By Hound & Eye, Walker & Tolpin (workbook)

By Hound & Eye: A Plain & Easy Guide to Designing Furniture with no Further Trouble is an illustrated cartoon journey through the world of pre-industrial design geometry. It stars Journeyman and his pizza-loving dog, Snidely, as they untangle the realm of points, segments, arcs and the three-dimensional world using nothing more than a compass, straightedge and pencil. After each new idea is introduced, you are shown how to perform the exercise yourself right in the workbook.

You can perform all the exercises in an afternoon, and even if you have been steeped in geometry for years, you will experience several eye-opening moments. The book connects geometry to furniture design, and the exercises ensure the lessons will make it from the page and into your fingers. Authors George Walker and Jim Tolpin have given their work the look and feel of a middle-school workbook, complete with slightly corny jokes. Hand illustrated and hand lettered by Andrea Love.

It is a companion to the hardbound book By Hand & Eye by Walker and Tolpin. By Hand & Eye focuses more on the history behind the geometrical systems and offers projects, while By Hound & Eye is concerned mostly with practical exercises not found in the hardbound book.

192 pages, softcover with sewn and glued binding. Published by Lost Art Press and printed in the United States.