On 26/08/2010, at 12:26 AM, Terence Love wrote:
> I'd be grateful if anyone would send me details of texts in graphic design
> and/or information design that catalogue and analyse the use in engineering
> design of the large number of different types of diagramming and drawing
> formats found in the different fields of engineering design/drafting
> practice.
Terry,
One of the best in our research library (available to our Members) is:
Robert L. Harris (1999).
Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference.
Oxford University Press.
One of my favourites is a wonderful celebration of Engineering Drawing. It was published as an exhibition catalogue for an Exhibition at the the Science Museum in London. It's called:
The Art of the Engineer
It was published by the Welsh Arts Council in 1978
ISBN 0 905171 35 7
I have a copy, and I used it extensively in my book 'Learning and Visual Communication'
One of my favourites in the catalogue is a full colour drawing, with all dimensions shown, for a steam locomotive from one of the great engine building factories of the 19th Century.
As a further social footnote on this type of drawing, I think it's always important to see this type of drawing as an instrument for controlling labour, whether in a factory or building site. Indeed, it was one of the primary instruments of labour control in the 19th and 20th Century industrial society.
There is a possible lost metaphor and irony here, when it comes to the London Underground. Diagrams of this genre were normally used to control what people did in the workplace. In the LUD it gave the same workers choices! Is this an early celebration of the emerging activity of popular tourism and the mood of futurism in the 1930s?
There's another phd for a design historian!
David
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