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This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in detail, while various three-dimensional forms are also discussed.
In the context of the decorative arts and design, structure is the underlying framework, and form the resultant, visible, two- or three-dimensional outcome of the creative process. Whether hidden or visually detectable in the final design, structure invariably determines whether or not a design is successful in terms of both its aesthetics and its practical performance.
Hann successfully identifies various geometric concepts, and presents and discusses a number of simple guidelines to assist the creative endeavours of both accomplished and student practitioners, teachers and researchers.
Table of Contents
Part Two: The Fundamentals and Their Role in Design
Introduction; Point - a Sound of Silence; Line and What Follows; Planes, Shapes and Forms; Various Polygons; Grids and Guidelines; Use to the Creative Practitioner; Summary
Part Three: Underneath It All
Introduction; Various Useful Constructions; Static and Dynamic Rectangles; Root Rectangles; The Brunes Star; Compositional Rectangles; Grids from Dynamic Rectangles; Summary
Part Four: Tiling the Plane Without Gap or Overlap
Introduction; Regular and Semi-regular Tilings; Demi-regular Tilings; Aperiodic Tilings; Islamic Tilings and Their Construction; Tiling on a Curved Surface; Developing Original Tiling Designs; Summary
Part Five: Symmetry, Patterns and Fractals
Introduction; Symmetry Operations; Motifs, Figures or Repeating Units; Friezes, Strips or Borders; Lattices and all-over Patterns; Counter-change Designs; Fractals and Self-similarity - Another Type of Symmetry; Summary
Part Six: The Stepping Stones of Fibonacci and the Harmony of a Line Divided
Introduction; The Fibonacci Series; The Golden Section; The Golden Rectangle; The Golden Spiral
Uses in Art, Design and Architecture - a Summary of the Debate; The Potential for the Creative Practitioner; Summary
Part Seven: Polyhedra, Spheres and Domes
Introduction; Spheres; Platonic Solids; Archimedean Solids; Radiolarians, Soccer Balls and Super Molecules; Polyhedra in Art and Design; Domes; Summary
Part Eight: Structure and Form in Three Dimensions
Introduction; Elements of Three-dimensional Form; Representations of Three-dimensional Form; Cubes, Prisms and Cylinders; Cones and Pyramids; Three-dimensional Lattices; Transformations; Summary
Part Nine: Variations on a Theme: Modularity, Closest Packing and Partitioning
Introduction; The Nature of Modularity; Modularity in the Fine and Decorative Arts; Modularity in Design and Architecture; Closest Packing; Efficient Partitioning; Towards a Theory of Emergence in the Decorative Arts and Design; Summary
Part Ten: Structural Analysis in the Decorative Arts, Design and Architecture
Introduction; Symmetry Analysis - Steps Towards a Consistent Method; Geometric Analysis in the Decorative Arts, Design and Architecture; Frequently Used Constructions and Measures; Questions Relating to Method and Data Collection; Steps Towards a Systematic Analytical Framework; Questions of Accuracy; Summary
Part Eleven: A Designer's Framework
Appendices
References
Product details

Published | Nov 01 2012 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 200 |
ISBN | 9781847887429 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 228 bw & 19 colour illus |
Dimensions | 10 x 7 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |