A tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kostellow taught industrial design at Pratt Institute for more than 50 years and the designers she trained - and the designers they are training - have changed the face of American design. This volume reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kost...(展开全部)

If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer...(展开全部)

This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new m...(展开全部)

From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Bal...(展开全部)

The second revised edition of this classic book integrates text and pictures more clearly than in previous editions. Further illustrations have been added to include more colour diagrams and examples of current work done by students in recent years. The revisions were made by the author's widow, a lecturer in art.

The Visual Story offers students and professionals in cinematography, production design, directing and screenwriting a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film or video. An understanding of the visual components will serve as the guide in the selection of locations, set dressing, props, wardrobe, lenses, camera positi...(展开全部)

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept - and the reality - of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly is a network? What different types of networks are there? Why are they interesting, and what can they tell us? In recent years, scientists from a range of fields - including mathematics, physics, ...(展开全部)

这部具有开创性的著作为设计师、艺术指导和学生，无论他们的经验如何，提供了通向成功的设计的独特方法。在他对使视觉设计醒目和清楚易读的要素的探索中，经验丰富的设计师和教育家阿历克斯·伍·怀特收集了大量的资料和例子，学习怎样使用： 限定和表现主导图像、词汇和概念 运用规模、色彩和位置引导观者穿过主次等极进行阅读 把空白空间作为设计的一个重要组成部分，而不仅仅只是背景 运用特排和正文字体使读者能够最大程度地理解和重视它 从设计、绘画、建筑和版画以及作者自己的文件资料中选出来的数百幅插图使甚至是最抽象的概念都变得通俗易懂。为思考和运用4种设计要素提供了一个新的方法，本书一定能够促成、产生更好的设计。