Set Design Books
Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design
Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design is a week-by-week guide that helps instructors who are new to teaching design, teaching outside of their fields of expertise, or looking for better ways to integrate and encourage non-designers in the design classroom. This book provides a syllabus to teach foundational theatrical design by illustrating process and application of the principals of design in costumes, sets, lights, and sound.
Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater
Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. But like a good magician who refuses to reveal secrets, they have left few clues about their work. Blue-Collar Broadway recovers the history of those people and the neighborhood in which their undersung labor occurred.
Liquid Spaces: Scenography, Installations and Spatial Experiences
Liquid Spaces features a wide spectrum of unconventional environments from today's leading artists, designers, architects, and scenographers. Breaking the boundaries of classic limitations and defying traditional expectations, these spaces reinvent the three-dimensional setting by playing with light, texture, sound, and proportions.
Scenographics: Handmade & 3D Graphic Design
Scenographics explores the creative and promotional potential of set designs and the possibilities of creating a set using innovative design in a multi-dimensional perspective. The goal is to wrap the spectator in an absolute experience. Exploring the world behind the scenes of the designing process, this book analyses the creative techniques and strategic elements of set design such as handmade designing and 3D computer graphics design. Scenographics reveals an exciting aspect of visual design that has scarcely been explored by other publications. It provides an insider's perspective of the intriguing challenges of this creative universe.
Unmasking Theatre Design
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.
Endless Performance: Building for Performing Arts
Newly built, renovated, and innovative soundscaping, all architects are exploring and aiming to establish a new relationship between art, people, and buildings for contemporary life. This book selects the latest and different types of buildings for performing art from around the world.
Scene Design and Stage Lighting
Scene Design and Stage Lighting equips you with the most up-to-date coverage available on scenery, lighting, sound, and technology.
Drafting for the Theatre
Dennis Dorn and Mark Shanda introduce industry-standard drafting and designing practices with step-by-step discussions, illustrations, worksheets, and problems to help students develop and refine drafting and other related skills needed for entertainment set production work. By incorporating the foundational principles of both hand- and computer-drafting approaches throughout the entire book, the authors illustrate how to create clear and detailed drawings that advance the production process.
Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting
All aspects of lighting technology and elements of design are covered in thorough detail. Keller also includes a section on color theory that goes much farther than any lighting design text Ive seen. Although a little advanced for the beginning designer, I recommended my students purchase the book now and use it throughout the next few levels of Lighting Design courses.