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Reddit mentions of Picture This: How Pictures Work (Art Books, Graphic Design Books, How To Books, Visual Arts Books, Design Theory Books)
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We found 5 Reddit mentions of Picture This: How Pictures Work (Art Books, Graphic Design Books, How To Books, Visual Arts Books, Design Theory Books). Here are the top ones.
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Release date | August 2016 |
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WHAT?!
Is this for real?!
I haven't figured out yet how to tell who gave me these flattering awards. But when I do, I'm going to thank you shamelessly... extravagantly... to the point of embarrassment!
And thanks to everyone who gave me a uv! It's really gratifying to get a tangible response that tells you that you help flip on that mental lightswitch belonging to something that feels good to their brain. It is a pay-forward - someone else opened my eyes to the neuro side of art, design, and architecture. Now I dig it so much that it feels like a win to share it, and know that the share makes the recipient happy. I'll stop now before I gush.
Here are my best answers to the questions y'all asked.
u/dumpy_potato, asking for resources about this. YES! It's actually been kind of having a moment for a few years. You can find articles in all the places where neuroscientists, and neuropsychologists are likely to talk about designers; which are the same places where designer would never in a hundred years see them. Ain't science great like that?!
At the bottom of this comment, u/magneto_ms, I'm sharing some links to excellent books and articles on the fundamental principles of neuro-visual yada yada, and the way the brain instinctively responds to the sight of various lines, shapes, depictions of depty/height/mass, particular specific objects or things that resemble them, color combinations and contrasts, etc. (Spoiler alert: The instinctive brain really really responds to babies, faces, and genitalia including boobies. After that comes water, then food.)
Killer examples of designs that epitomize these principles - ones that make my eyes pop, and my brain feel good - is the work of Alexa Hamilton. For example, this cover on her book, The Language of Interior Design. Is that not an eye magnet?! Read her brilliant intro, about how good design makes they viewer's eye travel a particular path around the room. (I'm not a fan of her traditional, ornate style. But her composition is bomb.)
The Neuroscience of Design, Psychology Today
Design on the brain: Combining neuroscience and architecture
Evidence Based Design: When Neuroscience, Psychology, and Interior Design Meet
The Integration of Interior Design and Neuroscience: Towards a Methodology to Apply Neuroscience in Interior Spaces (pdf)
This one particularly rocks!
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
I hope some of these deliver on what you're looking for. HMU anytime if I can offer more.
My big advice to you is to take a step back and work on studies from life. It's much better looking than my first digital landscape, so props to that. But there's a lot of work that needs to be done here so I'll try to point stuff out as succinctly as possible (I wish I could do a live crit. It would be so much easier) but here goes.
That's all I got for now. If you have any questions I'll try to reply as soon as I see it. Otherwise, hope this helps and pushes you to improve. I do see potential here, if you commit your time and work hard. Cheers
This is a great way to explain composition. I purchased a book awhile ago that gets into these topics in a really cool way, picturing little red riding hood with basic shapes. here
Layout + Color
Picture This by Molly Bang
Typography
Second vote for Elements of Typographic Style, excellent book.
Drawing, honestly at the start the biggest key to growth is going to be drawing as much as you can. You're going to suck for a while so start getting those bad drawings out of you. There's a ton of great people to watch on YouTube (Sycra Yasin, Glenn Vilppu, Stan Prokopenko, Steve Huston). I've seen Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain recommended by many. I'm not crazy about it myself but I didn't read as a beginner artist so I probably didn't get as much out of it as I could have.
I'm also somewhere in the middle. I can never see myself working abstractly, but I don't want to be just another cog in the machine of disney's latest meatgrinder project.
The reason I brought up Piet Mondrian is because he went from very realistic down to the simplest shapes and primary colors. Perhaps shape design is something worth looking into for you.
There's a book.. Well.. I say book, it's more like a leaflet. By Molly Bang on composition and imagery.
https://www.amazon.com/Picture-This-How-Pictures-Work/dp/1452151997
And it's quite interesting in terms of shape design and "shape language". It's a great introduction to the many uses of shapes and perhaps you already know about it, in which case I'm sorry I can't help more. But if you don't want to get into too much on light and form, shapes are a good place to start.