Surfacedesign

The first book to present the work of Surfacedesign, an innovative San Francisco landscape architecture and urban design firm with major public and private projects throughout the Bay Area and in Hawaii, Mexico, and New Zealand. This monograph explores the design philosophy of the three partners of Surfacedesign, who are committed to solutions that emerge from the site itself and challenge conventional approaches to landscape. The work is informed by the vast openness and frontier spirit of the West, expressed in rugged materials and sustainable planting. Surfacedesign focuses on cultivating a sense of connection to the built and natural world, pushing people to engage with the landscape in new ways. The design approach emphasizes and celebrates the unique context and imaginative potential of each project. The studio's process is rooted in asking novel questions and listening to a site and its users, a process that has led to engaging and inspiring landscapes that are rugged, contemporary, and crafted. Twenty-five projects are presented, ranging in scale from the landscape approach to Auckland International Airport in New Zealand to intimate residential gardens in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Featured are Anaha, a Honolulu residential complex overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Land's End Lookout in the Golden Gate National Recreation area, Barnacles, a community gathering space on the Embarcadero, restoration of the Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, the first commercial winery in California, and the landscape for the Museum of Steel in Monterrey, Mexico, a repurposed foundry that now incorporates the largest green roof in Central America.

Sensational sewing projects demand fabulous fabrics! Fiber artist Cheryl Rezendes shows you how to create an astonishing array of surface designs, simply and safely, using textile paints and printing ink. She covers a wide variety of techniques: stamping, ancient Japanese Shibori, silkscreen, soy wax and flour resist, image transfer, marbling, nature printing, foils and metal leaf, and more. Step-by-step photographs illustrate every technique, and Rezendes includes innovative suggestions on how to combine and layer techniques for stunningly original results.

The Must-Have Reference Tool For Surface Design Success. Create your own hand-painted designs on fabrics, paper, and more. Expert advice from popular art quilter and surface design teacher Jane Dávila. Learn the basics of mixing paints and see how easy it is to create your own effects. Includes 7 projects and an inspirational fiber art gallery. Discover the secrets of using mediums. Create fun designs with found objects. Add new dimension to your quilts and fiber art.

This studio reference captures all the popular techniques available for embellishing clay, as well as a wealth of practical information and detailed images that lead readers through every phase of the design and decorating process.

Whether you want to marble paper, stamp on fabric, or etch into wood, Playing with Surface Design: Modern Techniques for Painting, Stamping, Printing and More will provide endless inspiration.

This textbook explains how to create freeform surface and modify them to create freeform face of a solid body using Siemens NX 12. NX is a three dimensional CAD/CAM/CAE software developed by Siemens PLM Software Inc., Germany. Users of NX 9, 10 and 11 can use this book with minor modifications. We provide files for exercises via our web- site. Most of all files are in NX 6.0 so readers can open the files using NX 6.0 and later releases. It is assumed that readers of this textbook understand basic modeling process with NX. He/She has to be able to create sketch and fully constrain it, create the extruded and re- volved features, apply boolean operation between solid bodies and understand how to use part navigator and selection toolbar. This textbook is suitable for anyone interested in creating mechanical surface and applying for solid body using Siemens NX. Topics covered in this textbook - Chapter 1: Basic components of Siemens NX 12, options and mouse operations. - Chapter 2: Introduction to surface modeling process of NX 12. - Chapter 3 and 4: Creating Ruled and Through Curves surface. - Chapter 5: Face analysis. - Chapter 6, 7, 8 and 9: Creating Through Curve Mesh, Swept, Studio Surface and Varia- tional Sweep surface. - Chapter 10: Commands for creating curves. - Chapter 11: Other helpful commands for creating surface model. - Chapter 12: Modeling projects. - Chapter 13: Modeling bumper surface of Audi Q5.

This collection of ideas and results on topics of curve and surface design is intended for research in the academic environment as well as for practical use in industrial applications. Main emphasis is on minimal energy splines and geometric spline curves, and on techniques beyond tensor product surfaces.

SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal and Surface Design 2023 for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook has been designed for instructor-led courses as well as self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers interested in learning SOLIDWORKS for creating real-world sheet metal components and surface designs. This textbook is a great help for SOLIDWORKS users new to sheet metal and surface designs. It consists of total 224 pages covering the sheet metal and surface design environments of SOLIDWORKS. It teaches users to use SOLIDWORKS mechanical design software for creating parametric 3D sheet metal components and complex shapes of surface models that may not be possible with solid modeling because of its limitations. This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools and commands of SOLIDWORKS for creating sheet metal components and surface models but also on the concept of design. It contains theory followed by tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating sheet metal components and surface models. Moreover, it ends with Hands-on Test Drives which allow users to experience the user friendly interface and technical capabilities of SOLIDWORKS.