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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Changed the way I teach designBy CustomerThis 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. Porters entire design process - sketches and models and all - for a professional set she designed.I was so immediately in love with this book - and it changed my teaching so dramatically - that I had to write to Ms. Porter and tell her just how much her book impacted me. An excerpt of my note to her is below:I am a theatre teacher at a high-school in Cleveland; and one quarter of my class is devoted to theatre design. Last year (my first year teaching); my design unit was pretty terrible. I have a lot of experience with acting and playwriting; but less experience with design; so I felt very uncertain teaching my students; and the big project I had them do was confusing and less helpful than I wanted it to be.This year; I wanted to completely redo my design unit; but I wasnt sure where to start. So I went to a library and asked a librarian for help finding some books on design. The first book he found for me was your book; and I checked it out (along with about 30 other books). Yours was the first I opened; and I spent the rest of my free time that school day reading it; and finished it that evening at home.I immediately scrapped everything I had planned; and created a whole new unit based around the ideas in your book.I know understood - as I hadnt before - HOW designers think; and how they go about the process of design. I also understood now how this process mirrored the creative process that is necessary in every kind of creation and invention.As I experimented with the project I created for my students; I myself found a new interest for design; and a new belief that I could be creative in this way.Your book completely changed my perspective and approach to design; and I think this is going to do wonders for the way that I teach; and the way my students learn.Thank you; thank you; thank you.I am so grateful for the clear and logical way you explain the design process; as well as the loads of pictures and models to illustrate every concept. Your chapter on your Dracula process was particularly exciting and illuminating. My students will be exploring and analyzing your Dracula process as they work through their own design process.Again and again; thank you. I am so grateful for the work that you put in to help your fellow design teachers.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic Book!By Adam MiecielicaThis 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 not be "professional" theatre designers either because they are only taking this class as a required course for the major or because it is extremely difficult to make it in the professional world as a theatrical designer. This book focuses on creative problem solving which is not only important in the theatre but it is also essential in other fields and in life as well. Great pictures; great chapters documenting the authors process on her design of Deitzs Dracula. You are crazy not to check this book out for adoption in your basic design course.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy J. nishballInspiring!