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Book SynopsisInside this book you ll find 30 creative art activities inspired by the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos. Fun, exotic, and full of psychedelic details, these intricate drawings are sure to spark your imagination and awaken your inner artist. Express yourself with fascinating images based on Day of the Dead sugar skulls. You ll love coloring this mystical folk art, from dancing skeletons to traditional nichos and papel picado . The book also provides valuable advice on coloring and patterning techniques, plus some fully colored examples to get you started. Printed on high quality extra-thick paper, this inspiring coloring book for grownups is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors. Designed to eliminate bleed-through, each page is pre-perforated for easy removal and display."

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Book SynopsisThis is an essential practical guide for academics, researchers and professionals involved in the digital humanities, as well as designers working with them. It prepares readers from both fields for working together, outlining disciplinary perspectives and lessons learned from more than twenty years of experience, with over two dozen practical exercises. The central premise of the book is a timely one – that the twin disciplines of visual communication design and digital humanities (DH) are natural allies, with much to be gained for researchers, students and practitioners from both areas who are able to form alliances with those from the other side. The disciplines share a common fundamental belief in the extraordinary value of interdisciplinarity, which in this case means that the training, experience and inclinations from both fields naturally tend to coincide. The fields also share an interest in research that focuses on humanities questions and approaches, where the goal is to improve understanding through repeated observation and discussion. Both disciplines tend to be generative in nature, with the ultimate end in many cases of designing and creating the next generation of systems and tools, whether those be intended for dealing with information or communication. The interdisciplinary nature of this book is both a strength and a challenge. For those academics and practitioners who have worked with the other discipline, this will be a much-welcomed handbook of terminology, methods and activities. It will also be of interest to those who have read about, seen presented and used the outcomes of successful design and DH collaborations, and who might be interested in forming similar partnerships. However, for all they have in common, design and digital humanities also have significant differences. This book discusses these issues in the context of a variety of research projects as well as classroom activities that have been tried and tested. This book will provide both design and the digital humanities with a better mutual understanding, with the practical intention of working effectively together in ways that are productive and satisfying for everyone involved. Design education has a long history, a presence in many post-secondary institutions, and a robust market for educational and practice-based literature. The Digital Humanities community, in contrast, is much younger, but rising rapidly, both academically and within industry. Both design and DH are collaborative disciplines, with much in common in terms of vision, but with confusing overlap in terminology and ways-to-practice. The book describes and demonstrates foundational concepts from both fields with numerous examples, as well as projects, activities and further readings at the end of each chapter. It provides complete coverage of core design and DH principles, complete with illustrated case studies from cutting-edge interdisciplinary research projects. Design and the Digital Humanities offers a unique approach to mastering the fundamental processes, concepts, and techniques critical to both disciplines. It will be of interest to those who have been following previous work by bestselling authors in the fields of visual communication design and the digital humanities, such as Ellen Lupton, Steven Heller, Julianne Nyhan, Claire Warwick and Melissa Terras. This guide is suitable for use as an undergraduate or masters-level text, or as an in-the-field reference guide. Throughout the book, terms or concepts that may not be familiar to all readers are carefully spelled out with examples so that the text is as accessible as possible to non-technical readers from a range of disciplines.Table of ContentsIntroduction Selling the Value of Design The Epistemological Modes of Knowledge Production Change is scary i) Territory of Possible Engagements ii) Moving the Goalposts What expertise looks like i) Who are Designers? ii) Who are the Digital Humanists? iii) What Expertise in Collaboration Looks Like EXERCISES: Meaning Creating understanding Defining DH i) What do Digital Humanists Do? Defining design i) Is There Such Thing As Good Design? If So, What Is It? ii) Why Design Matters iii) Critical Design iv) What do Designers Do? What is Publishable Case study 1: how design students define themselves EXERCISES: Form and text Misunderstandings Terms from DH i) Text Encoding ii) Structured Data iii) Federated Data iv) Linked Data: A Brief Historical Foray into the Memex Terms from Design i) Sketches Types of sketches ii) Three Forms of User-Centered Design iii) Design Thinking iv) Reframing v) Gestalt Claim Games i) Research ii) Projects and Research Projects iii) Image iv) Text v) Prototypes vi) Metaphors and Other Figures of Speech vii) Iteration Case study: what's a book? EXERCISES: Collections and territories Meeting points Humanities visualization i) Why Graphical Representation? ii) Rich Prospect Browsing iii) Proposing New RPB Principles and Tools Principle of Participation Principle of Association Principle of Contexuality Principle of Pluralism iv) A Critical Challenge to the Power Embedded in Prospect and Refuge Case studies: DH-based visualizations created by undergraduate design students i) BigSee ii) Structured Surfaces iii) Results iv) What We’d Change Case studies: Decision Support Systems i) Descriptive Reflections ii) Design Z (Gears) iii) Design A+1 (Bars & Sliders) iv) Design B (Lines & Dots) v) Analytical Reflection vi) Feminist RPB in Manufacturing DSS vii) Critical Reflection Using Feminist HCI viii) Reflection Using a Critical Design Framework EXERCISES: Data visualization and interface design Working better together: interdisciplinary research in practice Developing interdisciplinary researchers i) Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Researchers ii) Masters-Level Interdisciplinary Researchers iii) PhD-Level Interdisciplinary Researchers iv) Resource Needs v) Critical Non-Tangibles What is Respectable? Project management for interdisciplinary researchers i) Ways of Collaborating ii) Delegation vs Collaboration iii) Cross Disciplinary Lessons Learned Managing people who are sensitive to their surroundings i) Designers as Paramecium Tenacity, or Sticking it Out Repetition: Same Shit, Different Pile Comparison: One Person’s Poison is Another Person’s Nutrient Community: A World of Paramecia Changing the World From Bad to Worse: What if the Choice is Between Greater Poison and Lesser Poison? From Good to Better: Choosing Among Nutrients Discontinuity, or Sudden Death Unanticipated Side-Effects Reality Check: Taking a Few Roughs with a Smooth Case study: Interdisciplinary research project charter i) The Project Charter ii) Most Recent Additions and Considerations EXERCISES: Planning Our Journey Continues From the Digital to the Physical Design for Peace and Reconciliation Collaborative Design Concepts Lab Final thoughts EXERCISES: Intellectual territories

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection with its origins in the 2018 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, hosted by the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, the overarching focus of which was on 'TIME'. The book includes contributions from some scholars who were not involved in the conference but whose voices are important to the conversation. T-Squared: Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design has three primary aims. First, it reveals and illuminates the extensive and explicit relationship between the research that shapes art, architecture and design practices, and the studio prompts and assignments that are developed by faculty for students engaging the creative disciplines. Second, it demonstrates that pedagogical inquiry and invention can be a (radical) research endeavour that can also become an evolutionary agent for faculty, students, institutions and communities. Third, it makes available to a larger audience a set of innovative ideas and exercises that have until now been known to limited numbers of students and faculty, hidden behind the walls of studio courses and institutions. This book will appeal to anyone interested in design thinking and design process as well as to architects, architectural educators and architecture students who may particularly identify in it stirrings of a new world order and a call to arms. Each chapter of T-Squared is separated into two parts: THEORY (T1) and TACTICS (T2). In T1, the authors offer mini-manifestos about topics that relate to their professional interests and efforts. In T2, the authors delineate exercises that reflect the ideascapes and methodologies presented in T1. The exercises in T2 are adapted for the reader from assignments given to students enrolled in design studios at a variety of universities. In their current incarnation, they offer anyone with tenacity, imagination and an adventurous attitude towards architecture and design access to distinct sets of provocative questions, procedures and modes. The T2 offerings require the reader’s engagement and imagination and the rolling up of sleeves – while there may be steps to follow, many of the exercises read like Fluxus scores and require investment rather than obedience. A suspension of disbelief is required – but all seriously creative folk (like you, reader) understand that already. Primary readership will be among design educators and students looking for a window through which to view the ways design is being introduced, taught and positioned across disciplines and institutions, and to architects, architectural educators and architecture students.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Starting Up Front Porch (coffee) Samantha Krukowski Threshold In Media Res, or Beginning in the Middle of Things David Leatherbarrow Interiors Food for Thought Nikole Bouchard Pedagogical Pluralism Alberto de Salvatierra, Samantha Solano, Joshua Vermillion Informed Forms and Matters Negar Kalantar, Alireza Borhani Out of Control Jennifer Akerman Cultured Drawing Kathryn Strand Drawing the City Sandy Litchfield Scripting Space Brian Ambroziak The Literary Imagination Angeliki Sioli, Kristen Kelsch Overcoming Fear Chloé Briggs Horizon Volume and Being Peter P. Goché FACTUM 1 : 1 Federica Goffi Tendering a Tactile Tectonic John M. Reynolds The Mother of Invention Thomas Cline Winding Down Deck (bourbon) Samantha Krukowski Figures References About the Editor and Authors Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary art has a complex relationship to crisis. On the one hand, art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos, reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis, shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand, art’s complexity helps fathom the uncertainty of the world, question and challenge the order of things, and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being – to make new worlds. This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crises – including the climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic – and suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices, oriented from the perspective of Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Art making has always responded to the world; the essays in this collection explore how artists are adapting to a world in crisis. The contributions to this book are arranged in four sections: artistic responses; critical reflections, new curatorial approaches and the art school reimagined. Alongside the written chapters, three photographic essays provide specific examples of new visual forms in artistic practice under crisis conditions. The primary market for the book will be scholars and upper-level students of art and curating at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Specifically, the book will appeal to the burgeoning field of study around socially engaged art. Beyond the academic and student market, it will appeal to practicing artists and curators, especially those engaged in social practice and community-based art.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary Art and Crisis Grace – McQuilten and Daniel Palmer PART 1: ARTISTIC RESPONSES 1. Beyond the Dystopia-in-Progress: Rehearsing an Indigenized Future ‘Australia’ Through Public Art – Robert E.Walton and Claire G. Coleman 2. Weentayoothan – Which Way? – Vicki Couzens 3. The Space in Between Us: Photographic Portraiture, Social Distancing and Touch – Cherine Fahd 4. A Melting Landscape: Mapping the Eco-Acoustics of the Swiss Alps – Philip Samartzis 5. Survivalist Samplers: Restoring Sampling Traditions and Utopian Perspectives – Sera Waters 6. Presenting the News Anew – Alison Alder, Marian Crawford and Richard Harding (aka The News Network Project Australia: AA & MC & RH) 7. Practicing Utopias – Sophia Cai, Bigoa Chuol, Gabriela Georges, John Mashar with Tania Cañas and Bruno Catalán Visual Essay 1: Inland Sea – Heather Hesterman PART 2: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS 8. The Art of Giving Up: Contemporary Artists and Domestic Violence – Madeleine R. Clark 9. Refugees, Neighbours and the Question of Empathy: Jakkai Siributr’s There’s No Place – Zara Stanhope 10. The Thorny Question of Art and Economy – Nancy Mauro-Flude and Kate Rich 11. Imagine a World Without Zoonotic Viruses – Keely Macarow 12. Writing About Art from Behind an Inclined Rock (A Geological Allegory for the Third Millennium) – Susan Ballard Visual Essay 2: Lisbon Dreaming – Clare McCracken PART 3: NEW CURATORIAL APPROACHES 13. Amor Mundi: Towards a Curatorial Ethics for Climate Crisis – Tara McDowell 14. The Gentle Activism of ‘Bruised Food’: Art and Curation in Times of Crises – Marnie Badham and Francis Maravillas 15. Hong Kong’s Utopian Dream: Art, Nostalgia and Identity – Kelly Ka-Lai Chan 16. Thinking With, and Acting From, This Place: Caring In and Through Our Practices – Jacina Leong Visual Essay 3: Scribble Me This … – Benjamin Sheppard PART 4: THE ART SCHOOL REIMAGINED 17. Unsettling Projects: Keeping Art Schools Agile Through Dialogue and Disruption – Fiona Lee 18. Towards Community Praxis in Community-Oriented Art Education – Kelly Hussey-Smith Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisBring the magic of color and form into your everyday life. Color and form are powerful—and not just for creative work. When used purposefully, color and shape are tools we can use to help us manifest, attract the energy we want, and become our best selves. In this accessible guide, designer and intuitive Nicole Pivirotto breaks down properties of shapes and colors, the basics of getting started with magic, and spell ideas that use color and form, like color meditation and altar building. Whether you have an existing magic practice, want to develop one, or want to use the power of color and form in your creative work, this book is an essential companion to the magic of aesthetics. With gorgeous holographic foil on the cover and book page edges, it is also a beautiful gift for any contemporary seeker with a love of bold color and design. ACCESSIBLE APPROACH TO MAGIC: This book approaches magic as a flexible and empowering practice for manifestation, healing, and self-care. And there's no need to have any special tools to get started. This book shows how visual elements we interact with every day—color, shapes, and symbols—can help you to manifest and become your best self. It's a perfect entry to magic practice for creative types and a unique guide for those looking to infuse an existing practice with more color and creativity. SPELL IDEAS: In addition to overviews of the properties of colors, a library of magical symbols, and an introduction to magic practice, this book offers spell ideas to help you achieve a desired energy or state. All the spells are simple and most are easy to perform with everyday materials. Etch a candle with a symbol and burn to release its energy around you; or, create a custom symbol personalized to your unique intention. This book encourages getting creative, and offers plenty of practical examples to illustrate how you can tailor these spells to your interests and intentions. DISPLAY-WORTHY OBJECT: With shining foil-stamped accents, vibrant illustrations and photography, and a prismatic design, this book is a stunning addition to the coffee table or nightstand, and it makes a gorgeous gift. Perfect for: • modern mystics and those looking for gifts for them • color lovers, creatives, designers, and visual thinkers with a mystic mindset

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Book SynopsisA compact, portable drawing resource book of over 200 highly illustrated pages of sketching and drawing techniques, the book is crafted to be a companion tool which is tucked in your travel gear and referred to regularly. The book is durable with helpful color-coded pages to cross reference with demonstrated drawing tools. The book is organized into three Drawing Chapters: First, Tools +Techniques, from black and white to color drawings: Second, Methods, where perspective drawing rules are established, followed by Learning from The Masters to learn color theory and composition, then drawing Cityscapes + Landscapes, Aerial Perspectives, with demonstrations of Quick Draw and Slow Draw techniques: Third, Drawing as a Way of Thinking, where Analytical Sketching, Sequential Serial View drawings and Developing Design Proposals Using the Story Board Method are illustrated. This book is a tool for everyone - whether you are traveling the globe or drawing in your backyard. With a multitude of examples and helpful insights for both the professional and beginner, this book will help you take the world around you and Draw It.

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century is unthinkable without its past of unrestricted scaling in almost any way of life. A key driver of technological progress is mankind's ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, scale; processes at higher, or slower, speed, or to virtually apply more or less energy to something. This ability has been evident ever since we began to produce and represent art, yet it gained an entirely different dimension with the onset of industrialisation in the 19th century. This new book collects essays by fourteen artists, designers, engineers, and scholars. They discuss the significance of scaling for their respective discipline and field of research. The initial point of a trans-disciplinary symposium at Zurich University of the Arts in 2015, on which the contributions in this book are based, was the camera. It combines fast and slow motion, and film speed - already three dimensions of scaling. The possibility to copy and print taken images adds a fourth one, replication, making this apparatus that seems to merely depict our world appear to be something of a much larger scale: a machine to produce thought and imagination.

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Book SynopsisEste cuaderno, al igual que los demás de la colección, ofrece una serie de ejercicios donde el lector puede observar a lo largo de una serie de pasos la evolución del trabajo. A partir de aquí puede ensayarse las diferentes técnicas que en cada ejercicio se muestran. El presente título, dedicado al un factor técnico básico cual es la perspectiva, fundamento para muchos temas, como paisaje o bodegón, de un trabajo bien realizado, contiene ejercicios hechos con óleo y acuarela, pero también con tinta, lápices de colores, rotuladores, ceras y acrílico, y cuyos temas se citan a continuación:Tejados cercanosEdificios modernosPlaza con iglesiaMolinillo de caféUna calle de puebloCarretera con árbolesContrapicado de un puenteCampo sembradoUna perspectiva interiorVisión elevada de tejadosArcos de catedralUn paisaje modernista

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