Structure and Form in Design
eBook - PDF

Structure and Form in Design

Critical Ideas for Creative Practice

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Structure and Form in Design

Critical Ideas for Creative Practice

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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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781847887429
eBook ISBN
9781472584311
Edition
1
Topic
Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. List of illustrations
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 The fundamentals and their role in design
  7. 3 Underneath it all
  8. 4 Tiling the plane without gap or overlap
  9. 5 Symmetry, patterns and fractals
  10. 6 The stepping stones of Fibonacci and the harmony of a line divided
  11. 7 Polyhedra, spheres and domes
  12. 8 Structure and form in three dimensions
  13. 9 Variations on a theme: modularity, closest packing and partitioning
  14. 10 Structural analysis in the decorative arts, design and architecture
  15. 11 A designer’s framework
  16. Appendices
  17. References
  18. Index