The Elements of Design
Material type: TextPublication details: London Thames & Hudson 2002Description: 208: ill. 25 x 20 cmISBN:- 9780500283394
- DSGN OEI
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Arthshila Ahmedabad | DSGN/OEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00192 |
Hauntingly beautiful and deeply instructive, The Elements of Design surveys our whole environment, natural and manmade, and shows us how it can be defined in terms of basic elements: variable arrangements of dots; lines that are straight, curving, bending or crossing; planes such as rectangles, squares, lozenges, triangles and circles. All these are represented in this book, with telling juxtapositions, in a wide range of materials and techniques, in one sense timeless and universal, in another datable and culturally conditioned. Ever-recurring design elements, they take us to the heart of the creative process: a creative transformation that may involve inspiration or imitation, representation or limitation. A cult book for artists, designers and craftspeople of all kinds, The Elements of Design is a startling reminder of how the search for something new is a voyage of rediscovery into past and present forms.