Structure and Form in Design: Critical Ideas for Creative Practice - Hardcover

Hann, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847887430 ISBN 13: 9781847887436

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Michael Hann (BA, M.Phil, PhD, FRSA, FTI) holds the Chair of Design Theory at the University of Leeds. He is also Director of the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULITA). He has published across a number of subject areas, has made numerous key-note addresses at international conferences, and is an acknowledged international expert on the geometry of design. Previous publications with Berg are: Structure and Form in Design (2012) and Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847887430
• ISBN 13: 9781847887436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200