Alan Pipes Explained

Alan Pipes (born 19 March 1947 in Bury, Lancashire, England) is a British writer on art, product design and graphic design.

Biography

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),^[1] 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,^[2] Adur and Worthing^[3] 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 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 to find Britain's most ludicrous bus and cycle lanes.'^{[4] [5]}

Published work

As author:

• Book: Pipes, Alan. How to Design Websites. Laurence King. 2011-10-17. 978-1-85669-739-2. 719428980.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Drawing for 3-Dimensional Design. Brown & Benchmark. 1991-07-25. 0-697-13945-X. 26470033.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Production for Graphic Designers, 4th Edition. Overlook Press. 978-1-85669-601-2. 2005-10-20. 62860548. 5th edition. US edition published by Prentice Hall.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Foundations of Art and Design. Laurence King. 2004-02-01. 1-85669-375-9. 53459836. (2nd edition 2008).
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Introduction to Design, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. 2008-08-01. 978-0-13-208511-3. 212893712.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Drawing for Designers. Laurence King. 978-1-85669-533-6. 2007-08-09. 124981695. . Reviewed in Design Week, July 19, 2007.^[6]

In translation:

• Book: Pipes, Alan. Diseño de sitios web. Promopress. 2011. 978-84-92810-26-0.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Concevoir un Site Web: L'idée et la Forme. Pyramyd NTCV. 2011. 978-2-35017-243-9.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Dibujo para disenadores. Art Blume SL, Barcelona. 2008. 978-84-9801-250-7.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Zeichnen fur Designer. Steibner Verlag GmbH, Munchen. 2008. 978-3-8307-1347-0. 226296206.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Design Tridimensionale. Tecniche Nuove, Milano. 1991. 88-7081-686-9.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Production for graphic designers. Liu Ho, China. 1990. 957-0384-18-2.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. Zeichnen fur Designer. Augustus Verlag, Augsburg. 1990. 3-8043-2735-4. 231001676.
• Book: Pipes, Alan. El diseno tridimensional. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona. 1989. 84-252-1416-5. 42388146.

As collaborator:

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

As Editorial Consultant:

• Book: Pipes, Alan. Computer-aided architectural design futures. Butterworth-Heinemann. 1987-02-01. 0-408-05300-3. 15472047 .
• "Color" by Edith Anderson Feisner, Laurence King, 2001.
• "New Media Design" by Tricia Austin and Richard Doust, Laurence King, 2007.

Fiction

• Pipes, Alan (Fred) (2013-4-11). Murder on the Gatwick Express, Vernier Press, .
• Pipes, Alan (Fred) (2014). The Fracking Cult Murders, Vernier Press, .

External links

• The Pipes portal
• Laurence King Publishing
• Overlook Press
• Pearson Higher Education
• Weird cycle lanes of Brighton (Archived 2009-10-24)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Computer Magazines | Magforum | Computer user magazines. www.magforum.com.
2. Web site: Brighton Festival (Yes, All of It) Reviewed - artistsandmakers.com . 16 September 2008 . 23 July 2012 . https://archive.today/20120723213459/http://www.artistsandmakers.com/article.php?story=2006051511334325 . dead .
3. Web site: Artists and Makers - Artists + Makers Festival Open Houses, Studios & Gardens . 16 September 2008 . 17 August 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070817122920/http://www.artistsandmakers.com/article.php?story=20070530085448455 . dead .
4. News: Going nowhere . https://archive.today/20120912103345/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/motoring/2003/03/21/emfcycle22.xml . dead . 2012-09-12 . The Daily Telegraph . London . Christopher . Middleton . 2003-03-22 . 2010-04-23.
5. Web site: Saddled with strange cycle paths. The Argus.
6. Drawing for Designers. Design Week. 0950-3676. 2007-07-19. 4. 22. 29.