Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design

by Mary Stewart

Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, known as Profiles, introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteria for excellence from a remarkable group of masters. Launching the Imagination is available in a comprehensive volume treating 2D design, Creativity and Problem-solving, 3D design, and time-based (4D) design; or in split volumes containing either 2D or 3D design, plus the material on Creativity and Problem-solving. This edition of Launching the Imagination moves the content of the Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center. With free access, this website, which engages stud

Genres: Art, Design, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 11, 2002

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Reviews

[Danielle Smiley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good text book on design. I especially enjoyed the profiles they did on artists.

[Evgenia Pradel · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book to start with.