Design

At the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver lurks a huge blue bear outside of the building. A local artist named Lawrence Argent created the blue bear out of alloy steel and fiberglass. Argent’s sculpture is titled I See What You Mean also known as The Big Blue Bear. The bear stands 40 feet tall and was installed in 2005. Argent was born in England and went to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Australia to train in sculpturing. Currently, Argent is a professor and Head…

Choices in Design Every parent through their pregnancy wants a healthy baby with ten fingers and ten toes. There may be underlying wants, dad wants the football player and mom wants the ballerina. We live in a society where gender screening is now an option. The definition of a designer baby “is a baby that is the result of genetic screening or genetic modification. Embryos may be screened prior to implantation, or possibly gene therapy techniques could be used to create desired traits in a…

Next, the survey design has to have good wording and formatting, in order for it to be a successful survey. I think considering some of the existing literature would be best in deciphering what the problems with past surveys has been, and how to overcome those problems in this survey design. First, I believe it is important to have questions that are not worded vaguely, or that provide for different emotions to be evoked based on a certain connotation of a word. For instance, Tom Smith (1987)…

A cross-sectional design has the ability to identify how an individual may change. This change is over a shorter period of time and uses different age groups. All individuals who had a status of substance abuse issues, and meet all requirements may take place in this study. In this experiment, there are two different age groups. One age group is teens and the second age group is adults. In this study, both groups will be divided. Teens will be divided from their parents, and examined by their…

designer is huge client base. Having a huge client base in today's society is exceptionally good. Everyone who owns a business, organization, etc. needs a logo or design to represent their business, so graphic designers are needed for these types of jobs. For instance, “If a business is going to do marketing than some one is going to need to design those marketing materials.” (YouTheDesigner, 2009). As long as business keep growing more and more, graphic designers will always be needed. As a…

Powell (Dick and Richard). I found both designers interesting to study, as each design they form are approached to benefit humans in different ways. Such as products which are personal and used daily, others which are designs being upgraded and satisfying human beings needs to this upcoming day; The first designer i will be discussing is; Marc Newson is known for being a talented individual when it comes to the world of design, he was born and raised in the heart of Australia in the year of…

Jan Tschichold is from Leipzig Germany and is a typography and author. Born in 1902, Tschichold trained as a calligrapher and designer at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Production from the ages of 17 and 19 then began freelancing as a lettering artist and designer. He was hired at a printing firm to draw page layouts for the typesetters. While working there, he visited a Bauhaus exhibition that drew him into the new Modernist movement. A couple of years later, Tschichold joined…

much alike to the Ottoman structures. Their creative outlines of windows, doors and tops offer qualities with the Italian building design and their fundamental structures found in mosques were embraced from the populace of Anatolia. The Ottomans gathered diverse thoughts from different nations and made them into one brilliant piece which is the reason building design was a noteworthy part of Ottoman society. An alternate principle progression in the Ottoman Empire was in innovation. Science…

of graphic design. Public signs, utility signs, and road signs are examples of how a design communicate the information with the use of graphical elemtns. As up in coming graphic designers, it is important for us to understand how we should approach informative design; creating something that is just aesthetically pleasing won’t be an effective tool for the public to utilize in everyday life. A perfect example of how communication was integrated in design is Massimo Vignelli’s design of New York…

died 1990 and was a student of Bauhaus. He believed that his designs should be “affordable for the everyday worker but good enough for the wealthy (Galloway 1998).” Carl Jacob Jucker was a Swiss Silversmith and industrial designer who was born in Zurich in 1902 and died in 1997 and like Wagenfeld was also a student at Bauhaus and studied alongside Wagenfeld both of whom studied under the direction of László Moholy-Nagy (Museum of Design Zurich 2016). The Bauhaus was an arts school that was based…