Caring For Windows, Doors & Tiles While the choice of window and door material is important even at the house plan stage, the right maintenance of doors, windows and floor would make it easy to keep everything looking spic and span. Aside from making them appealing even if years have passed, proper maintenance also has a lot of other benefits. There would be less wear and tear and repairs would be avoided. If this happens, there is no need to spend a whole lot of cash too. Since windows, doors…
Graphics and Design 110 deals with the scientific process, which is a highly concentrated methodology focusing on the five-step Engineering Design Process. The five-step Engineering Design Process has been constructed to provide a rigorous, repeatable, formal scientific methodology to engineering problems. These steps are as follows: Define the Problem, Gather Information, Generate Multiple Solutions, Analyze and Select a Solution, and Test and Implement the Solution. This design process is a…
Learning you are diagnosed with breast cancer is one of the most terrifying moments in a woman’s life, but taking the diagnosis and turning it into the motor that drives you to conquer your dreams, is nothing but a sign that woman is a total warrior. Atlanta designer, Tracy Nicole Prather is the vivid example of what women are capable of doing and overcoming when faced with a dramatic situation in life. Prather was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years back, and while she had a stable job as…
If you are looking for a home improvement project that will add grace, beauty, and charm to your home, then look no farther than wrought iron gates. Wrought iron gates can be incorporated into many different types of home decor, both inside and outside. Here are some ideas on using wrought iron gates in your next home improvement endeavor. Many homeowners use wrought iron gates as an entrance to their home. These gates can range from massive and imposing to a small, charming garden gate.…
Jackson Coale Gott was born September 10, 1829 in Lake Roland, Baltimore County. He studied carpentry as a child and later studied architecture in the offices of several prominent local architects, while apprenticing with an unnamed carpenter and master builder while studying under private tutors. After his apprenticeship, he worked in the building industry for several years and in 1863, Gott opened his architectural office, according to the Baltimore City Directory. Gott was later elected an…
repeated pattern with no gaps or no overlapping. You can tile floors with them or just make a fun design there are many things you can do with them. They are in bathrooms, kitchens, on quilts, etc. You may have never noticed what they were. In the article (Tessellations) by Dana Mackenzie, it talks about how tessellation are all over the world in many ways. They are used in a lot of different designs. “Tessellations of a plane can be found in the regular patterns of tiles on a bathroom floor,…
from across the hemisphere. The architecture design process beginning in the early 1990s, the National Museum of the American Indian opened dialogues with Native communities and individuals across the Western Hemisphere. These early meetings resulted in the museum's landmark document, The Way of the People (1993), which reached beyond the basic requirements of the building to incorporate Native sensibilities throughout the museum building. The design…
Nasa Crane In this project we had to design a crane that could hold the most batteries. We only had a few materials to create our cranes. The materials were a box, three pencils, string, paper cups, a paperclip, and duct tape. With these materials you had to design a crane that could hold the most batteries without breaking and it had to raise six inches. You first had to define the problem, then you had to establish a design, then you had to build your design. Then after you built it you…
you can put into photographs to catch peoples attentions if you don't know what you're doing. Being able to translate your artistic vision to photographs and what you're capturing. Also, you need interpersonal skills, by having relationships or communication between people. Like knowing stylists, make-up artist, and other professionals. Being a photographer isn't always so easy and steady paste. To the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, supposedly photography jobs were expected to increase by 4%…
of new cell phone handset designs and other product line designs were to hire new designers. In order to make the Samsung’s brand stand out from the rest, the chairman decided to hire “young hip designers” from America to come up with fresh ideas, therefore bringing recognition of the Samsung brand. Samsung designers were sent to different places so they could get inspired, and bring that inspiration to the company’s products designs. Samsung had a different idea for design centers, they would…