TY - BOOK AU - Stiny, George AU - Stiny, George TI - Shape: :talking about seeing and doing SN - 9780262693677 U1 - 745.4 STI PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - :Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, KW - Graphic arts KW - Shapes -- Design -- Art KW - Geometrical models -- Design N1 - Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Tell me all about it -- 1. What makes it visual? -- 2. Seeing how it works -- 3. Using it to design -- Notes -- Index N2 - 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 ER -