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The art of looking sideways /

By: Publication details: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2001.Description: 1066 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0714834491
  • 9780714834498
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General NK 1505 FLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0006628

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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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