The art of looking sideways /
by Fletcher, Alan [author.].
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BookDescription: 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0714852228 :; 9780714834498 (hardcover); 0714834491 :.Subject(s): Fletcher, Alan, 1931-2006 | Visual perception | Decoration and ornament | Design | Visual communicationOnline resources: Publisher description
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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.
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.
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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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