design

Design is the process of determining the form, function, appearance or characteristics of something, usually in a tangible medium. There are many categories of design, including graphic design, industrial design, fashion design, and interior design. Design is closely linked to art and can be considered the expression of an artistic aesthetic in a practical environment.

Historically design tends to be characterized by dominant themes and movements, particularly in areas of art, graphics, and architecture. Important design movements or periods include Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and avant-garde.

A large element of contemporary industrial design is web design, which includes both the technical and aesthetic aspects of creating websites.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “design”

 

• 5 Cool and Innovative Clothes Hanger Designs

  
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  Clothes hanger probably are one of most common life objects. Except the material, they haven’t changed a lot since they were invented. You might never connect “cool” and “innovative” with hanger. Thanks to below creative designers who put some deep thoughts and give a new life to clothes hanger. There are so ...
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• “Judith” by...

  
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  “Judith” by escume.deviantART.com annadittmann : “Judith” A sketchy piece done for class and partially inspired by Klimt’s Judith annadittmann.com
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• Floating Tables: Legless Furniture Defies Gravity by Design

  
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  Freeing your feet from the worry of bumping into sub-surface supports, these clever round and rectangular tables look dizzyingly legless at first glance. Of course, close inspection quickly reveals the mechanism behind the initial mystery – the loads are translated down through single-side arms attached to the ...
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• Web Design – Social Media Collateral and HTML Mailer Template

  
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  Payments Offered: USD$300 Deadline: Sunday, May 26, 2013 Go to Source
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• British Engineering in Effect. Flat-pack Truck Design for Developing Countries.

  
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  Imagine a crate of trucks that can be shipped on-site, built within a day, then sent to the four corners of the country delivering food, people, animals, medicine or a new shipment of mobile devices. Our first world problem encompass jamming 1000 pieces of $9.99 flat-packed furniture into small, hybrid cars. In ...
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• Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues – Official Trailer | Video

  
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  The most dysfunctional news room within the San Diego area is back this December as funnyman Will Ferrell reprises his role of mustachioed anchor Ron Burgundy in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues . Along with Veronica Corningstone ( Christina Applegate ), Brian Fantana ( Paul Rudd ), Brick Tamland (Steve ...
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• Afghanistan and the quest for beauty: a tale of pottery, or sort of

  
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  I was thinking what it would be like to have someone -- a stranger -- walk into your pottery studio in Kabul, in Afghanistan, when you were just about to leave. And to have this person, a woman, a foreigner, admire your work. The lines, the forms, the grace. And to then -- even though you are late -- decide ...
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• 8 awesome CSS tools for productive web design

  
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  Recently I’ve been looking for tools to improve my web design workflow, especially to work with CSS better. In this post you can discover some of the tools I have discovered in my quest. 1. CSS Gallery No script needed, a pure CSS gallery downloadable on Github . 2. Shame.css An idea that will not save you ...
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• Massimo Vignelli makes books

  
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  You always learn by looking how great designers work. Massimo Vignelli is famous for his great book designs, he shares how he works in this short video for Mohawk . You can see how he uses a grid under his sketching page and even sketches every photo from the book.
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• Local Motors Uses Makerbot for Production Rally Fighter Parts

  
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  File this under your ‘good uses for 3D printing’ stack. The Local Motors Lab Team has been actively using the MakerBot Replicator 2 3D Printer to print prototypes, scale-down versions of parts, and smaller replicated pieces. Lo and behold, one of these sample parts actually found it’s way onto the Rally ...
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• Rhinoceros 5.3 Corporate Edition Multilingual (x86/x64)

  
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  Rhinoceros 5.3 Corporate Edition Multilingual (x86/x64) | 78.3/99.8 MB The Rhino 5 development process started more than five years ago with one overriding goal—to remove as many of your workflow bottlenecks as possible. That meant making Rhino faster and able to handle much larger models and project teams, in ...
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• Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season

  
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  MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season. Visit link: Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season
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• Is the Intelligent Designer an interventionist? A reply to Felsenstein and Liddle

  
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  In a recent post over at Panda’s Thumb , entitled, Does CSI enable us to detect Design? A reply to William Dembski (7 April 2013), Professor Joe Felsenstein takes issue with the claim made by Professor William Dembski and Dr. Bob Marks II that Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, far from solving ...
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• Swedish design makes castor oil cool

  
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  Dirk Winkels slick desk lamp uses a bioplastic free of fossil fuel.
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• The Daily Lamp – Flank Light, from Sonja Tonev (Which is AWESOME)

  
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  Todays Daily Lamp is absolutely excellent; I was pretty excited to look into its background, design, and ideas!  Sonja Tonev , a Serbian designer, has created an atypical lamp form that works in any configuration you can imagine, including hanging it from something.  Or standing it on its side or end.  Or ...
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• Drywall Texture : How To Techniques, Sprayer And Tools

  
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  Drywall Texture : How To Techniques, Sprayer And Tools. Drywall texture is a technique that is used to create artistic patterns to a drywall. Most people prefer a plain wall but textures too look beautiful. But, one has to maintain consistency in designing and applying the texture design. There are many types of them. ...
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• New Study Released for Newly Constructed Hospitals to Reduce Energy Consumption 62 Percent

  
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  In the wake of the economic recession and reforms instated by the Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA), the impact to hospitals’ bottom line remains uncertain. According to a recent report by Moody’s , the federal government will cut reimbursements to hospitals by more than $150 billion over the next 10 years. ...
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• Yahoo unleashes Flickr redesign, users get 1TB free storage

  
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  Yahoo just completely redesigned its Flickr photo sharing service, putting the images front and center, and giving each user a full 1TB of data. Thats right--every Flickr user get 1 full terabyte of data to store their images. As Flickr says, "we want all of your images," according to Adam Cahan, Yahoo SVP. The ...
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• Driving records on alien terrains

  
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  In honor of its Opportunity rover which has been doing some intensive Mars sightseeing for close to a decade, NASA came up with a infographic chart that showed the distances that have been embarked on by its other vehicles on terrains out there in space. The Opportunity has roved 35.760 kilometers around the rim of ...
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• iOS design in the future: Almost flat

  
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  This is along the lines of what I would expect in iOS. Not throwing everything away, but more updating and modernizing the interface. ∞ Read this on The Loop
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