The art of looking sideways / Alan Fletcher.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2001Description: 533 [that is, 1066] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0714834491
- 700.41 FL.A 2001 23
- NK1505 .F58 2001
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | The Knowledge Hub Library | Design Media | 700.41 FL.A 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 211599 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- Culture -- Tools -- Creativity -- Wit -- Improvisation -- Colour -- Dreaming -- Ideas -- Synchronicity -- Mutation -- Learning -- Noise -- Paradigms -- Automation -- Intelligence -- Brain -- Mind -- Senses -- Thinking -- Problems -- Chance -- Imagination -- Visualizing -- Alphabet -- Seeing -- Places -- Perception -- Stereotypes -- Value -- Illusion -- Paradox -- Figure ground -- Symmetry -- Reflections -- Pattern -- Camouflage -- Economy -- Measure -- Composition -- Leys and lines -- Aesthetics -- Taste -- Style -- Perfection -- Meanings -- Symbols -- Numbers -- Typography -- Skill -- Perspective -- Space-time -- Figuring -- Language -- Rhetoric -- Design -- Process -- Copying -- Words -- Imaging -- Pictureplay -- Wordplay -- Handedness -- Pictograms -- Scripts -- Letters -- Identity -- Names -- Signatures -- Insignia -- Trademarks -- Writing.
Describing himself as a visual jackdaw, designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps. This work distills this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind.
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