Alan Pipes

Alan Pipes (born 19 March 1947 in Bury, Lancashire, England) is a British writer on art, product design and graphic design. He studied physics at the University of Surrey, in Battersea and worked in print publishing, notably as Managing Editor of "Computer-Aided Design" journal (1977-82) [http://www.magforum.com/computer/computermagazines.htm] , published by IPC Science and Technology Press (then Butterworth-Heinemann), and editor of "CadCam International" (1982-85), published by EMAP, before becoming a freelance writer in 1985.

Pipes's college textbooks have become standards in their field, with "Production For Graphic Designers" currently in its 5th printing. Also known as Fred Pipes or Alan (Fred) Pipes (so named after his resemblance to Freddie Garrity singer with the Manchester band Freddie and the Dreamers), he is also a cartoon illustrator, an artist and printmaker, exhibiting regularly in the Brighton [http://www.artistsandmakers.com/article.php?story=2006051511334325] , Adur and Worthing [http://www.artistsandmakers.com/article.php?story=20070530085448455] Artists Open House festivals since 1996. He has been a committee member of the Brighton Illustrators Group since 1990 and has been webmaster of Channel 4's archaeology television programme "Time Team" [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/about.html] since 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Pipes also catalogues short, unusual and misplaced cycle lanes on a website, "Weird Cycle Lanes". According to an article about it in the "Daily Telegraph", 'Some people collect stamps, some people collect beermats, but Alan Pipes collects unusual cycle lanes. He's already acquired a cult following on the South Coast with his web-gallery of improbable, impractical and sometimes impassable bits of municipal road-marking. Now he's expanding his search nationwide to try and find Britain's most ludicrous bus and cycle lanes.' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/motoring/2003/03/21/emfcycle22.xml] [http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/2336794.saddled_with_strange_cycle_paths/]

Published work

As author:
*cite book|title=Drawing for 3-Dimensional Design|publisher=Brown & Benchmark|date=1991-07-25|isbn=069713945X|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Production for Graphic Designers, 4th Edition|publisher=Overlook Press|isbn=1585676691|last=Pipes|first=Alan|date=2005-10-20 5th edition forthcoming 2009. Other editions published by Prentice Hall and Laurence King.
*cite book|title=Foundations of Art and Design|publisher=Laurence King|date=2004-02-01|last=Pipes|first=Alan|isbn=1856693759 (2nd edition 2008).
*cite book|title=Introduction to Design, 2nd Edition|publisher=Prentice Hall|date=2008-08-01|isbn=0132085119|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Drawing for Designers|publisher=Laurence King|last=Pipes|first=Alan|isbn=1856695336|date=2007-08-09. Reviewed in "Design Week", July 19, 2007. [citation|title=Drawing for Designers|journal=Design Week|issn=0950-3676|date=2007-07-19|pages=4|volume=22|issue=29]

In translation:
*cite book|title=Dibujo para disenadores|publisher=Art Blume SL, Barcelona|date=2008|isbn=9788498012507|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Zeichnen fur Designer|publisher=Steibner Verlag GmbH, Munchen|date=2008|isbn=9783830713470|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Design Tridimensionale|publisher=Tecniche Nuove, Milano|date=1991|isbn=8870816869|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Production for graphic designers|publisher=Liu Ho, China|date=1990|isbn=9570384182|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=Zeichnen fur Designer|publisher=Augustus Verlag, Augsburg|date=1990|isbn=3804327354|last=Pipes|first=Alan
*cite book|title=El diseno tridimensional|publisher=Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona|date=1989|isbn=8425214165|last=Pipes|first=Alan

As collaborator:
*"Engineering design" (with Ian Charteris, Andrew Nahum), Science Museum, 1986.
*"Drawing for engineers" (with Paul Grant), Design Council, 1989.

As Editorial Consultant:
*cite book|title=Computer-aided architectural design futures|last=Pipes|first=Alan|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|date=1987-02-01|isbn=0408053003
*"Color" by Edith Anderson Feisner, Laurence King, 2001.
*"New Media Design" by Tricia Austin and Richard Doust, Laurence King, 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.fredpipes.com/ The Pipes portal]
* [http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/ Laurence King Publishing]
* [http://www.overlookpress.com/author.php?author_code=49 Overlook Press]
* [http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0132085119,00.html Pearson Higher Education]