Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design – from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.
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Fantastic Book! This book is not as “flashy” as some other introduction to theatre design textbooks. I have used other texts for post-secondary Freshman level design classes and I am excited to have adopted this book this semester. It has made me completely rethink how I approach this course. This book focuses on what is really important for ALL theatre artists; how to generate ideas and how to develop a useful and productive creative process. Lets be honest, most of the students we teach will…
Changed the way I teach design This book will not disappoint! If you are interested in learning HOW designers think, and how their design process works, this book is for you! It is packed full of color illustrations, and one whole chapter covers Ms. Porter’s entire design process – sketches and models and all – for a professional set she designed.Â