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Typography in Design

Typography may be dated back to the eleventh century, all through the innovation of movable type. Before the virtual age, typography changed into a specialised craft related to books and magazines, and ultimately public works. The first instance of typography may be visible in the Gutenberg Bible, which commenced a […]

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Sustainable Design

Sustainable design seeks to lower the negative impacts that materials have on the environment and ecosystem. It in fact, increases the comfort of the inhabitants and improves building performance.   Eagleyew house  Eagleyew house and eagle nest sanctuary is a beautifully sculpted custom green home built with nearly 100 natural materials. […]

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RALPH GILLES- AUTOMOTIVE DESIGNING

Ralph Gilles’ struggles to pursue his dream. He was persistent on his dream to design cars, beautiful cars. The artistic style appealed to him more, he was sure about his interest in design since a very young age. His aunt encouraged him to write a letter to Mr. Iacocca and […]

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Archaic Greek Sculptures

The earliest enormous stone figures (kouroi – naked male adolescents and kore-dressed female figures) were inflexible as in Egyptian fantastic sculptures with the arms held directly along the edges, the feet are practically together and the eyes gaze vacantly ahead with no specific outward appearance. These fairly static figures gradually […]

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Egyptian Sculptures

Egyptian Sculptures- Egyptian craftsmen, whose aptitudes are best exemplified in form, viewed themselves basically as craftspeople. Inferable from their control and exceptionally created stylish sense, nonetheless, the results of their speciality have the right to rank as craftsmanship extraordinary by any principles. A great part of the enduring model is […]

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Ziggurats Versus Pyramids

Ziggurats and pyramids incredibly vary regarding reason or capacity. Pyramids were initially thought to be the last resting spots of the pharaohs yet later archaeological finds have revealed that they were worked with tight shafts reaching out from within to the external surface to lift the pharaoh’s spirit unto the […]

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Art History

The three paintings shown are Madame de Pompadour 1756 by François Boucher, Mona Lisa 1503 by Leonardo da Vinci and The Girl with the Pearl Earring 1665 by Johannes Vermeer.  The first painting of Madame de Pompadour, was by Francois Boucher, it’s a Rococo painting and like other artists of […]

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Le Grand Jihad- Sufism in Chechnya

What is the Zikr?  Three concentric circles of men, swing and sway to the beat of the chant. They stomp in time with the cadence of the chants and grunt from their abdomen and throat, the sounds filling the room. Every so-often one voice rises over the rest and the […]

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Ritual Burdens

The Story of Ni Ketut Kasih Ni Ketut Kasih is a widow who lives in a small village in Bali, Indonesia. She is a proud mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve grandchildren. She’s lived her whole life surrounded by the complex cadences and mandates of the Balinese […]

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BIOMIMICRY

Kira hunt is a landscape technologist working in Canada and specializing in park design, structural detailing, and heritage interpretation. Now, she works on biomimicry and learning strategies from nature that can improve our cities and bring us closer to the natural world. WHAT IS BIOMIMICRY? Biomimicry means to imitate life, […]

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Apple Products

Successful long term innovative companies have a broad vision mantra. Apple’s is “How do we make your life easier.” The main vision for apple product designers is observed to be improved accessibility, simplicity, and increase in functionality. In fact, the design seems to be of utmost importance in apple products […]

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Dr. Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju

Born as Angad Gummaraju, Trinetra grew up always feeling alienated from her own body and plagued by society’s norms of gender identity. Having faced immense scrutiny and provocation from both society and her peers over the years for being different, finally, at the age of 20 she made the brave […]

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The Enlightenment – The Great ‘Age of Reason’

Considered as a profound turning point in the intellectual history of the West, the era of Enlightenment was both a movement and a state of mind to those who sought logic and reason to contradict the then ever-present traditional beliefs. The principal targets of these thinkers were religion (the Catholic […]

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Design Thinking

How did we end up here? In a technologically advanced era? With people that are aware of our progression towards a more electronically-enabled environment? Would it be possible without asking simple questions and analyzing? Design thinking has been helping us solve problems and develop for personal, national, even global use. […]

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