Design and llustration Books
Set Margins' publications Design Against Design: Cause and Consequence of a
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£21.85
Set Margins' publications The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material
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£16.15
Set Margins' publications War with Myself Essays on Design Culture
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£19.00
Set Margins' Publications Steve A Framework for AI and Identity Design
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£24.70
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing AB Omforma - Nya Strukturer for Designbranschen
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£16.62
Dokument Forlag Hand Lettering And Beyond: A Beginner's Workbook
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£11.69
Viction Workshop Ltd Packaged for Life: Chocolate: Packaging design
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£28.00
Viction Workshop Ltd Packaged for Life: Scent: Packaging design for
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£28.00
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Hua Mulan
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£16.96
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Bosch
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£16.96
Victionary GET LOST!: Explore the World in Map Illustrations
Book SynopsisFrom iconic landmarks to hidden shortcuts, GET LOST! takes your eyes on a journey and allows readers to explore the lands through the eyes of Illustrators. Before GPS systems and Google Maps were invented, folded paper maps and guidebooks were always our trusty companions while on the road. While paper maps are becoming increasingly obsolete, there’s more to cartography than just bearings and scales. Illustrated maps hone the ability to bring a place to life through vivid drawings, leaving a unique impression filled with the illustrator’s own experiences. GET LOST! boasts four different jacket designs, featuring city maps of London, Paris, Los Angeles or Singapore. Orders will be fulfilled at random from evenly mixed cartons.
£28.00
Victionary Packaged for Life: Coffee & Tea
Book SynopsisThe best things in life may not always be free, but they are often delightful to look at! Rather than be taken for granted, these feel-good goods deserve their time in the spotlight not only for the roles that they play, but also for the visual and aesthetic richness they add to our day-to-day just by sitting on our shelves. Packaged for Life is a simple ode to the products that punctuate our daily existence with joy and equip us with the calm to carry on, as they continue to shape our communities and cultures as indulgences, necessities, or vices.Packaged for Life: Coffee & Tea highlights some of the most clever and delightful packaging design work for what the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation deems as ‘the most consumed beverage in the world’. It serves as a vessel of inspiration through which we can recognise, appreciate, and celebrate the unnoticed or overlooked tactile beauty in everyday product packaging. The book comes with a booklet of fun facts about the beverages featured, including the unique ways they are enjoyed around the world, and the steps involved in a Japanese tea ceremony!
£24.00
Gladstone Gallery David Salle New Pastorals
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£36.00
MIT Press The New Designer Rejecting Myths Embracing Change
Book SynopsisHow to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics. In The New Designer, acclaimed author Manuel Lima aims to change this by challenging common myths and preconceptions about what comprises good design. He argues that designers must take responsibility for the personal, societal, cultural, and environmental impact of their work, rather than simply following a standard template.As he covers fields ranging from graphic design to industrial design to user-experience design, Lima identifies the major steps that designers must take to be a force for good in the world. Rather than sticking to outmoded ideas about perfectionism and individual genius, designers must work together to tackle some of the most challenging questions of the twenty-first century. How do you make room for humanity, with all i
£22.95
MIT Press Ltd From Pessimism to Promise
Book SynopsisA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
£20.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Notes on Design: How Creative Practice Works
Book SynopsisThis book introduces practices that are now part of what people see as ‘21st Century Skills’. The enjoyable essays in this book provide a panoramic view over the subject of design. The essays are written to encourage designers and students of design to reflect upon their field. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves, and about the role of design within the broader contexts of business and society. And design, these days, is not just for designers - many different fields are learning from design to build creative practices, and this book seeks to help to open up design practices for general use. The book is for designers (to help them reflect on their practices, and develop them further) and for students of design across all designing disciplines.
£16.14
BIS Publishers B.V. Know Your Onions - Corporate Identity: Get your
Book SynopsisNot all of us get to work on multimillion corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. If you are new to the sector or honing their skills, this book if for people who have tackled identity projects in the real world, then this is for you. This is a broad introduction on identity design - not branding - don't worry, you'll learn the difference.If you want a book that tells you how to do it, this is for you - if you want a book about how other people have done it - then this isn't the book for you.This book is for graphic designers and people who commission corporate identity projects who want to understand the process and how to deliver one, be it new to the sector or honing their skills.
£15.29
BIS Publishers B.V. Culture Sensitive Design: A Guide to Culture in
Book SynopsisSocieties worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new complexity of cultural groups. Consequently, designers are confronted with the challenge of gaining a clear understanding of this cultural diversity.Culture is a complex phenomenon defined by an ongoing process of shifts in human interactions and experiences. In addition to the functional, technical, and economic requirements, it is primarily culture that defines how any designed object and service will perform and prove itself: a process that largely takes place outside the domain and control of the designer.Culture Sensitive Design provides an overview of theory as well as practical models and methods, aimed to motivate and inspire design students, practitioners, and educators to get in touch with different cultural values, customs, and symbols. It is in order to avoid mistakes that may be obstructive for certain groups of people; to enable cross-cultural cooperation; to learn more about the diverse and complex layers of culture that define who we are, how we think, how we imagine, and how we create; and to open up the design space, thereby creating a tremendous source of new ideas. Richly illustrated with examples of real life situations, the book provides everything necessary to generate optimal circumstances for the best design solutions to emerge.
£23.79
BIS Publishers B.V. Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised
Book SynopsisWhen everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime. Within such a paradigm, design is taken over by the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come without conflicts, struggles and tensions. The most obvious of these, is that design is constantly being replaced. Our dispense culture prompts a yearning for longevity. The compulsion to delete brings alive a desire to retrieve objects, ideas and experiences that refuse to become obsolete. Society is growing more aware of sustainability and alert to the depletion of this world. For the ambitious designer, it is time to take the next step: designing the future with a more holistic consideration and approach. The book is a critical look at the design world with its various design disciplines and how these have developed in the past 10 years. Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe is for professional designers that care about design, the environment and how we live.
£12.34
BIS Publishers B.V. Writing is not Magic its Design
Book SynopsisThis book teaches designers a writing method aligned with their visual thinking, helping them effectively communicate complex ideas and transform writing from a challenge into a creative superpower.
£19.80
Ludion Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world
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£29.75
Harvard University Press Pairs 03
Book SynopsisPairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 03 features Thomas Demand, Mindy Seu, Mira Henry and Matthew Au, Alfredo Thiermann, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, Anne Lacaton, Edward Eigen, Katarina Burin, Marrikka Trotter, Christopher C. M. Lee, Keller Easterling, and others.
£12.30
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imagine Math 8: Dreaming Venice
Book SynopsisThis eighth volume of Imagine Math is different from all the previous ones. The reason is very clear: in the last two years, the world changed, and we still do not know what the world of tomorrow will look like. Difficult to make predictions. This volume has a subtitle Dreaming Venice. Venice, the dream city of dreams, that miraculous image of a city on water that resisted for hundreds of years, has become in the last two years truly unreachable. Many things tie this book to the previous ones. Once again, this volume also starts like Imagine Math 7, with a homage to the Italian artist Mimmo Paladino who created exclusively for the Imagine Math 8 volume a new series of ten original and unique works of art dedicated to Piero della Francesca. Many artists, art historians, designers and musicians are involved in the new book, including Linda D. Henderson and Marco Pierini, Claudio Ambrosini and Davide Amodio. Space also for comics and mathematics in a Disney key. Many applications, from Origami to mathematical models for world hunger. Particular attention to classical and modern architecture, with Tullia Iori.As usual, the topics are treated in a way that is rigorous but captivating, detailed and full of evocations. This is an all-embracing look at the world of mathematics and culture.Table of ContentsPart I Homage to Mimmo Paladino: 1 Michele Emmer, 8 Works by Mimmo Paladino.- Part II Dreaming in Venice: 2 Michele Emmer, Dreaming Venice.- 3 Sandro G. Franchini, The Napoleonic Fresco in Palazzo Loredan, Thinking of the Bicentennial.- 4 Giovanni Zarotti, MOSE, the Defence System to Safeguard Venice and its Lagoon.- Part III Art and Mathematics: 5 Marco Andreatta, The Rise of Abstractionism: Art and Mathematics.- 6 Clemena Antonova, Aestheticizing an Einsteinian World: The Idea of Space-time in Russian Literary Theory and in Art Criticism.- 7 Michele Emmer, Cagli, Olson, Coxeter.- 8 Emanuela Fiorelli, A Fault in the Order: Thoughts on Frayed Wires.- 9 Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Multivalent Fourth Dimension and the Impact of Claude Bragdon’s A Primer of Higher Space on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art.- 10 Martin Kemp, “Where Natural Law Holds No Sway”. Geometrical Optics and Divine Light in Dante, Michelangelo and Raphael.- 11 Marco Pierini, On The Classification and Recording of Colours According to the Methods of the Painter Adolfo Ferraris: A Brief Note.- 12 Anthony Phillips, Colored Figurative Tilings in Pre-Incan Textiles.- 13 Tony Robbin, The Artistic (and Practical) Utility of Hyperspace.- 14 Carla Scagliosi, From Vision to Perception: Chardin’s Eighteenth Century Cultural and Scientific Approach to Painting (and Soap Bubbles).- Part IV Architecture and Mathematics: 15 Michele Emmer and Fulvio Wirz, Andrea Palladio and Zaha Hadid.- Tullia Iori, 16 Sergio Musmeci and the Calculation of the Form.- 17 Enrico Giusti, Twenty Years of Il Giardino di Archimede.- Part V Design and Mathematics: 18 George W. Hart, The Multifaceted Abraham Sharp.- 19 Giordano Bruno, Massimo Ciafrei, Claudia Iannilli, Giacomo Fabbri, and Marzia Lupi, Learning by Metadesigning.- Part VI Homage to Roger Penrose: 20 Michele Emmer, A Little Homage to Roger Penrose.- Part VII Mathematics and Physics: 21 Amaury Mouchet, Identity and Difference: How Topology Helps to Understand Quantum Indiscernability.- 22 Denis Weaire, Stefan Hutzler, Ali Irannezhad and Kym Cox, Physics in a Small Bedroom.- Part VIII Mathematics and Applications: 23 Maurizio Falcone, The Train of Artificial Intelligence.- 24 Paolo Marcellini and Emanuele Paolini, Origami and Fractal Solutions of Differential Systems.- 25 Gian Marco Todesco, The Tangled Allure of Recursion.- 26 Marcela Villarreal, Desert Locusts: Can Mathematical Models Help to Control Them?.- Part IX Literature and Mathematics: 27 Marco Abate, Soul Searchin’.- 28 Francesca M. Dovetto, Geometric Metaphors and Linguistic Genealogy.- 29 Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, A Mathematical Physicist in Hell. Galileo on the Geometry of Dante's Inferno.- 30 Luca Viganò, Don’t Tell Me the Cybersecurity Moon is Shining... Cybersecurity Show and Tell.- Part X Music and Mathematics: 31 Claudio Ambrosini, Sounds, Numbers and Other Fancies.- 32 Davide Amodio, Euler and Music Musing Euler’s Identity.- 33 Francesco Ciccone, The Shapes of Violin.- Part XI Women and Mathematics: 34 Chiara de Fabritiis, Women, Academia, Math: an Ephemeral Golden Braid.- 35 Elisabetta Strickland, Women in Charge of Mathematics.- Part XII Comics and Mathematics: 36 Valerio Held , Without Title.- 37 Roberto Natalini and Andrea Plazzi, A Comics & Science Experience.- 38 Alberto Saracco, Is Math Useful?.
£31.99
Dover Publications Inc. Fantastic Ornament Series Two
Book SynopsisAbounding in cherubs, nymphs, soldiers, kings, dragons, and other flamboyant motifs, this compilation of ornamental designs was originally published in Paris during the 1840s. The extravagant images are based on a wide variety of historical examples that date back as far as the 1500s and include imaginative renderings by Watteau and Dürer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes.Professional and amateur artists and designers as well as cardmakers and scrapbookers will find this compilation a practical resource of versatile and royalty-free art. This volume is the successor to Dover Publications'' Fantastic Ornament, another modern reprint of a rare nineteenth-century publication.
£6.49
Silvana Design History Handbook
Book SynopsisThis book, dedicated to the history of design from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, is committed to drawing guidelines for the development of this discipline, offering a synthetic vision of the subject and, at the same time, highlighting elements for future investigations. If it's true that the history of artefacts and objects has always accompanied that of man, punctuated by turns occurring with the acquisition of technological innovations, it is in the mid-nineteenth century that we can retrace historically the professional figure of the designer, thus marking the birth of modern and contemporary design. The subject is branched and composite, embracing many disciplines: in addition to the field of furniture - which often exemplifies the broadest lines of design research in an excellent way - other sectors are considered here, from technical objects to graphics, from fashion to car design. Particular attention is reserved for the influence of the art world, with all its array of thought references that has constantly permeated the birth of design projects.
£31.50
University of Minnesota Press Bauhaus Weaving Theory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"T’ai Smith’s careful opening up of the theoretical space between ‘craft’ and ‘medium’ will be an important intervention into discussions of medium specificity in the arts of the twentieth century. Attuned to the historical specificity of the practice, gender roles, and new possibilities for mediation in the Weimar period, she gives a compelling account of how the practical and theoretical concerns of weaving were negotiated discursively as well." —Frederic J. Schwartz, University College London "This is the first scholarly analysis of the theoretical writing by the women weavers of the Bauhaus and as such fills a huge gap in the literature about the work of women artists at the school and the role and evolution of a feminized craft within the institution’s history. This book functions as not only a history of the weaving workshop, but also a nuanced history of the Bauhaus through the lens of creative practice." —Elissa Auther, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs"Smith’s account yields important insights for the history of modernism as well as the art world’s current fascination with textiles and fiber art. A welcome resource for any scholar of modernism and a crucial lens on contemporary textile art."—Art Papers"This book of theoretical essays uncovers a rarely spotlighted yet deeply significant creative process within the Bauhaus movement."—Metropolis"An edifying and overdue investigation of the weavers’ far-reaching contributions."—American Craft"A fascinating book that should interest professionals and amateurs alike."—CHOICE"Compelling research."—Crafts Magazine"An important schoalarly work for anyone interested in the history of fiber art, weaving, and the discourse about art vs. medium-specific craft."—Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot"Bauhaus Weaving Theory proves to be foundational in rethinking weaving; it is a remarkable work of scholarship, pellucid and engaging."—Journal of Modern CraftTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Textiles, Text, and a Medium-Specific Craft1. Pictures Made of Wool: Weaving Labor in the Workshop2. Toward a Modernist Theory of Weaving: The Use of Textiles in Architectural Space3. The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography 4. Weaving as Invention: Patenting Theories of AuthorshipConclusion: On Weaving, On WritingNotesIndex
£22.79
Transcript Verlag Teaching Research in Design: Guidelines for
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of understandings. This is especially true for practice-based design research. Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan Moritsch and Agnes Raschauer discuss how the concept of learning by research can be integrated into product design studio teaching. They show different international approaches for integrating research into teaching and contrast the areas of design research with scientific standards. The book features study results that helped generate both a general orientation for research in design education and guidelines for students of how to integrate research into their project work.
£31.19
Lars Muller Publishers Designing Japan
Book Synopsis'Designing Japan' presents renowned designer Kenya Hara’s vision of how his industry can support Japan in crafting a future founded on a unique philosophy of beauty as well as crowd-sourced wisdom from around the world. A master collaborator, meticulous organiser, and globally conscious innovator, Hara draws on more than three decades of participations in design work and exhibition curating, as well as deep professional interaction with creators from many fields. In 'Designing Japan' Hara reveals methods that make publicly accessible aesthetic inquiries of how this island nation will proceed as its population ages, other nations take over manufacturing, and technology develops. Illustrations and examples recognise successful problem-solving through design, proving that it is a living, changing industry that remains relevant not in spite of, but as a partner to, advancing technology.
£22.40
Oro Editions A Sign Is
Book SynopsisThe book blends historical overview, graphic taxonomy, and design criticism on 11 signage types, ranging from signs that say no, to pharmacy signs, and all in-between.
£24.26
Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Anthropology Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisDesign is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design thinking and anthropological research.This book is written by anthropologists who actively participate in the development of design anthropology. Comprising both cutting-edge explorations and theoretical reflections, it provides a much-needed introduction to the concepts, methods, practices and challenges of the new field. Design Anthropology moves from observation and interpretation to collaboration, intervention and co-creation. Its practitioners participate in multidisciplinary design teams working towards concrete solutions for problems that are sometimes ill-defined. The authors address the critical potential of design anthropology in a wide range of design activities across the globe and query the impact of design on the discipliTrade Review"Design Anthropology will interest those engaged at the intersections of anthropology and design and, indeed, engineering and science and other future-making practices, and in years to come it will be an interesting document of a moment in intellectual history. - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - Eeva Berglund There is significant demand for a text such as this from industry and academia alike, as well as from students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels ... Even the short blurbs about contributors are a useful resource ... [The book also features] a well-rounded bibliography ... [and] an attractive series of colour photographs and diagrams. - Journal of Design History Designers and anthropologists have long worked together but the broader questions of how design and anthropology both inform and contextualize each other as contemporary projects remain very much in flux. This volume alone will not settle the matter but its broad view valuably maps out the terrain and illustrates what is at stake. It collects case studies, thoughtful reflections, and provocative proposals that do not simply illustrate the richness of this encounter but sketch the transformative conceptual impact that it has for both sides. For all of us who work, think, teach, write, and dwell in this exciting interdisciplinary space, these essays will be of tremendous value. - Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, USA Design Anthropology is essential reading for anthropologists who want to make a difference in the world and designers who seek to understand the world in which they wish to make a difference. - Sarah Pink, Professor at the Design Research Institute and the School of Media and Communications at RMIT, Australia."Table of ContentsDesign Anthropology: Practices, Perspectives and Potentials - Ton Otto (Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark), Rachel Charlotte Smith (Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark) and Wendy Gunn (Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark)Section One: Concepts, Methods and PracticesThe Social Life of Concepts in Design Anthropology - Adam Drazin (Institute of Anthropology, University College London, UK)Transforming Knowledge-pieces into Design Concepts: Creative Montage at Design Workshops - Mette Kjaersgaard (Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark)Tools and Movements of Engagement: Design Anthropology as a Particular Style of Knowing - Kyle Kilbourn (Institute of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark)Section Two: The Materiality of DesignDesigning by Doing: Building Bridges in the Highlands of Borneo - Ian J. Ewart, (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK) Anatomical Design: Making and Using Three-dimensional Models of the Human Body - Elizabeth Hallam (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK and School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford UK)Designing Heritage for a Digital Culture - Rachel Charlotte Smith (Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark)Section Three: The Temporality of DesignFrom Description to Correspondence: Anthropology in Real Time Caroline Gatt and Tim Ingold (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK)Conceptions of Innovation and Practice(S) of Inhabiting Indoor Climate - Wendy Gunn (Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark) and Christian Clausen (Spire, University of Southern Denmark, and Danish Technical University) Ethnographies of the Possible - Joachim Halse (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design)Section Four: The Relationality of DesignGenerating 'Publics' Through Design Research - Brendon Clark (Interactive Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)Bridging Disciplines and Sectors: An Industry-academic Partnership in Design Anthropology - Christina Wasson and Crysta Metcalf (Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas and Motorola Mobility Inc., USA) Decolonizing Design Innovation: Design Anthropology, Critical Anthropology and Indigenous Knowledge - Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall (Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)EpilogueEthnography and Design, Ethnography in Design ... Ethnography by Design - George E. Marcus and Keith M. Murphy (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA)ReferencesIndex
£29.99
Dover Publications Inc. Decorative Alphabets and Initials Lettering
Book Synopsis91 complete alphabets â medieval to modern â 3,927 decorative initials, including Victorian novelty and Art Nouveau.
£16.57
Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Thinking
Book SynopsisDesign thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes. Not just for architects or product developers, design thinking can be applied across many disciplines to solve real-world problems and reconcile dilemmas. It is a tool that may trigger inspiration and the imagination, and lead to innovative ideas that are responsive to the needs and issues of stakeholders.Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone will assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday. It renders accessible the creative problem-solving abilities that we all possess by providing a dynamic framework and practical tools for thinking imaginatively and critically. Every aspect of design thinking is explained and analyzed together with insights on navigating through the process.Application of designTrade Review"Andrew Pressman’s exemplary new book is an accessible, readable, and eminently usable introduction to design thinking. The book encourages individual experimentation and flexibility, empowering readers to make the design thinking process their own." — Marilys R. Nepomechie, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Florida International UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1: Processes 1. Design Thinking Overview 2. Building Blocks of Design Thinking 3. Tools and Strategies Part 2: Applications 4. Politics and Society 5. Business 6. Health and Science 7. Law 8. Writing Index
£32.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Collage and Architecture
Book SynopsisCollage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture.Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago, collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture, Jennifer A. E. Shields explores its influence, using the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Daniel Libeskind, and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. This new edition includes: A stronger focus on contemporary practices, including digital methods; New designers and architects, including Marshall Brown, WAI Architecture Think Tank, and Tatiana Bilbao, bringing their methods and work to life; An expanded global and diverse perspective of architecture as collagTable of ContentsPart 1. Collage Methodologies In Architectural Analysis + Design Speculation 1.1 Papier Collé and Found Materials - Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand / Bernhard Hoesli / Eduardo Chillida 1.2 Collage-drawing - Constructs Geometric Order / Mies van der Rohe / Daniel Libeskind / Ben Nicholson / James Corner / Mathur/da Cunha / Constructs: Narratives of social order / The Metabolists and Associates / Archigram / Superstudio / Rem Koolhaas / Time[scape]lab / Nathan Williams 1.3 Photomontage - Photo Fragments: Found Paper / Nils-Ole Lund / David Wild / Marshall Brown / Photo Pragments: Found Pixels / FELD studio / WAI Architecture Think Tank / Photo Fragments: Constructed / Gordon Matta-Clark / Mary Miss / Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT) Part 2. Contemporary Practice: Architecture as Collage 2.1 Introduction: Twentieth Century 2.2 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman 2.3 WEISS/MANFREDI 2.4 Point Supreme 2.5 Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
£35.99
Zupagrafika Slup: The Polish Poster Column
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£23.99
Yale University Press Fashion and Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Fashion and Politics makes for an insightful and thorough investigation of the two for all those interested in exploring the way hard politics can play out in the soft power of culture."— Rena Niamh Smith, Socialist Review“The book features 120 colour images, making it a brilliant combination of both intensely academic scholarship and a visually interesting piece to have on display...Fashion and Politics is engaging and thought provoking, and could be read and reviewed multiple times yielding new insights upon repeated reading.”—Dr. Andrea J. Severson, The Journal of Dress History “Not only thought-provoking but also beautifully presented and integrated by a rich body of precious visual references, Fashion and Politics is undeniably an essential reading…It is a thorough, rigorous and insightful study of this crucial relationship from a variety of perspectives, which can open further and much needed conversations on the multi-faceted nature of fashion’s deep political dimension."—Flavia Loscialpo, Fashion Theory“Provides a primer on the major necessary considerations for a politically engaged fashion. Its uniqueness comes in the form of refraining from frontal attack on fashion’s well-known atrocities. Rather it focuses on the complex ways that fashion might help support hegemonic power or help us articulate agency to resist it.”—Maylin M. Hernandez, New Political Science
£35.62
HarperCollins Publishers Higher Design and Manufacture second edition
Book SynopsisExam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Design and ManufactureFirst Teaching: 2018, First Exam: 2019The Higher Design & Manufacture Course Notes help teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course.Full coverage of the new Higher course specifications with list of learning intentionsAttractive layout with clear text featuresKey questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intentionWhat the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secureEnd of unit material unit assessment, exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessmentCourse Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance.
£20.99
Oxford University Press Twentieth Century Design
Book SynopsisThe most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace - such as the Coca-Cola bottle and the McDonald's logo. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture and explores themes such as national identity, the rise of multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. In the history which emerges designis clearly seen for what it is: the powerful and complex expression of aesthetic, social, economic, political, and technological forces.Trade ReviewTwentieth-Century Design is extremely thoroughly researched * Art Review, April 1997 *for a good general introduction to the subject you could not go very far wrong with Jonathan Woodham's excellent Twentieth Century Design ... Yet another example of the impressive new Oxford History of Art series. * The Bookseller *Fully and often surprisingly illustrated, carefully annotated and captioned, each combines a historical overview with a nicely opinionated individual approach. * Independent on Sunday *Woodham gives a deftly organised, extremely cool-headed account of the ideological spoon-fights behind the product ranges of modern capitalism: his range of reference and eye for detail are superb. * The Guardian *a superb piece of publishing * Rupert Christiansen, Spectator *...a valuable contribution to the field of design studies, and it deserves careful attention. Woodham is one of many intelligent writers in the new wave of British design history. His book...is likely to become a benchmark for measuring the aspirations and accomplishments of the movement. His book is a reasonable and valuable exploration of design history that is not easily falsified. - Richard Buchanan. Journal of Design History. Vol 11 1998.
£20.24
Yale University Press Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
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£38.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Theatre Designers
Book SynopsisFifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance. Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design, as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored, including opera, dance, Broadway and West End commercial theatre, avant-garde performance, and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer, including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist's style, aesthetics, and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio, Ferdinando Bibiena, Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia, Table of Contents1. Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1554[?]) 2. Inigo Jones (1573–1652) 3. Giacomo Torelli (1608–1678) 4. Ferdinando Bibiena (1657–1743) 5. Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg (1740–1812) 6. Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (1782–1868) 7. Richard Wagner (1813–1883) 8. André Antoine (1858–1943) 9. Viktor Simov (1858–1935) 10. Adolphe Appia (1862–1928) 11. Léon Bakst (1866–1924) and Alexandre Benois (1870–1960) 12. Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) 13. Joseph Urban (1872–1933) 14. Alexandra Exter (1882–1949) 15. Emil Pirchan (1884–1957) 16. Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964) 17. Robert Edmond Jones (1887–1954) 18. Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) 19. Liubov Popova (1889–1924) 20. Traugott Müller (1895–1944) 21. Caspar Neher (1897–1962) 22. Boris Aronson (1898–1980) 23. Nikolai Okhlopkov (1900–1967) 24. Jo Mielziner (1901–1976) 25. Irene Sharaff (1910–1993) 26. Jean Rosenthal (1912–1969) 27. Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914–2003) 28. Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) 29. Jocelyn Herbert (1917–2003) 30 Wieland Wagner (1917–1966) 31. Josef Svoboda (1920–2002) 32. Ralph Koltai (1924–2018) 33. John Bury (1925–2000) 34. Ming Cho Lee (1930–2020) 35. Sally Jacobs (1932–2020) 36. David Borovsky (1934–2006) 37. Jerzy Gurawski (1935–2022) 38. Jennifer Tipton (1937–) 39. Robert Wilson (1941–) 40. Hélio Eichbauer (1941–2018) 41. Richard Peduzzi (1943–) 42. William Dudley (1947–) 43. Jim Clayburgh (1949–) 44. Wendall K. Harrington (1950–) 45. Anna Viebrock (1951–) 46. Liu Xinglin (1953–) 47. George Tsypin (1954–) 48. William Kentridge (1955–) 49. Bert Neumann (1960–2015) 50. Franc Aleu (1966–)
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Taylor & Francis Encountering Craft
Book SynopsisThis book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as âcraft.â It fosters an understanding of how methodology, across disciplines, contributes to analytical frameworks within which the subject matter of craft is defined and constructed. The contributions are written by scholars whose work focuses on different craft practices across geographies. Each chapter contains detailed case study material along with theoretical analysis of the research challenges confronted. They provide valuable insight into how methodologies emerge in response to particular research conditions and contexts, addressing issues of decolonization, representation, institutionalization, and power. Informed by anthropology, art history and design, this volume facilitates interdisciplinary discussion and touches on some of the most critical issues related to craft research today.Table of Contents1. IntroductionChandan Bose and Mira Mohsini2. Critical Cloth: The Contemporary Toile de Jouy Print as Postcolonial Critique in Art and DesignStephanie Sabo3. On crafting history in a time without craftinessSarah Teasley4. Narrating indigo: Telling and re-telling subjectivities of craft in IndiaAarti Kawlra5. Disentangling history and practice in the weaving and dyeing course at Kyoto City University of ArtsElena Cinelli6. Prolegomena for World War I craft therapy for American injured soldiers and Reconstruction AidesJennifer Way7. Theorising Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodologyHinekura Smith 8. Encountering gendered sociality on field: People and objects in KashmirNikita Kaul 9. "Writing Practices" and Writing "Practices": Observation and struggle in fieldnotes about artisanal workAlanna Cant10. CodaChandan Bose and Mira Mohsini
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Taylor & Francis Design for Policy
Book SynopsisDesign for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on contributions from a range of the worldâs leading academics, design practitioners and public managers, it provides a rich, detailed analysis of design as a tool for addressing public problems and capturing opportunities for achieving better and more efficient societal outcomes. In his introduction, Christian Bason suggests that design may offer a fundamental reinvention of the art and craft of policy making for the twenty-first century. From challenging current problem spaces to driving the creative quest for new solutions and shaping the physical and virtual artefacts of policy implementation, design holds a significant yet largely unexplored potential. The book is structured in three main sections, covering the global context of the rise of design for policy, in-depth case studies of the application of design to policy making, and a guide to concrete design tools for policy intent, insight, ideation and implementation. The summary chapter lays out a future agenda for design in government, suggesting how to position design more firmly on the public policy stage. Design for Policy is intended as a resource for leaders and scholars in government departments, public service organizations and institutions, schools of design and public management, think tanks and consultancies that wish to understand and use design as a tool for public sector reform and innovation.Trade Review'This book masterfully combines cutting-edge research, findings from practice, and real-world examples of how design approaches are being used to improve societal outcomes across the globe. It introduces new avenues for pursuing design-based policies and is an essential resource for anyone exploring social innovation and design processes as a tool for meaningful public sector reform. Christian Bason has successfully delivered a volume that captures the essence of design and social innovation in policy development and offers useful lessons for those faced with the challenge of serving in the twenty-first century.' Jocelyne Bourgon, President, Public Governance International 'Design for Policy is a valuable and fresh insight into policymaking. It underscores the urgent need to bring design to the very heart of modern public policy. Through highly pertinent and illuminating examples from a variety of fields, this book shows that it is possible to transform the policy making process and make it much more innovative. I hope that policymakers across Europe will read it, so that they can become policy designers - and we can shape together the future we aspire to.’ Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner, Research, Innovation & Science ’Can design improve the ways we address such 'super-wicked' challenges as climate change, energy precarity, or public health? It's a big ask, but this highly intelligent book makes a convincing case. Its succinct case studies show the ways that design has become a powerful tool for public administrations around the world. Design for Policy does not over-promise. Its clear and well-balanced texts illustrate the potential but also the limits of design when societal issues are massive, integrated and highly complex - all at the same time. Design, it emerges, is helping to drive transformation in the ways we govern. This important book marks a shift in models of public policymaking: from problem-solving, to envisioning; from service dTable of ContentsDesign for Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Projection Design for Theatre and Live
Book SynopsisProjection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examining the principles of media for the stage in a manner that is accessible for both beginning designers and advanced designers dabbling in projections for the first time.This introductory text covers concepts and tools for designing, techniques to help readers tap into their creativity, and the core skills required of this field: problem solving, project management, and effective communication. Focusing exclusively on design and creativity, this book encourages individuals to leap into the creative design process before facing any perceived hurdles of learning everything technical about media delivery systems, cueing systems, projectors, cables, computer graphics, animation, and video production. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance is a reminder that, from the invention of photography to the enormous variety of electronic media that exist today, the ways projection designers can enhance a theatrical production are limitless.Written in an accessible style, this book is a valuable resource for students of Projection Design as well as emerging professionals. Its focus on design and creativity will restore the confidence of individuals who may have been daunted by technical hurdles and will encourage the creativity of those who may have been disappointed with their efforts in this field of design in the past.Table of Contents1. Discovery 2. Research 3. Visual Style 4. Storyboard 5. Framing 6. Motion 7. Animatic 8. Cueing 9. Content 10. Jargon
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Taylor & Francis Ecologies of Inception
Book SynopsisResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentialityan object's ability to changein architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text promptsthrough a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplinesa collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practTable of ContentsI. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The Design Culture Reader
Book SynopsisDesign is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems).The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas â especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences oTrade Review'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design History'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsSection 1: Materials and Methods 1. Karl Marx (1867) 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret'. 2. Jonathan Crary (1989) 'Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory'. 3. Vilem Flusser (1993) 'About the word Design'. 4. Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Benjamin Gianni and Scott Weir (1994) 'Queers in (Single-Family) Space'. 5. Pauline Madge (1997) 'Ecological Design: A New Critique'. 6. Hal Foster (2002) 'The ABCs of Contemporary Design'. Section 2: Actors and Agents 7. Marcel Mauss (1934) 'Techniques of the Body'. 8. Michel Foucault (1982) 'Space, Knowledge, and Power'. 9. Friedrich A. Kittler (1986) 'Introduction' to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. 10. Lana F. Rakow (1988) 'Women and the Telephone: the gendering of a communication technology'. 11. Ellen Lupton (1996) 'Power Tool for the Dining Room: The Electric Carving Knife'. 12. Tobin Siebers (2003) 'What can disability studies learn from the culture wars?' Section 3: Object Life 13. Stuart Cosgrove (1984) 'The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare'. 14. Mihay Csikszentmihalyi (1991) 'Design and Order in Everyday Life'. 15. Celik, Zeynep (1996) 'Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers'. 16. Celine Rosselin (1999) 'The Ins and Outs of the Hall: A Parisian Example'. 17. Svetlana Boym (2001) 'Immigrant Souvenirs'. Section 4: Sense and Sensibilities 18. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1983) 'Shop Windows'. 19. Nicholson Baker (1986) from The Mezzanine. 20. C. Nadia Seremetakis (1996) 'The Memory of the Senses, Part 1: Marks of the Transitory'. 21. Koichi Iwabuchi (1998) 'Marketing "Japan": Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze'. 22. Jonathan Sterne (2003) 'Hello'. Section 5: Designing (in) the World 23. John McHale (1969) 'An Ecological Overview'. 24. Krzysztof Wodiczko (1999) 'Designing for the City of Strangers'. 25. Celeste Olalquiaga (1999) 'The Crystal Palace'. 26. Tony Fry (1999) 'From War to Warring' 27. Ashoke Chatterjee (2005) 'Design in India: The Experience of Transition' Section 6: Design Time 28. Siegfried Giedion (1948) 'Anonymous History' 29. Evan Watkins (1993) 'Social Position and the Art of Automobile Maintenance' 30. Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour) (1995) 'The Past is no longer out-of-date' 31. N. Katherine Hayles (1999) 'The materiality of informatics: Audiotape and Its Cultural 32. Peter Hitchcock (2003) 'Chronotope of the Shoe'
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Design History
Book SynopsisGlobalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as networks' or flows' and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale. They place these concrete things into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Among the varied topics included are: the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of import substitution' German design in the context of empire handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey Australian fashions employing ethnic' motifs an experimental UK-Ghanaian design partnership Chinese Table of ContentsSelected Contents: Preface Introduction: Towards Global Design History Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson 1. The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of a Community of Taste Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Luca Molà Response by Dana Leibsohn 2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections Anne Gerritsen Response by Beverly Lemire 3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 John Styles Response by Prasannan Parthasarathi 4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan Christine M. E. Guth Response by Maxine Berg 5. The Globalization of the Fashion City Christopher Breward Response by Simona Segre Reinach 6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions Dipti Bhagat Response by Angus Lockyer 7. ‘From the Far Corners’: Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s Michael J. Golec Response by Anne Balsamo 8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 John Maciuika Response by Paul Betts 9. Where in the World is Design?: The Case of India, 1900-1945 Victor Margolin Response by Christopher Pinney 10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design Gyökan Karakus Response by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. 11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design Peter McNeil Response by Shehnaz Suterwalla 12. Analyzing Social Networking Websites: The Design of Happy Network in China Basile Zimmermann Response by Ngai-Ling Sum 13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture Jilly Traganou Response by Lucia Allais 14. e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market Tom Barker and Ashley Hall Response by Shannon May Bibliography Resource Guide
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Brand Atlas
Book Synopsis"Carrying through Alina Wheeler's trademark of beautiful layout and design, the book takes you on a journey through just about every important element of branding you could think of, from passion to positioning. " The Influential Marketing Blog (May 2011) A company's brand is its most valuable asset.Trade Reviewuser-friendly approach to aggregate and simplify the science behind branding essential principles of branding are broken down into basic step-by-step concepts. (Finance & Management, April 2011).Table of Contents1 Dynamics 10 Brand Landscape Global Sourcing 12 Speed 14 Design Thinking 16 Word of Mouth 18 Conversation 20 Interconnected 22 Open Source 24 Social Networks 26 Experience 28 Passion 30 Transparency 32 The Cloud 34 Sustainability 36 Mobility 38 Crowdsourcing 40 Free 42 Placemaking 44 Choice 46 2 Intelligence 48 Brand Basics Brand as Identity 50 Vision 52 Needs and Desire 54 Touchpoints 56 Purpose 58 Spirit and Soul 60 Perception 62 Authenticity 64 Positioning 66 Stakeholders 68 Big Idea 70 Brand as Asset 72 Brand Extensions 74 Brand Alignment 76 Brand Architecture 78 Recognition 80 Trademarks 82 3 Drive 84 Brand Management Names 84 Good and Different 86 Branding 90 Simplicity 92 Culture 94 Collaboration 96 Time Management 98 80/20 100 Competencies 102 Insight 104 Focus 106 Customer Service 108 Customer-centric 110 Growth 112 Metrics 114 Fight or Flight 116 Onliness Exercise 118 Perceptual Mapping 120 SWOT Exercise 122 Flow 124 4 Details 126 Brand Questions 128 Project Management 130 Brand Decisions 131 Branding Process 132 Big Idea Process 133 Bibliography 134 Credits 137 Index 138 Gratitude 141 Authors’ Reflections 142 Diagram Matrix 143 About the Authors 144
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Dover Publications Inc. Creating Celtic Animal Designs
Book SynopsisMany instruction books just teach how to duplicate designs without providing any clues for the next step ? making your own! This unique guide features the highly effective Aon method, a technique for creating your own original designsrather than copying examples. It''s easy to comprehend, with simple step-by-step instructions that focus on incorporating animal forms into Celtic patterns and designs.Creating Celtic Animal Designs builds onauthor Cari Buziak''s experience teaching and writing about Celtic patterns and their creation, meaning, and history. Her nine in-depth examples encompass both traditional and contemporary renderings of animals ? hounds, lions, hares, birds, and other creatures. Cari demonstrates the freehand drawing of Celtic knots and moves beyond the basics to show how to manipulate and develop stand-alone patterns into panels and combinations. Artists, designers, art instructors, tattoo artists, and anyone who appreciates Celtic designs will find this book a treasury of both instruction and inspiration.
£13.04
Stackpole Books Brush Pen Calligraphy
Book SynopsisStep-by-step instructions show you how to use brush pens to make professional-looking letters and numbers. Five styles of modern calligraphy, plus ways to personalize your designs. Try more advanced techniques combining lettering and illustrations, and the many project suggestions for cards, invitations, signs, and more.
£17.09
