Positioning People in Space: Clip Art in Context for Designers, Architects, Landscape Architects, and Illustrators [Paperback]

Mamdouh Fayek (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070219494 | ISBN-13: 978-0070219496 | Publication Date: September 1, 1997 | Edition: 1st

Now you can capitalize on a whole new generation of copyright-free materials for interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and illustrators. This user friendly book is the first to explain how to use entourage elements properly, from human figures to vegetation to accessories and objets d'art. Categorized neatly in many settings, such as exterior spaces, offices, eating facilities, hotels, retail stores, healthcare facilities, and residences. Packed with over 1,500 illustrations, the work also gives you a modern and future-oriented portfolio of entourage, including scaled indications for elevation views. These drawings represent a broad range of cultures, nationalities, races, and ages, and can be scanned and downloaded into your CAD drawings or transferred on your manual drawings.

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Create winning presentations with exciting new entourage elements and techniques! Positioning People in Space Now you can capitalize on a whole new generation of copyright free material, especially developed for interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and illustrators. This unique guide is the first to explain how to use entourage elements, from human figures to vegetation to objects d'art. Scale is indicated on figures to use in elevation and section presentation. These drawings are neatly categorized and subcategorized for easy access to be used in settings such as exterior spaces, offices, eating facilities, hotels, retail stores, healthcase facilities, and residences. Packed with over 1500 drawings, this user friendly hands-on design tool includes: Indroductions for each of the fifteen chapters explaining the content; Structure and measurements of the human body with special attention to hands and feet; Guidance on perspective and cast shadows of human figures; Techniques for selection, positioning, adapting; and modifying entourage elements; Examples of the stylistic differences to suit different modes of presentation; Examples of simplifying detailed drawings in smaller sizes that suit positioning of entourage. Positioning People in Space also gives you a sophisticated, contemporary, future oriented portfolio of entourage elements, complete with scaled indications for elevation and section styles of presentation. These images represent a broad range of cultures, nationalities, races, and ages and can be scanned and downloaded into your computer generated drawings and/or transferred onto your manual drawing. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mamdouh Fayek, MFA, IIDA, IDEC, is Associate Professor of Design at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the principal of his own planning and design firm, which specializes in restaurant, retail, office, and residential design. Mr. Fayek has published a number of articles in professional and academic design periodicals. He has also shown his artwork in juried exhibitions of galleries and museums as well as one-man shows.

About the Author

Mamdouh Fayek, MFA, IIDA, IDEC is Associate Professor of Design at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the principal of his own planning and design firm, which specializes in restaurant, retail, office, and residential design. Mr. Fayek has published a number of articles in professional and academic design periodicals. He also showed his artwork in juried exhibits of galleries and museums and one-man shows.

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1st edition (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070219494
• ISBN-13: 978-0070219496
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,099,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Better off with one of the older Entourage books, March 23, 2004

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This review is from: Positioning People in Space: Clip Art in Context for Designers, Architects, Landscape Architects, and Illustrators (Paperback)

Though advertised as a "modern" people are drawn very roughly and facial features are especially strange looking (no character at all). The general range of poses, styles, kinds of people, etc are just as generic and out-of-date as the older Entourage and clip-art books that came out decades ago. Will some one please make a comprehensive, easy to use, clip-art book for contemporary designers?!! This one just doesn't cut it.