Stripes: Communicating with Pattern (Communicating with Patterns S.) - Softcover

Stephenson, Keith; Hampshire, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2940361150 ISBN 13: 9782940361151

Publisher: Rotovision, 2006

Synopsis

"Communicating with Pattern: Stripes" is a stunning collection of striped design from the world's of textiles, fashion, interiors, architecture, graphics, and product and industrial design. This inspirational sourcebook digs below the aesthetic value of pattern to unearth the deeper visual language communicated through patterns. From Adidas trainers to City pin-stripes and share-dealer's shirts, from barcodes to football kits, stripes signify identity, membership, belonging and allegiance - the "old school tie", the Stars and Stripes and military rankings - but they can also be fun, bright, childlike and bold eg: toothpaste, circus tents and candy canes. In art, stripes stimulate the eye in the work of Jasper Johns, Bridget Riley and Mark Rothko, while in fashion they can be both formal and rebellious - witness brands as diverse as John Paul Gaultier, Mary Quant, Gucci and Paul Smith. "Communicating with Pattern: Stripes" explores the graphic language of stripes, shows how they can be used to target a market, being both traditional and tribal. It launches a new series for designers from every discipline, which will offer a complete vocabulary of pattern as visual communication.

About this title

About the Author

Keith Stephenson, founding Director of Absolute Zero Degrees design studio in London, is a prolific, multi-disciplinary designer whose work ranges from contemporary wallpaper to book design. He has previously designed and illustrated books for RotoVision including Mass-Market Classics: The Home and Bright Ideas.

From the Inside Flap

'Communicating with Pattern: Stripes' presents designers from every discipline with a complete vocabulary of stripes, decoding their various meanings and presenting a unique history of this classic pattern. Look inside and you will find an unrivalled source of creative inspiration, explaining the language and usage of stripes, and exploring their influence in visual communication.

This fact-packed, beautifully illustrated handbook is also a sourcebook of hundreds of ideas for the imaginative use of stripes in every type of design, featuring examples of stripes ing raphics, art, fashion, product design, interiors, architecture, retail, and information design.

Why are school ties striped? Why are multicolored stripes fun? How do bar codes work/ How do stripes warn us of danger? These are just some of the questions answered in this inspiring book that will open your eyes to the creative posibilities offered to designers by communicating with stripes.

While 'Communicating with Pattern: Stripes' is a unique look at how we design and communicate with a single pattern, it is only the first in a series that forms a "bible of pattern" for designers from every walk of life. Other titles in the Communicating with Pattern series will include 'Circles and Dots,' and 'Squares, Checks, and Grids.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Rotovision
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2940361150
• ISBN 13: 9782940361151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256