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Author: Sharne Algotsson Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home
Author: Sharne Algotsson Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home
Author: Geoffrey Williams Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486227529 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
Author: Marty Noble Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486430379 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Thirty large, ready-to-color illustrations, all adapted from traditional African designs, reflect the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Carefully rendered from authentic artifacts are a Moorish textile pattern, an Ashanti carved door panel, an antelope-shaped wooden headdress from Mali, an Ethiopian cross, and other motifs.
Author: Tapiwa Matsinde Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art, Modern Languages : en Pages : 201
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"Contemporary African Design offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors." --Publisher.
Author: Rebecca Jewell Publisher: British museum Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
British Museum Pattern Books reproduce in line drawings the rich variety of patterns and designs which decorate art and artefacts in the British Museum and elsewhere.
Author: African Print Cultures Network. Meeting Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472053175 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 461
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Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent
Author: Ron Eglash Publisher: ISBN: 9780813526140 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 258
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Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics. It has become a new tool for modeling in biology, geology, and other natural sciences. Anthropologists have observed that the patterns produced in different cultures can be characterized by specific design themes. In Europe and America, we often see cities laid out in a grid pattern of straight streets and right-angle corners. In contrast, traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structures-circles of circles of circular dwellings, rectangular walls enclosing ever-smaller rectangles, and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition. These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture; their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems. Drawing on interviews with African designers, artists, and scientists, Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture, traditional hairstyling, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, practical craft, quantitative techniques, and symbolic systems. He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations.
Author: Marjorie Sarnat Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486821641 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 37
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Classic African-inspired images feature silhouetted figures in head wraps and flowing gowns decorated with patterns based on traditional African arts and crafts designs. Background elements include animals, plants, and fanciful ornaments.
Author: Sharne Algotsson
Author: Sharne Algotsson
Author: Geoffrey Williams
Author: Marty Noble
Author: Tapiwa Matsinde
Author: Rebecca Jewell
Author: African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Author: Ron Eglash
Author: Gregory Mirow
Author: Yaw Ofosu-Asare
Author: Marjorie Sarnat