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The Language of Pattern – 52 -
The making and understand of pattern is of especial importance in a period of increasing dependance on visual communication. Inspired by Islamic decorative pattern, the authors of this book, who are all designers, explore pattern step by step, beginning with simple numerical and geometrical relationships and progressing through the dimensions, so that the reader is drawn into a visual and conceptual game of increasing complexity, as pattern and concept develop hand in hand. The authors show how even the most complex patterns are built from simple basic structures. The reader is encourage to use change of scale and dimension creatively, to seek to interrelate ideas, and to adopt a synthesizing approach to experience in order to counteract the analytical attitude that is part of our West cultural heritage.
With 52 pages of line drawings in two colours
Published by Thames and Hudson
30 Bloomsbury Street
London WC1B 3QP
ISBN 0500270414
1st Edition 1974
Once inscribed by M.J. Boothroyd 1975 now still standing strong in Very Good + Condition
An enquire inspired by Islamic decoration
Keith Albarn
Jenny Miall Smith
Stanford Steele
Dinah Walker
Miss Guidance Said,
August 3, 2010 @ 11:18 pm
Quote from this book:
“The ability to perceive pattern and make connections, to see parts in relation to the whole, is vital to us in the West where a culture based on dichotomy (art-science, material-spiritual, etc) has been led by a rapidly developing technology towards excessive analysis at the expense of synthesis.”