Sketchbook
Sketchbook

Author: Timothy O'Donnell

Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1592537340

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This book explores influential designers’ sketchbooks as a truer reflection of a designer’s thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured exploration, a space free from all budgetary and client constraints. Visually arresting objects in their own right, this book aims to elevate sketches from mere ephemera to important documents where the reader can glean valuable insight into the creative process, and apply it to their own practices. Featured designers include Ralph Caplan, Nigel Holmes, Chris Bigg, Eva Jiricna, Jason Munn, Gary Baseman, Marian Bantjes, and many others.

Island Sketchbook
Island Sketchbook

Author: Frank J. Ledwell

Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Acorn Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Frank Ledwell seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk wisdom into 60 prose sketches of Island characters, anecdotes, and traditions. The stories are based on real people or incidents; others are fictionalized, evoking the true, remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St. Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor, husband, and parent in rural Queen's County. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate Islander.

Gopher Sketchbook
Gopher Sketchbook

Author: Al Pāpas

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780931714412

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Drawing sketches and thumbnail sketches of the great ones from the "U" of Minnesota's earliest football days to now.

Berlioz
Berlioz

Author: D. Kern Holoman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9780674067783

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A captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography, Berlioz is not only a complete account of the Romantic era composer, but also an acute analysis of his compositions and a description of his work as a conductor and critic. 139 halftones, 3 maps, 160 musical examples.

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

Author: Brian Edwards

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008-08-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1134066813

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This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analyzing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design. By combining design theory with practical lessons in drawing, Understanding Architecture Through Drawing encourages the use of the sketchbook as a creative and critical tool. The book is highly illustrated and is an essential manual on freehand drawing techniques for students of architecture, landscape architecture, town and country planning and urban design.