Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580934722 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mark Fox and Angie Wang are professors at California College of the Arts in San Francisco where they have taught courses in graphic design since 1993 and 2005, respectively. . They collaborate under the name Design is Play; their work is represented in design collections at the United States Library of Congress, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the M
Ben Greenberg said Absolutely amazing! I reference it all the time. Absolutely amazing ! I reference it all the time. Great source of inspiration .. "Informative and beautiful to look at" according to tim chalmers. Fantastically designed book. Informative and beautiful to look at.. Excellent book! Excellent book!
The book is a means of identifying, categorizing, and explaining the multiple meanings of seminal archetypes. With more than 400 images from sources as diverse as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to Stonehenge, Symbols is a crash course in the nature of the collective unconscious and the vocabulary it uses to manifest its ideas."—Sara Rosen, Crave Online. A unique mix of Jung interpretation and Randian functionality, the book sifts through everyday things and rare artifacts that comprise a sign language that designers use to communicate throughout the universe of ideas."—Steven Heller, Print magazine, The Daily Heller"Symbols is a richly illustrated and fascinatingly told visual encyclopedia… To understand a culture, understand how it uses universal symbols. It’s a reminder that ultimately
A beautiful, visually arresting compendium that both informs and inspires, Symbols is a vital resource.. Whether human or animate, natural or man-made—each symbol (from sun, moon, lightning, and serpent to lozenge, spiral, and swastika) is illustrated with both classical and archetypal examples and often surprising contributions from textiles, fine art photography, ceramics, African sculpture, ancient coins, modern architecture, Native American crafts, European heraldry, Soviet propaganda, bookplates, film stills, military insignia, and much more. Designers and California College of the Arts instructors Mark Fox and Angie Wang recognize sources both historical and contemporary, high and low, revealing the narrative riches of symbolism found in a range of media and across times, places, and cultures. Symbols are embedded everywhere in our global visual culture, from oil paintings to biscuit packaging, monuments to mass-produced ashtrays. A new pictorial reference book for artists and d