Structure and form in design : critical ideas for creative practice /
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 the decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in detail, while vario...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2298920 |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- The fundamentals and their role in design
- Underneath it all
- Tiling the plane without gap or overlap
- Symmetry, patterns and fractals
- The stepping stone of Fibonacci and the harmony of a line divided
- Polyhedra, spheres and domes
- Structures and form in three dimensions
- Variations on a theme: modularity, closest packing and partitioning
- Structural analysis in the decorative arts, design and architecture
- A designer's framework.