Communicating with Pattern: Circles and Dots - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3283005362 ISBN 13: 9783283005368

Synopsis

"Communicating with Pattern: Circles" celebrates the roundest, spottiest and dottiest design from around the globe, from every design discipline. Circles and spheres represent unity, and collaboration, from Venn diagrams to globes and roundtables. As the first shapes that toddlers learn to draw and recognize, circles communicate friendliness, and comfort, and - smileys and e-motions, and sun-faces - and are the most common devices in corporate logos and information point design, from the London Underground and Paris RER logos to Disney's Mickey Mouse - a design classic that brings together every aspect of the vocabulary of circles. Dots, meanwhile, present detail, information, and also absent information...But circles and dots can also be bold, confident, radical, and revolutionary, from Eero Aarnio's bubble chairs, to Damien Hirst's designs via the iMac, and the imaginative sweep of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings. Circles show the big picture, dots the small; circles clarify, while dots are often mistaken for noise.

"Communicating with Pattern: Circles" is the second title in a new series for designers from every discipline, which offers a complete vocabulary of pattern as visual communication.

About this title

Review

"second in this highly collectible new series... shows stunning
examples of designs... is an entertaining and highly informative read."
-- RIBA, August 2006

This amazing visual encyclopaedia will appeal to anyone who has an interest in cult, quirky or future classics. -- The Bookseller, June 2006

From the Inside Flap

'Communicating with Pattern: Circles and Dots' presents designers from every discipline with a complete vocabulary of cirlcles in design, decoding their meanings and presenting a unique history of this classic pattern. This book is an unrivalled source of creative inspiration, explaining the language of circles and dots, 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 circles in every type of design, featuring examples of circles, dots, and spheres in graphics, art, fashion, product design, furniture, interiors, architecture, retail, and information design.

Circles are inclusive and embracing, while dots often signify rebellion and bold, counter-cultural statements. Why is this? And how did circle-based designs such as the classic "smiley" evolve? These are just some of the questions answered in this inspiring book that will open your eyes to the creative design possibilities inherent in circles and dots, from polka dots, via Pointism, to the dot in "dot com."

While 'Communicating with Pattern: Circles and Dots' is a unique look at how we communicate with a single pattern, it is just one volume 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 'Stripes', and 'Squares, Checks, and Grids'.

Edition details

• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3283005362
• ISBN 13: 9783283005368
• Binding: Paperback