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Colours, textures, forms and shapes are the basis of this sourcebook that reveals the elements common to all design and teaches us how to see afresh. Beautiful and instructive, it surveys our whole environment, natural and manmade, and shows how it can be defined in terms of basic elements which take us to the heart of the creative process. All are represented(...)
May 2002, New York
The elements of design : rediscovering colors, textures, forms and shapes
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Colours, textures, forms and shapes are the basis of this sourcebook that reveals the elements common to all design and teaches us how to see afresh. Beautiful and instructive, it surveys our whole environment, natural and manmade, and shows how it can be defined in terms of basic elements which take us to the heart of the creative process. All are represented with telling juxtapositions in a wide range of materials and techniques – the bark of a plane tree in Paris; a detail of a cotton towel in Japan; sunset in the Egyptian desert; a tiled floor in Bangkok; a cart wheel in Antwerp.
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May 2002, New York