Shape :talking about seeing and doing / George Stiny

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Stiny, George

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Stiny, George

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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: London :Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006Description: 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780262693677

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Genre/Form:

Geometrical models -- Design

DDC classification:

745.4 STI

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Tell me all about it -- 1. What makes it visual? -- 2. Seeing how it works -- 3. Using it to design -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: 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

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Acknowledgments --
Introduction : Tell me all about it --
1. What makes it visual? --
2. Seeing how it works --
3. Using it to design --
Notes --
Index.

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

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