Structure and Form in Design
Critical Ideas for Creative Practice| By: | Michael Hann |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781847887429 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472584311 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.