Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design - Softcover

Stewart, Mary

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9780073526485: Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0073526487 ISBN 13: 9780073526485
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Author, artist, and educator Mary Stewart is the Foundations Program Director for the Art Department at Florida State University and co-founder of Integrative Teaching Thinktank, a national organization devoted to strengthening college-level teaching. She regularly gives workshops and lectures on creativity, curriculum design, visual communication, leadership and visual narrative. Her artwork has been shown in over eighty exhibitions nationally and internationally, and she has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants for choreography. She received the FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) Master Educator award and the National Council of Arts Administrators Award of Distinction in 2009.

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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0073526487
ISBN 13 
9780073526485
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
400
Rating
  • 3.73 out of 5 stars
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