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New developments occur when boundaries are crossed Today, the most progressive designers are working at the intersection of various creative disciplines. They are challenging existing design principles and defining them anew. Many designers from different areas are choosing to no longer work exclusively in two dimensions and are instead dealing intensively with space, material and physical products. The book Hidden Track investigated this development in 2005 and portrayed it in its breadth for the first time.

Now, Tactile shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products and presents graphic design that works with space - or the perception of space. The book focuses less on murals than on products, objects, installations and collage that demonstrate how designers are developing and implementing their ideas spatially from the very outset of a given project. Tactile proves that spatial innovation in graphic design is not limited to personal work or artistic endeavors for exhibition, but is being sought out more and more often by commercial clients, for example in store design.

With its insight into this experimental field of graphic design, Tactile targets young, progressive designers as well as professionals from the fields of advertising, architecture and interior design. Because its topical content is compiled in a way that highlights the interesting multi-disciplinary interactions between the various works, Tactile also offers inspiration for creatives in fashion, lifestyle and art..
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Voted "Teacher of the Year" by The Austism Society of America, Toni Flowers has more than twenty years of experience teaching individuals with autism. She believes all children benefit from art because it encourages creativity. As a result, children with autism may find a form of expression when they've been handicapped by delayed and/or disturbed language skills and/or abnormal sensory responses. Reaching the Child with Autism Through Art offers teachers and parents specific tools and "plans" in four mediums; collage, painting, play and sculpture..
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Grade K-1. Includes both sets of Lowercase and Uppercase Tactile Letters plus and activity guide.

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The first edition of this book (E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch, Academic Press, 1978) has long been out of print. Interest in Weber's work continues, and this revised edition commemorates the bicentenary of his birth. It is published through the cooperation of the Experimental Psychology Society and Psychology Press Ltd.The title has been broadened to reflect the fact that Weber explored all the skin senses - and indeed the muscle sense and that mysterious entity "the common feeling". The introduction has been expanded to include further information on Weber's life and times, and on recent research relevant to Weber's on work. The translations of Weber's main works of psychological interest (De Tactu and Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefühl) contain only minor changes, but the footnotes have been updated.

The reader will find here much more than those topics for which Weber is best known - the two-point threshold, experiments on weight discrimination and a statement of what is now called Weber's Law.Weber also made interesting remarks on many aspects of sensory psychology - on left-right asymmetry in sensitivity, on visual resolution, the binocular combination of colors, the moon illusion, on summation, inhibition and adaptation in sensory systems, on the difference between simultaneous and successive presentations, on selective attention, the externalization of sensations and the difference between sensation and perception. As a scientist, Weber was working in the new area of experimental psychology. As a philosopher, he bridged the gap between philosophy and experiment. His work remains of interest to historians of science, to philosophers and to sensory psychologists..
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Touch Graphics examines a wide array of innovative and often experimental graphic design pieces that have incorporated imaginative materials like fur, velvet, plastic, and metal to convey powerful messages and connect with audiences on a deeper level. Tactile designs feed our most neglected sense in a digital world that focuses aggressively on visual and audio stimulation and the authors celebrate and showcase the remarkable power they have to engender wonder, excitement, and a sense of ownership in today's consumers. An invaluable idea book and resource, this stimulating collection will inspire designers to open their minds-and their art-to include new forms and shapes, and insightful text will tell the reader the technical hurtles (if any) that were apart of the design process..
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"Tricky language about the sticky stuff: this is bedroom-and-beyond talk from the past master, the rake, the raider, the witty and lonely rider. Enjoy here a bard's bodywork, least love's locutions You have never read such confessions John Donne, meet Mark Scott."-Alicia Ostriker

"Mark Scott is one of our finest American poets. And here is, I think, his most challenging work. From the first sentence of A Bedroom Occupation we are taken by a voice that is unsentimental and unafraid of the dark on a nighttime tour of solitude."-Richard Rodriguez

Untangling the aftermath of gratified desire, Mark Scott's melancholy, letter-like poems are not always easy, not always pleasant, but you'll read him wide-eyed, laughing, identifying with the characters and the situations-unless you've never had lovers or friends:

Lewis, you tell me not to choose my freedom, a desolate heart, but to remain in delight
with one woman. Too late; I moved out; I can't retrieve
that message where you sent it: Lauren changed our code. And if I could, why should
what works for our friend work for me? He seems happy,
says he's comfortable (which reminds him he doesn't have "the fuck-you money yet").
And he's consistent, stable. But his waters don't run deep.
Mine do-or so I've been told. "If that's how you feel," Lauren said, "you'd better
move out."

Mark Scott, author of Tactile Values, has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where he teaches at the College of Saint Mary.

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Grades K-1. Use these Lowercase letters to teach and reinforce letter recongnition and beginning phonics. Each letter has a sandpaper feel. Perfect for young children. 27 sturdy cards in each set 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" (7cm x 8.5cm).

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Grades K-1. Use these uppercase letters to teach and reinforce letter recongnition and beginning phonics. Each letter has a sandpaper feel. Perfect for young children. 27 sturdy cards in each set. 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" (7cm x 8.5cm).

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