the past. You can be
certain that I will keep at this with stern discipline for a bit, and who knows, I might even
get back to designing again one day.

Take a look at their booklet styles. One of my favourites is the pocketsize hologram set (above), “Fashionary Neon Light,” as well as the exclusively designed version for the V&A museum.

What do you think of Fashionary? Which book would you be interested in? 

The goods: Sketchbook A4 (Mens), and Neon Light set(3)-Courtesy of Fashionary. Shop sketchbooks here. Artwork/sketches by Madison, other images courtesy of www.fashionary.org. *All opinions expressed are my own.

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