Design Elements – Roiana Reed Costauro and the Relationship with Visual Composition

Author: Hannah [USA], translated by Li Leshan, Han Qi, and Chen Zhonghua
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Publish Date: 2003-08-23
Features: This book was written as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982 for Roanna Reed Costello. Thanks to her dedicated students and colleagues, the book was finally published. It was designed by Tuck Viemeister and Seth Cohenfeld, though she also made some modifications. Design Elements is a reference book for students and designers to learn from. As an introductory text on design, it covers creating various simple forms and developing complex methods to solve difficult design problems. As a comprehensive discussion of the practical relationships in design, it helps readers better understand three-dimensional design. Roanna Reed Costello taught "Industrial Design" at Pratt Institute for 50 years, where she developed this learning curriculum, which has become the foundation for design education worldwide. This curriculum, along with her foundational exercises on the abstract visual composition, became her lifelong pursuit. The students she trained, and the students of her students, have completely transformed the face of American design.