Richard Geoffroy, the Chef de Cave at Dom Perignon, believes that serving champagne in a white wine glass improves the taste of the product because flutes concentrate the fizz, but also decrease the aroma of more complex wines, "You taste the way you see. A narrow flute will narrow the taste, an ample wine glass will amplify the taste, a flat saucer will flatten the taste" (Cloake, 2012)
Further, the hostess of today would rarely think of using the same placemats and dinnerware for more than one party, there must be a unifying theme or aesthetic to the use of design (Sudjic, 2009). Broadly speaking, Universal Design (UD) is a rubric in which professionals strive to umbrella several issues together to form a more coherent and synergistic style and philosophy of design; products that are ecologically responsible and safe, designs that enhance the beauty as well as the physical comfort and ease of use of the building, and an approach that engenders psychographic unity while still providing the possibility for the greatest number of people to afford the benefits of appropriate design (Dorsa, 2002)
Since the Renaissance, this is the proportion that has been used by artists and architects to proportion their works for mass appeal. Fascinating, however, is just how many objects in nature follow this exact proportion: animal, plant, or object and even drawings of the human body from the Ancient Greeks to Leonardo da Vinci (Elam, 2001)
By the 1970s, phones had morphed into individual designer expressions, emulating Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, or other comic or movie tie-in characters -- the "function" had not changed, but the design factor based on consumer perceptions had evolved. Too, this had an impact on the special needs groups -- phones were designed to be multifunctional, operable with more than just a dial, and more portable -- function, but with a better solution for individualized needs (Heskett, 2002)
As technology further developed, the phone became smaller and smaller -- witness the first cell phones, large boxy creatures that were ungainly without long battery life to the small, tiny hand held computer that has 20-30 times more computing and media power than the NASA's Apollo program computers. Technology drove design which responded to function which circled and responded to need, including needs for the special population (Norman
As technology further developed, the phone became smaller and smaller -- witness the first cell phones, large boxy creatures that were ungainly without long battery life to the small, tiny hand held computer that has 20-30 times more computing and media power than the NASA's Apollo program computers. Technology drove design which responded to function which circled and responded to need, including needs for the special population (Norman
Even in something like furniture can be based on the idea of the Golden Mean triangle of perfect proportion. For instance, the curve proportion, the way the back of the chair or sofa fits the individual, and even the way the balance of the item interacts with the floor all become part of the Golden section (Petroski, 1994)
Both the challenge and the uniqueness of design then, is that there are no universal or unifying definitions or institutions that define exactly what design should and should not be, or whether it is correctly designed or not. (Ralph & Wand, 2009) if we think about it, design is all around us -- in nature everywhere
There may be 1,000 different types of cups that essentially do the same job. Further, the hostess of today would rarely think of using the same placemats and dinnerware for more than one party, there must be a unifying theme or aesthetic to the use of design (Sudjic, 2009)
Of course, this is considered a marvel of structural engineering. The site is believed to have been first seen by Europeans in the late 1500's when curious Portuguese tradesmen from the nearby West Africa coast heard rumors from tribesman of a great city in the interior (Ampim)
Of course this was not a naturally occurring site, but the people who built it were in doubt for many years because archeologist and others refused to believe that it could have been constructed by indigenous people. The site is called The Great Zimbabwe because it is the largest of more than 200 (Trade) which exist in different Southern African nations
African Art The Trade Center/Royal Residence of the Great Zimbabwe Within the jungles of Southern Africa is a palace that has been standing there for more than seven centuries. This group of walls and buildings whose "beautifully coursed walls curved and undulated sinuously over the landscape, blending into the boulder-strewn terrain as if having arisen there naturally" (Tyson)
African Aesthetics Artefacts from Africa exhibit their cultural context. Indeed, there is value in emphasizing formal aesthetics of objects and their expression of the religious and moral values (Ray, 1993) There is a moral basis in African aesthetics
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Aesthetics, also spelled esthetics , the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned with the nature ...
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