Drafting and Visual Presentation for Interior Designers

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Drafting and Visual Presentation for Interior Designers teaches architectural drafting skills, color rendering, and visual presentation techniques for interior design students. Taking a tutorial approach, this easy-to-read text walks students step-by-step from simple to more complex skills. Every step of the way full-color illustrations and photos help students learn such techniques as concept sketching, drafting floor plans, creating 3-D pictorials, rendering with markers, constructing color boards and models, and cutting a mat. Tear-out worksheets reinforce the competencies for each chapter, providing easy opportunities for students to apply the concepts they have learned.

1. The Design/Graphics Relationship

2. Sketching

3. Drafting and Lettering

4. The Floor Plan

5. Other Architectural Drawings

6. Paraline Drawing

7. Perspective Drawings

8. Shade, Shadow and Reflections

9. Color Theory

10. Rendering

11. Drawing Efficiencies

12. Color Boards and Books

13. The Scale Model

14. The Verbal Presentation

Glossary

Appendices

I. Scaled line drawings of floor plans and interior elevations.

II. How to cut a mat.

Worksheets