Stripes, grids and checks / Michael Hann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hann, M. A., author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Design Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament--Themes, motives.

Decoration and ornament.

Stripes.

Grids (Crisscross patterns).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 141 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

System Details:

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Summary:

Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments, at the macro and micro levels, in land- and cityscapes, buildings, and other designed constructions, compositions and objects. Considered conventionally, checks, periodic tilings and regular patterns owe their compositional arrangements to an order imposed by an underlying grid structure. The inten.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

2. Fundamentals (lines and stripes)

3. Enclosed figures (regular polygons and circles)

4. Dynamic rectangles

5. Grids, natural and manufactured

6. Checks, plaids and tartans

7. Tilings,

8. Patterns

9. Analytical frameworks

10. Compositional frameworks

11. In conclusion

Sample student assignments and exercises

Bibliography, References and Endnotes.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Digital resource published 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857856579

085785657X

9780857857774

0857857770

9780857855282

085785528X

OCLC:

1201425867