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Cut and fold paper textures: techniques for surface design

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This book will show you inspirational ways in which paper can be used to create textured and relief surfaces. These techniques are mostly intuitive and easy to make, requiring no origami or paper engineering knowledge. There are 12 different techniques: Twisting narrow strips to make paper string, Weaving strips, Layering, Coiling, Tearing, Bending, Incising and Lifting, Crumpling, Pleating, Cutting Pleats, Stippling, and using Translucent Surfaces. Each is beautifully illustrated with creative examples, first made in white paper and then in papers of different colors, weights, and textures. Finally, inspirational photographs show the techniques applied by designers to clothing, furniture, jewelry, and homewares, as well as artworks. These techniques could be used by professional designers, design students in disciplines from textiles to interior design, and anyone with an interest in paper craft."

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Cut and fold techniques for pop-up designs

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Introducing techniques for making pop-ups from one sheet of card, the third title in this series on paper engineering takes folding techniques into the third dimension. Each chapter introduces a new technical idea and shows how that technique can be adapted in many different ways, or combined with techniques from earlier chapters. These 3-D techniques can be incorporated into any design where typography and/or illustration are used, including mail-shots, personal publicity, invitations, business cards, and greetings cards. With their emphasis on surface design over complex cutting, the pop-ups have an instant appeal for designers.

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Techniques de pliage pour les designers : papier, plastique, métal, tissu

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Le pliage est l’un des procédés les plus répandus de conception et de fabrication des objets. Il est au cœur du travail de nombreux professionnels de la création et de l’industrie (architecture, communication, mode, orfèvrerie, céramique, etc.). Les techniques de pliage nourrissent l’imagination des designers et permettent la réalisation d’objets tridimensionnels à partir de simples feuilles, qu’elles soient en papier, en métal, en plastique, ou bien encore en tissu. Cet ouvrage de référence et le cédérom qui l’accompagne s’adressent à tout concepteur souhaitant maîtriser et mettre en œuvre les techniques du pliage, applicables à tous types de matériaux.

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L'art des motifs

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Au sol, sur les meubles, dans la rue, sur les vêtements… : les motifs sont omniprésents dans notre quotidien. Ce guide pratique, adressé aux graphistes, designers, créateurs, mais également aux amateurs férus de loisirs créatifs, accompagne le lecteur dans la création de motifs plus ou moins complexes.À l’aide de quatre transformations géométriques de base (la rotation, la translation, la réflexion et la réflexion glissée), le lecteur est invité à jouer avec les combinaisons et les règles pour produire des frises, des mosaïques et des pavages originaux et époustouflants. L’auteur aborde différents principes mathématiques avec clarté et pédagogie. Les étapes, expliquées pas à pas, sont illustrées de schémas éclairants, qui permettent au lecteur de prendre peu à peu son autonomie.

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Techniques de pliage pour les designers, 2e édition

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Découvrez progressivement les techniques du pliage, des plus fondamentales (répétitions symétriques, étirement, polygones…) aux plus avancées (surfaces plissées, pliages en courbe, compression, travées et paraboles…). Chacune d’elles fait l’objet d’une présentation détaillée, avec schémas commentés et photographies d’objets finis. Plusieurs exemples de réalisations d’objets pliés sont présentés pas à pas.

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Structural packaging: design your own boxes and 3-D forms

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Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design. It teaches a simple net construction system a one-piece 2-D configuration of card seen when a 3-D package is opened out and flattened which enables the designer to create a huge number of very strong 3-D packaging forms that are both practical and imaginative.

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Folding techniques for designers from sheet to form

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Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal, and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. An elegant, practical handbook, it covers over 70 techniques explained by clear step-by-step drawings, crease-pattern drawings, and specially commissioned photography.

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Compleat pleats : pleating techniques for fashion, architecture, and design

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Paul Jackson's Complete Pleats is a comprehensive book about pleating. It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design.

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How to make repeat pattersn: a guide for designers, architects and artists

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This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make 'wallpaper repeats', where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly. Using letters as the basic elements, the book demonstrates how all repeat pattern-making comes out of four simple operations: translation, rotation, reflection, and glide reflection. It will provide the definitive one-stop pattern-making resource for professional designers and students across disciplines, from textiles and fashion to graphic design and architecture.

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Masters of origami : the art of paperfolding

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A small square of paper measuring six by six inches is the unprepossessing starting point for origami, the nearly two-thousand-year-old Japanese art of paper folding. From this modest material beginning, the origami master creates objects of fascinating intricacy and beauty - flying cranes and hopping frogs, complex geometric shapes and fruit forms - following the unwritten rule of never using scissors or glue. The ancient craft of origami came into a new stage of its long life in the 1990s as renowned galleries and museums began collecting the medium, gradually elevating it to the status of contemporary sculpture. This richly illustrated volume of full-colour plates presents outstanding works by 60 masters of origami from 16 different countries. Contributing authors explore the fascinating diversity and complexity of the art of paper-folding in texts devoted to its history, the use of exquisite, handmade paper, folding techniques, and the role of origami as a source of inspiration for contemporary designers, architects, and artists, as well as its increasing importance in theorem solving and concept development within the fields of science and medicine.