The Mir Way.
Final edition now in stock!
About the book.
The biggest challenge we face as digital artists is to make spirited and unique artwork on project after project, day in and day out.
The digital artist's solution to the problem is to always buy better computers, and new software, and optimize workflow. If that doesn't work, you can always blame the client and their project…
If technical optimization and complaining were the solutions to this problem, everyone would be able to do amazing work. But they don’t. And the reason is that - in a fundamental way - the artist's dilemma is a spiritual problem, not a technical one.
The Mir Way tries to shine a light on new paths to becoming a proud, professional artist.
Mir.
Mir is a small design studio that makes images for many of the world's most prolific architectural practices. Mir is known for bridging the gap between running a professional business and executing their craft with artistic integrity and creative inventiveness.
In their first book, The Mir Way, they go in-depth to explain how their operation works.
Is it possible to balance the act of creating something special with living a happier life??
The hard facts.
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The book is printed by the respected Göteborgstrykkeriet in Sweden. The format is 28x22x4cm and it is a 366-page hard-cover book with a textile cover, weighing in at 1,6 kilograms.
Göteborgstryckeriet is environmentally certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, with FSC® (NC-COC-012292) and PEFC™
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What is a strong image?
How to design images?
Image style?
The unknown.
What is perspective?
High resolution disease
Human Relationship to pillows
Flow
Technical execution
The Power of images
The Mir Design Theory
Terroir
Verbalization
About e-mails
Menu of restaurants
Archviz horrors
Reality as lubrication
The Mir Way is to not be professional
References and triggers
Being a good host
The Concept and God
Important projects are dangerous
Image formats
Gestures vs. Stories
Kill Layers
Cultivating a perspective
Mindfulness and images
Killed sketches
White coats
Mir life
Punctuations
Don’t act cool
What is your perspective?
About motivation
Transportation
Signals
Mir is a restaurant
Clients
The workplace
Flow
Technical execution and inventiveness
The Power of the image
Superstition and weird ideas
Teamwork
Why we fail
Sketch reviews
Monsters under your bed
Mir commandments
Character Design
The art of tweaking
The Mir business plan
The client is never right
Forces that act upon us
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3xn
Asas arkitektur
Asif Khan
Big
Cobe
Code
Contreras Earl Architecture
DRMA
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
Einar Jarmund
Eraclis Papachristou Architects
Heatherwick Studio
Henning Larsen Architects
JKMM
Jacques Ferrier Architecture
Jensen & Skodvin
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Kima
Koichi Takada Architects
Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects
Lava
Link Arkitektur
MAD
MVRDV
Mario Cucinella Architects
Meganom
Murr Architekten
Nordic — Office of Architecture
Opaform
Oppenheim Architecture
Precht
Powerhouse Company
Rafael Viñoly Architects
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
Retallack Thompson
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Saunders Architecture
Saunders Architecture
Scau Architecture
Schützdeller Architekten GmbH
Serie Architects
Skog arkitekter
Snøhetta
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Studio Gang
Tadao Ando
Transform
Utopia
White Architects
Xaveer De Geyter Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects
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The book contains numerous illustrations from co-founder Trond Greve Andersen's sketchbook.
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More than 200 previously unpublished sketches, some for highly profiled projects.
Disclaimer
The Mir Way is an attempt to distill some of the thinking that goes on in our studio; it is not a school book on the subject of architectural visualization.
We will do our best to ship books immediately, but in some cases, it might take as long as a week before we are able to send the books. Please have patience with us. We do all the handling and packaging in-house, and we also have images to make and a studio to run.