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Title: Principles of Form and Design
by Wucius Wong
ISBN: 0471285528
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date: September, 1993
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $40.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5

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Rating: 4
Summary: Not attractive, but a useful reference for 2-D design
Comment: This is a combination of two books by the author, covering the essential principles of form and design in a textbook style. It won't inspire the artist, but does provide technical information that can be useful, especially for computer graphics artists.

The 3-D content of the book is less complete than the 2-D, and the pictures are primarily black and white. Visually and text-wise, this book is boring, but it may provide valuable technical information for those that are delving into the principles of design on computer. It's helpful for visalizing typical design usages like similarity, anomoly, gradation, radiation and rotation--with black and white shaded illustrations showing progression of design.

Rating: 4
Summary: Written long long ago... yet still up to date!
Comment: This book is actually a compilation of two old books from the same writer. As he stated in the intro - it covers essential principles of form and design in very basic, formal, scientific way. This may be a bit dry for some, and the illustrations are very different from popular design books. It's nothing arty but it does mention crucial points for designing.

The content is not about mind-blowing inspiration, ongoing fashion/trend of design, or stupid sensational gimmick... it's just simple and pure - it describes principles of form!
These principles can be applied anywhere, anytime... any purpose... no limitation.

I read these books long ago and still I go back and see it again. I am a 3D/CGI animator now and I believe this book will be useful for either DTP and CGI users alike.
This book uses same terminology as in computer graphic:

What is Grid? Unit? Superunits? Grouping?
Vertex, Faces, Polygons, Normals...
Transforming - scale, position, rotation...

They were old books in one now(bundled), but there's nothing seems outdated here!

Rating: 5
Summary: swanky
Comment: Wucius wong's Principles of form and design is just the essential book for all designer.

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