The Mir Way.

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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.

 
  • 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™

  • 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

  • 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

  • The book contains numerous illustrations from co-founder Trond Greve Andersen's sketchbook.

  • 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.