Alan Pipes (born 19 March 1947 in
Bury, Lancashire
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The town is within the Historic counties of Englan ...
,
England
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) is a British writer on
art
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There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
,
product design
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and
graphic design
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. He studied physics at the
University of Surrey
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, in Battersea and worked in print publishing, notably as Managing Editor of ''Computer-Aided Design'' journal (1977–82), published by
IPC Science and Technology Press (then
Butterworth-Heinemann
Butterworth–Heinemann is a British publishing company specialised in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of Hein ...
), and editor of ''CadCam International'' (1982–85), published by
EMAP
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History
Ric ...
, 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
Frederick Garrity (14 November 1936 – 19 May 2006) was an English singer and actor. He was best known as the frontman of Freddie and the Dreamers from 1959 until his retirement in 2001.
Biography
Born in Crumpsall, Manchester, the eldest ...
singer with the Manchester band
Freddie and the Dreamers
Freddie and the Dreamers were an English beat band that had a number of hit records between 1963 and 1965. The band's stage act was enlivened by the comic antics of Freddie Garrity, who would bounce around the stage with arms and legs flying.
...
), he is also a cartoon illustrator, an artist and printmaker, exhibiting regularly in the
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
,
Adur and
Worthing
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Artists Open House
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festivals since 1996. He has been a committee member of the Brighton Illustrators Group since 1990 and has been webmaster of
Channel 4
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's archaeology television programme ''
Time Team
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'' since 1998. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts
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.
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
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
'', '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.'
Published work
As author:
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* 5th edition. US edition published by Prentice Hall.
* (2nd edition 2008).
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*. Reviewed in ''
Design Week
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'', July 19, 2007.
In translation:
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As collaborator:
*"Engineering design" (with Ian Charteris, Andrew Nahum), Science Museum, 1986.
*"Drawing for engineers" (with Paul Grant), Design Council, 1989.
As Editorial Consultant:
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*"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, .
References
External links
The Pipes portalLaurence King PublishingOverlook Press
2009-10-24)
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1947 births
Living people
British illustrators
People from Bury, Greater Manchester