A Bit of Looking and Seeing with Kurt Rowland

 Managed to pick these wonderful Kurt Rowland books up sometime ago. This series of books seems to have drifted in and out of my life for decades. I 1st remember seeing these at School in our strange old tatty library, then came across them again years later when at University. Was reminded many years after that when I saw them on the Toys and Techniques blog not long after that I decided to track them down. I am still missing the Development of Shape and The Shape of Towns. These do crop up on ebay and maybe one day I will get round to picking them up.

More Basic Design Slides

As promised (see previous post) some more wonderful slides from The Focal Point Basic Design Slide collection (1968)

 

A Box of Delights. A Box of Basic Design Slides

A while back I had the good fortune to come across a wonderful box of Slides, these slides were produced by Focal Point and were called Basic Design Slides. In the box were a total of 168 slides. The best way to describe these slides would be that they are very similar to the images/shapes/graphics in Kurt Rowlands Looking and Seeing series of books (Pattern and Shape, The Shapes we Need, The Development of Shape and The Shape of Towns) I passed these on to my friend Mr Stevens, who very kindly scanned the whole lot. They are really very good, and to be honest I will probably use them at a later date. But until then, here is a very small selection.