Myrna B. GarnerBeyond Design: The Synergy of Apparel Product Development

I purchased this textbook as required for my Apparel Product Development class. Although our school offers this text as an e-book for an additional fee, I am inclined to purchase a hard copy of a textbook if I think it will be a good investment for my future career. With that in mind, I do think it was a reasonable purchase, and I will use it as a reference text later. The information on the garment styling chapter was redundant with my other texts, and quite frankly, not very valuable as it was presented. Lots of styling sketches that seemed too elementary for the level of other information in the text. On the other hand, the amount of information and detail on the color management chapter seemed excessive, including information that was well beyond the overview of product development. My biggest complaint, and the reason for a 4 star rating, is the silliness of the review questions and activities at the end of each chapter. Instead of concentrating on the important content presented in each chapter, it seemed like they were geared to discussions of tangent topics, without definitive answers. Not very useful if you are using the questions as a chapter review tool. My suggestion is to skip the "coffee shop chatter questions", and instead, write the chapter terms and their definitions down as you read each chapter. This will serve as a better review of understanding the material.

The book was immaculate, with no damages or anything whatsoever ever.

Loads of information

Required book that I have used numerous times for my college apparel analysis class.

this book takes you from concept to production. Good overview of the industry. i will keep it as a reference.

There's nothing I don't love about this book.It is heavy and it will hurt your back going back&forth from class to studio, BUT it is so worth it and I am keeping mine forever.

The previous edition is not much different. The only major difference is that all the pictures are in color in the new addition.

I thought the serivce was great. The book looked like new and was handled perfectly. I love amazon, I will always be a loyal customer!

Item arrived in good time but very disappointed that five pages are missing which appeared to cut out why? This should have been declared in the sale of the book

as described

Really good book, super interesting!