Structure and form in design : critical ideas for creative practice / Michael Hann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hann, M. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Methodology.

Design.

Design--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 180 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

contents

acknowledgements

list of illustrations

1 introduction

2 the fundamentals and their role in design

3 underneath it all

4 tiling the plane without gap or overlap

5 symmetry, patterns and fractals

6 the stepping stones of Fibonacci and the harmony of a line divided

7 polyhedra, spheres and domes

8 structure and form in three dimensions

9 variations on a theme: modularity, closest packing and partitioning

10 structural analysis in the decorative arts, design and architecture

11 a designer's framework

appendices

references

index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-176) and index.

ISBN:

9781472584311

1472584317

9780857854650

0857854658

OCLC:

855504295