
- 200 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- 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