design

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Picture this

how pictures work
2016
Explores visual perception and composition of images, examining how images engage emotions and how artwork empowers storytelling. Includes creative exercises.

Design Your Life

The Pleasures and Perils Of Everyday Things
2009
A series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them.

Design

the definitive visual history
2015
A photo-illustrated history of design, arranged chronologically from the 1850s to the early twenty-first century.

Order in space

a design source book
1970

Sculpture

2015
Sculptors bring stone, clay, bronze, and found objects to life, giving inert substance emotional depth and artistic significance. Sculpture explores the methods, the materials, the artists, and artworks that have made a lasting impact on society from Classical Greece to the twenty-first century.

Design basics

2008
A comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of design that covers the design process, unity, emphasis, focal point, scale, proportion, balance, rhythm, line, shape, volume, pattern, texture, illusion of space and motion, value, and color; and includes examples of artwork which aid in the reader's understanding of concepts.

The elements of design

rediscovering colors, textures, forms, and shapes
2002
A collection of photographs, taken over the course of several decades, that showcase the design elements of color, texture, dots, dots and lines, lines, crossings, planes, and circles, each with an introductory essay.

Principles of design

1996
Shows how the elements of design are combined and used in developing the seven principles of design - balance, movement, rhythm, contrast, emphasis, pattern, and unity.

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