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Apple : learning to design, designing to learn / Ken Miki

Author
Miki, Ken
Additional Titles
Learning to design, designing to learn
Published
Zürich : Lars Müller, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
161 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

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Contents
Preface -- Mission statement -- Discovering your own way of living -- Why an Apple? -- Apple: Observation, Breakdown -- Fruit you thought you knew -- I saw the same thing, but it was different -- Becoming the world's greatest researcher -- Apple: Observation, Length: -- Subtracting information -- Fusion of functional beauty and emotional beauty -- Transience, sorrow, and gallantry -- Designing everything, down to the observational process -- Apple: Observation, Area: -- I never thought of doing it like that before! -- Ability to read, edit, and redraw a map -- Erasing the name -- Attaching a name -- Apple: Observation, Color: -- Colors speak to us -- Freeing and sharing colors -- Does a rainbow really have seven colors? -- Apple: Doodling -- Search for hidden meanings -- Speaking design and listening design -- Exhibiting and voting on the works -- Apple: Points -- Think big, act small -- Learning from limitations -- Bringing a still life to life -- CMY pointillism -- Apple: Line -- Thinking with the hands -- Aerial Apple -- Writhing perseverance -- Apple: Word-Association Game -- Brain-borrowing -- Apple correlation charts -- Apple: Party -- Communication, hospitality, and art -- Apples and me -- Apple: One Line -- Connecting, expanding, discovering -- Simplification accentuates structure -- Design, environment, and psychology -- Apple: Onomatopoeia -- Wordless words -- Learning by imitation -- Design resides in relationships between subjects and object -- Apple: Thought-Object -- Three-dimensional map of mental processes -- Grasping the big picture -- Meeting with happy accidents -- Apple: Flip Book -- Making a story -- Becoming aware of time and space -- Breathing life into a picture -- Apple: Textbook -- Making a textbook -- Looking back at the course -- Sharing the process -- Apple: Conclusion -- Understanding, observation, imagination, analysis -- Revision, visualization, becoming aware -- What is learning? -- Afterword.
Summary
Taking the apple as a basic element for thinking through the practice of design, Ken Miki takes the reader on a complete basic course in visual communication. The form and characteristics of the apple are used to address topics such as color, scale, surface, texture, writing, line, and body. A unique approach that offers inspiration and food for thought for both experienced graphic artists and those less familiar with the world of design.
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ISBN
9783037783863 (pbk.)
3037783869 (pbk.)
Endowment Note
Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment
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