...Boyd’s narrative of the Australian nation created for Australia’s pavilion at Expo’70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history’s ‘modernity problem’. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence of progressive Australian design has precluded significant examination of design’s regressive effects. The current environmental crisis is, as Arturo Escobar argues, ‘a crisis of modernity, to the extent that modernity has failed to enable sustainable worlds.’[1] Design is implicated here for its contribution to environmental degradation, as is design history for accounts that validate designers’ development of concepts, processes and products that impose the unsustainable on societies. The latter is pronounced in Australian design history. When modernity and its cultural manifestations are understood as European inventions, admitting limited scope for cultural exchange, claiming historical significance for Australian design inevitably involves the uncritical application of imported principles.[2] The halting attempts to write Australian design history are mostly bound up in proselytizing for the values and benefits of the modern and eulogising designers’ efforts to force change in the face of conservative cultural establishments and indifferent publics. Even the...
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...Running head: DESIGN HISTORY An analysis of Tony Fry’s approaches to studying and representing design history Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction For a long time, there have been discussions concerning the rewriting of design history. Consequently, the need to re-invent disciplines and approaches to design history has sparked greater intellectual probe on issues of sustainability and credibility. This paper seeks to critically analyze some of the various approaches to studying and representing design history as argued by Tony Fry. The paper will discuss connoisseurship and the object in space and finally assess there effects on the understanding of research design. Design history can be succinctly defined as the study of design based on their respective historical and stylistic contexts. As a discipline, design history has its roots in Britain in the early 1970s. The existing literature indicates that, design history encompasses wide range of issues that revolve around various spheres of the society including social, political, technical, cultural and technical aspects of the society. Consequently, some of the various objects of study include crafts, industrial design, product design, interiors, and fashion among other artistic features (Lees-Maffei, 2009; Clark & Brody, 2009). Furthermore, the original design history has undergone tremendous changes based that have largely shaped the discipline. Fallan (2010) contends that, design history can be said...
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...international typographic style and unrestrained freedom of American design was just as important as the influences on both German design and design around the globe. The American and japan conceptual innovation and visual invention was spread throughout the globe. During the 1980s and 90s the rapid development of electronic and computer technology began to change the process and appearance of design. Overnight these big changes recurred within mail, fax machines and the internet, this all served to further shrink the human community into Marshall Mcluhans global village. Influential People Alan Fletcher is one of the most influential figures in post-war British graphic design. The fusion of the cerebral European tradition with North America’s emerging pop culture in the formulation of his distinct approach made him a pioneer of independent graphic design in Britain during the late 1950s and 1960s. As a founding partner of Pentagram in the 1970s, Fletcher helped to establish a model of combining commercial partnership with creative independence. He also developed some of the most memorable graphic schemes of the era, notably the identities of Reuters and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and made his mark on book design as creative director of Phaidon. Siobhan Keaney After graduating from the LCP, Siobhan Keaney worked briefly for three of London’s most prestigious design companies. She then went on to form her own design studio and with her european influenced graphic methods and...
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...ARTH 391E: History of Graphic Design ------------------------------------------------- Writing Assignment ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE AT 12:30 P.M. ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2014. NO LATE OR E-MAILED PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to engage students in thinking critically about art and also about museum practices, as well as to allow students to improve written communication skills. Format: Your paper should be typed, double-spaced, in a font that is the size of 12 pt. Times New Roman or larger. It should be stapled. Your paper should be between 500 and 1,000 words in length, and you should include a word count at the end of the paper. Your paper should have a cover page, which includes your name, the course number and title, and the title of your exhibition review. Content: Your paper should be an exhibition review of one of the shows currently on view on the second floor of the Ulrich Museum of Art at WSU. You may want to consider some or all of the following questions: 1. Is the work on display of high quality? Are there any exceptionally good or exceptionally poor works? Are all the works of similar quality, or is the show uneven? 2. How are the works displayed? Are they hung well? Are there didactics (wall text, e.g.) or special features to the exhibition? Do these enhance your experience of the exhibition? Do they...
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...who helps them in the operation of the business. Each assisting partners are engaged through Fashion designing, merchandising and styling that helps them throughout achieving the business’ goals. All decisions are made in-line with the company objectives. Each partners’ tasks are delegated based upon their level of expertise, creativity, strengths and weaknesses. Darren Danielle Delos Santos, co-owner and one of the general managers will be responsible for fashion designing and styling. She has spent over 5 years arranging and attending national and international fashion and trade shows. Also, as a fashion designer, the ability in researching and predicting fashion trends are must in her duties and done regularly. She has done various designs putting together cohesive collection themes for years. She has extensive background in choosing fabrics and colors, creating sketches...
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...A Critique of Design in History by Victor Margolin The article Design in History by Victor Margolin discusses the issues between design and the broader subjects within the field of history. He argues that design should be considered of enough importance to be studied as its topic. Margolin also emphasises that the history of design is also significant in other areas of history. Margolin acknowledges the accomplishments of design historians including the wide variety of research that has been conducted and the “growing collection of academic publications.” (Margolin, 2009) However, he criticises the lack of generalisation to other components of history like the social aspects. “Yet despite these accomplishments, the community continues to operate within an intellectual framework that frequently isolates design from much of what other historians do.” (Margolin, 2009) He goes on to describe how subjects such as history of technology, engineering, material culture and many more may also be relevant but that design has failed to engage with these other topics. In the second part of the article, Margolin talks about the successes of technology historians who manage to link subjects of technology and invention to a wider range of other topics. He refers to a book American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970, by Thomas Hughes who described technological inventions in terms of “systems” rather than “individual objects.” According to Margolin, this...
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...Assignment Description: For the unit 2 assignment, I needed to develop a critical path method (CPM) for the design phase of the ABC Video Rental store project. It was suggested that we use table 6-6 from The New Software Engineering by Sue Conger (2008, p. 167) as a guideline for the development of the CPM. Table 6-6 outlines the functional requirements for the program and what different software options, existing or available for development of the application, would be able to meet those requirements. A table that I found more useful for the assignment goals was Table 6-16 which outlined and defined design phase tasks along with an estimated function point value for each task (Conger, 2008, p. 188). After displaying my CPM for the ABC project design phase I will outline the critical path, the various tasks that fit the dependencies from table 6-6, how the various tasks might be distributed between a two-person team of a project manager and software...
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...ntroduction Structures designs are important for smooth operation in any organizations. In the history of organizational design, there are three traditional and three contemporary designs most well-known to the world. This essay will discuss all these six designs and its evolution pattern with extra attention to the use of team in each design. Theories Three traditional organizational designs include function structure, divisional structural and matrix structure. Functional structure puts groups related to similar functions together. Divisional structure divides different product lines into different business unit. In matrix structure, employees from different function department are forming a contemporary team to handle a project. Three contemporary organizational designs include team structure, project structure, and boundary less structure. In team structure, organization is made up of teams without particular dividing. Project structure need assigning employees to contemporary teams on different projects. Teams are dismissed as soon as the project is done. Boundary less structure is a structure without clear line between up and down, inside and outside. Example Pizza Hut is using a functional design. It is divided into seven major department including operation, finance, people, marketing and etc. It is used to achieve high efficiency in relatively simple and routine business environment. British petroleum used virtual team design to share lessons and experience from...
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...composition and revising stages. Acknowledgements contain the following elements: * Full name of all individuals who are being thanked. * A brief statement as to what kind of help the writer has received from each individual, group of people, scholarship, etc. colleague * If you wish to acknowledge the help of family members or friends make sure you restrict the wording of your thanks to a relatively formal register. ABSTRACT This section is limited to 100-150 words (approximately 12-15 lines), singly spaced and must include at least four (4) keywords. Provide a brief overview of the proposal that gives a reader a basic understanding of your proposal and encourages her or him to read more. Keywords: architecture, urban design, built environment, sense of place TABLE OF CONTENTS You can generate the list of graphs, RIGHT CLICK AND UPDATE FIELD. TITLE PAGE | I | Approval SHEET | II | ENGLISH EDITING CERTIFICATION | IV | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IV ABSTRACT V TABLE OF CONTENTS VI LIST OF TABLES VIII LIST OF FIGURES X LIST OF GRAPHS XI THE INTRODUCTION 1 1.1....
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...Design Model 1 Cultural Diversity Training Program Brenda R. Thompson BUS 600 Prof. Richard Hassler May 17, 2010 Design Model 2 Cultural Diversity Training Program The design model of methods and procedures of learning is like a bridge between the “world-as-imagined” and the world-as experienced, where diversity may be a source of innovative problem solving that is combined by experience and knowledge. Learning plays an important role in the transformation of existing knowledge into new design solutions, in order to reflect organizational and human needs for change and the opportunities for such change. Diversity climate is defined as “organizational” members’ attitudes and perceptions toward people from cultural groups other than their own. As we progress toward increasing profits for times, organizations must explore the concepts of social identity differences which are the attitudes and perceptions, manifested in the practices and behaviors of individuals. Human capital and social capital as mentioned in the text are referred to as the potential of the individual contribution (Kinicki & Kreitner, p. 13-14) of organizational learning better known as shared knowledge. The social capital refers to the potential to establish strong relationships, communication and working in teams as an effort to reach a common goal. Organizations can...
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...Truss Bridge Project Research Paper Our class has been assigned a project about the history and structure of Truss Bridges.In order for us to become more familiar and have a better understanding about truss bridges, we had do to some research.While there is a lot of logical engineering that goes into building a truss bridge,our teacher has instructed us to research 2 types of engineering behind the building of truss bridges and answer a few questions about our bridge.The two types we were told to look up and learn about were geotechnical engineering and materials engineering,both of which none of us had ever heard of.As for the geotechnical engineering,we we were to research the environmental and geological factors that should be considered...
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...factors in engineering design theory: a post-positivist approach Terence Love Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering University of Western Australia Social, environmental and ethical factors in engineering design theory: a post-positivist approach Terence Love B.A. (Hons) Engineering This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The University of Western Australia. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 1998 Abstract This research investigated how social, environmental and ethical factors can be better included in theories of engineering design. The research focused on designing as an essentially human activity via consideration of the epistemological and ontological issues involved in constructing coherent design theory. The research investigations led to a clearer understanding of the roles of ontology, epistemology and methodology in design research and this clarification enabled the construction of a post-positivist approach to engineering design theory that better includes social, environmental and ethical factors alongside the existing products of scientific engineering design research. Other contributions to knowledge that emerged from the research process and which underpin the conclusions include; clarification of the terminology and basic concepts of design research and engineering design research, historical...
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...APPLIQUE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 History 2. REGIONS 3. PRODUCER COMMUNITIES 4. RAW MATERIAL USED 5. TOOLS 6. PROCESS 6.1 Designing 6.2 Tracing 6.3 Pasting 6.4 Cutting of shapes/ designs 6.5 Tidying 6.6 Stitching 6.7 Finishing 7. MARKET 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Introduction Patchwork and appliqué are very ancient techniques and sometimes referred to as one. The only difference between them is that patchwork or piecework is the process of seaming small pieces of fabric in to a larger whole, while appliqué is the process of sewing smaller pieces of fabric onto a larger background fabric. It is a technique of forming a single pattern with different pieces of cloth. Pieces of fabric are applied on top of another for decorative or functional purposes. 1.1 History Appliqué is an ancient technique of creating beautiful and decorative items with different pieces of cloth. Nomadic people of the desert have long pieced together their tents and even decorated them with elaborate appliqué. Festive patchwork textiles created for special occasions are found in many places throughout India. Pieced and appliquéd household items are made by women for dowries. These objects include decorative bags, pillows and sitting mats. Appliqué played a part in religious textiles as well. It has long been used to make decorative clothing, because most clothing is used until it is worn out and then again reused to create beautiful patterns out of the worn fabric. This serves both economic and decorative...
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...Aerospace Engineering In my personality assessment I was of the INTP group and I would have been it said I would be a good engineer. Some personality traits that I could offer any career that I chose are my determination and my critical thinking. I chose aerospace engineering because I have always enjoyed building things and thngs that fly. Here is some background on aerospace enginnering. Here is the history of aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering started during the renaissance era the first designs being Leonardo da Vinci and the first manned flight happened in 1783. The career first affected the economy during WWI when they started outfitted the planes for war. Over the decades the process has been industurilized and made easier by the use of machines. They also have redesigned planes to make them mor aerodynamic. One thing that hasn’t changed is the design process. The engineers still need to design the most aerodynamic plane they can....
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...England engaged many artists, designers and manufactures together expanding the design border. However, in 1836 a report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Art and Manufactures (MET) commented on how British-manufactured goods were lacking in quality. This indeed created the Arts and Crafts movement in 1860, where the movement rejected modernity and industry, mainly towards the output of British Industry. As history reaches the 2nd half of the 19th century, the mission of Arts and Crafts movement did not completely establish but instead it provided more opportunities for new designers and more options on the market for consumers. With great support of the design society one of the many talented designers stood out and influenced the style of that period, it was Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1868 where the Arts and Crafts movement was happening. The time period where Mackintosh grew up was between the influences of Japan, which significantly influence his style later on. Mackintosh was part of the Scottish School, where a group of artists and designers establish new and strikingly modern style in 1880s. (V&A) They together worked in Glasgow and created decorative schemes for architectures and design. It can be concluded that Mackintosh grew up in an artistic environment and design was his main passion. He has three outstanding designs that were eye opening during the period and beyond, it is the Glasgow School...
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