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| Author(s) | Roger Burrows |
| Illustrator | Roger Burrows |
| Cover artist | Roger Burrows |
| Subject(s) | coloring book |
| Publisher | Running Press |
| Publication date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 1-56138-1098 |
| OCLC Number | 31500010 |
Roger Burrows is a British writer and designer, working in the fields of geometry, design, and architectural form.[1] He has published numerous children's books,[2][3][4] and is best known for his series of geometric design coloring books,[5] developed with Dr. Ensor Holiday,[6][7][8] and published under the names Altair Designs and Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience.
Roger Burrows developed Questron, an interactive book and electronic "wand" system for children.[9] He has produced exhibitions for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, and the Architectural Association in London.
Burrows worked with Dr. Ensor Holiday, of Guy's Hospital, London, in the early 1970s, developing a set of geometric patterns called Altair Designs. Altair Designs were variations of a unique and unusual Islamic design constructed on an arrangement of close packing circles of different sizes, see Bourgoin,1879. The design variations were found to have unique visual properties and served to stimulate the visual imagination. Altair Designs were originally published as coloring books for both adults and children under the Altair Design name.[10] Burrows developed in the late 60's, and still continues to develop, a dynamic geometry of close packing spheres of different sizes where spheres change size and move from one unique close packing arrangement to another - creating unique 3D forms. Burrows has given many lectures on his geometry of close packing spheres as well as lectures on the evolution of geometrical systems through time how they were applied by cultures of times past. Burrows has also developed many designs based on close packing circle arrangements generated by his geometry of spheres, for example, see Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience, and also "Hidden Images," published by Running Press in Philadelphia. Burrows redrew all of the original Altair designs for Wooden Books published in 2009. Altair Designs and Images designs are all based on unique geometrical structures - in the case of Altair Designs they are based on two arrangements of close packing circles and in the case of "Images" designs based on close packing circle arrangements of all sorts plus many other precise geometrical systems. Burrows was an acquaintance, in the late sixties and early seventies, of Francis Huxley, (nephew of Aldous Huxley), David Bohm (quantum physicist), and Idries Shah author and teacher, who encouraged his early exploration of the cultural development of geometrical forms. Burrows is also a developer of interactive products for children, an inventor, and a technology developer having developed and patented Questron, the electronic book system; Booktronics electronic books; Magnix, a print based system that makes paper, card, and plastic magnetically interactive; Photo Q, a means to print high resolution images on fabric; Trimensions a technology that transforms books into three-dimensional experience, and many other technologies. [11] Philadelphia: Running Press, 1992 through to 2011. In addition to US and the UK, editions, editions have been published in Hungary.[12] [13]