By Hand & Eye

By Hand Eye is a deep dive into the world of history, architecture and design And the authors have emerged with armloads of pearls for readers.Instead of serving up a list of formulas with magical names i.e the Golden Section, the Rule of Thirds that will transform the mundane into perfection, George R Walker and Jim Tolpin show how much of the world is governed by simple proportions, noting how ratios such as 1 2 3 5 and 4 5 were ubiquitous in the designs of pre industrial artisans And the tool that helps us explore this world, then as now, are dividers.The key to good design is to master these basic notes much like learning to sing do, re, mi How to do this is the subject of the first three quarters of the book It offers exercises, examples and encouragement in opening your inner eye, propping it up with toothpicks and learning the simple geometry that will help you improve your design.The last quarter of By Hand Eye takes these principles and puts them into practice by designing nine projects that are decidedly contemporary proof positive that design isn t reserved for highboys and 18th century Philadelphia side chairs The projects show all of the book s design principles in full flower, and yet the projects are small enough and simple enough for the most part that you can use them as a way to explore the book s concepts without risking a lot of wood or time in the process. Best Download [ By Hand & Eye ] author [ George R. Walker ] – kino-fada.fr I m still reading this making notes in my shop book about it as different parts become useful I try them I may print out the PDF bind it in a folder with note pages It s that useful of a working book.This has taken me a long time to go through because it is very dense It s best read quickly a first time to get the gist of the sections where the book is heading Repeated reads hands on work are needed to really get into...This was pretty good, definitely worth reading if you like the books from Lost Art Press I had a couple of minor gripes with it First, the author suggested an exercise for drawing a the Greek architectural orders as a way to develop a sense of design It included an illustration for a Doric column with few instructions on how to proceed that s ok, but it made it difficult , but had none of the others, and no suggestions where to find them It left me wondering what to do next.The second gr This was pretty good, definitely worth reading if you like the books from Lost Art Press I had a couple of minor gripes with it First, the author suggested an exercise for drawing a the Greek architectur...The worst case of empty pattern recognition misfiring since a failing design student learned about the golden ratio in the early 19th century, though instead of phi Walker and Tolpin find small integers everywhere It s not that these ratios don t exist in most of the designs they look at they re just so trivial that their presence is as surprising and deep as finding a connection between a pair of apples and the number 2 They almost approach awareness of this fact in a note after an exercis The worst case of empty pattern recognition misfiring since a failing design student learned about the golden ratio in the early 19th century, though instead of phi Walker and Tolpin find small integers every...A wonderful read getting back to the basic artisan methods of furniture design building Muchthan that, it open your inner eye to the relations proportions in the natural worldsomething we all could gain a better understanding of if we take the time to learn Definately ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here For someone who had no idea about proportions and artisan dimensioning this book was amazing My only minor gripe is as follows At some point in the book it was mentioned that they would show how to mark directly onto the stock Truth be told, I did skim some of the exercises but I don t think this was covered I deduce from the book overall that you should use a separate module or story pole as a source of dimensions and that these external references could be used to mark the stock However For someone who had no idea about proportions and artisan dimensioning this book was amazing My only minor gripe is as follows At some point in the book it was mentioned that they would show how to mark directly onto the stock Truth be told, I did skim some of the exercises but I don t think this was covered I deduce from the book overall that you should use a separate module or story pole as a source o...

• English
• 14 December 2017
George R. Walker
• Hardcover
• 186 pages
• 0985077751
• George R. Walker
• By Hand & Eye