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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Shape</title>
    <subTitle>:talking about seeing and doing</subTitle>
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    <namePart> Stiny, George</namePart>
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  <genre authority="">Geometrical models -- Design</genre>
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    <publisher>:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>©2006</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>422 pages : illustrations  ; 24 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>In Shape, George Stiny argues that seeing shapes--with all their changeability and ambiguity--is an inexhaustible source of creative ideas. Understanding shapes, he says, is a useful way to understand what is possible in design. Shapes are devices for visual expression just as symbols are devices for verbal expression. Stiny develops a unified scheme that includes both visual expression with shapes and verbal</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Acknowledgments --
Introduction : Tell me all about it --
1. What makes it visual? --
2. Seeing how it works --
3. Using it to design --
Notes --
Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ George Stiny</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Graphic arts</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Graphic arts</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>	 Shapes -- Design -- Art</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">745.4 STI</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780262693677</identifier>
  <identifier type="">:International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi</identifier>
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