Principles of Form and Design

by Wucius Wong

An unprecedented package that gives readers the content of three important references by one of today's most influential design writers. This is a master class in the principles and practical fundamentals of design that will appeal to a broad audience of graphic artists and designers.

Genres: Design, Art, Architecture, Nonfiction, Education

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Born 1936 in Guangdong Province. Studied art and design in the United States from 1961 to 1965. Awarded study grant by the John D. Rockefeller III Fund in 1971, Emeritus Fellowship by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1998, and Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal by the SAR Government in 2007. Worked as Excutive Assistant of the Extramural Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Assistant Curator of the City Museum and Art Gallery, and Principal Lecturer of the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. Participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial of Brazil in 1961, the Shanghai Biennial in 1998, and the “China: 5,000 Years” presented by the Guggenheim Museum at New York in 1998 and at Bilbao in 1999. Retrospective exhibition presented by the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2006, and by the Macao Government in 2010. Work featured in the collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Changzhou Art Museum, British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Sackler Museum of the Harvard University, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Authored many books on art and design published in different languages in Hong Kong, Taipei, New York, Barcelona, and Indonesia. Now Adjunct Professor of the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Museum Expert Adviser to the Leisure and Culture Department of the Hong Kong Government.

Reviews

[Homa · Rating 3 out of 5]

بخش های اولش به معنای واقعی در وصف واژه ی گوگولی بود😍😍😍 ولی بقیش😐خب به زور فکر کنکور باید خونده میشد😐در هر حال وُنگ عزیز خسته نباشی دمت گرم...

[Max Oliveira · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half it's very educative, but it could have been better writted, it's little too robotic and tiring at some points.
The second half, where he speaks about two and three dimensional design is straight up a transcription of narration of a video, but without the video. This makes the reading a whole lot more harder and exhausting, even stressful at some points. Concepts-wise the book is a killer, but the overly objective way the info is presented makes the reading more like a challenge than a pleasureful time.

Still i do recommend it, there's a lot of gold there if you have te focus to find it.

[Eryani N. Yulita · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good reference to know especially the basic principle of forms. This is very helpful to use as a reference for designing three dimensional forms seen in a perspective of art concepts. It has several editions already, but it is still compatible to use in the present, I personally still use this book as my reference.

[Ricardo]

Um clássico do design que continua relevante. No entanto, essa tradução para português tem problemas sérios. Podemos ver isso no título, originalmente "Principles of Form and DESIGN" mas que foi traduzido como "Princípios de Forma e DESENHO". A confusão vai se multiplicando cada vez o autor se refere a "design" e não a desenho.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

read in college

[Negin razzaghi]

useful for my major