Top-down and bottom-up design

bloomed. Timeless creations appear before my eyes with swing of my finger. I could see things that weren’t logical. Sometimes, there were voices whispering in my ears telling me to wake up during the night. When I was 12, my parents taught me they were called a child’s fantasy. That those dreams will disappear when I grew up. I didn’t believe my parents. At the night before Mother’s Day, I begged my father to bring me to the store to buy some food. I was still a 13-year-old boy trying to…

However, the striking difference about these bannisters are the three stone gray planters that are sitting on top. The three planters have plants that are springing above into the sky horizon, but not above the statue of Venus. In fact, the artistically sculptured plants are geometric in shape and create a line that moves the viewer’s eye straight into the intimate…

this field because he has been painting in Miami since 1989. He is almost 40 years old and he is known as “Trek6”. He called my attention because he has been firmly breathing paint for more than his half life and he knows very well Wynwood from the bottom. He has lived the transformation of this place. He said that before this was a neighborhood with crack dealers “beaten to death” and streets ruined by violent disturbances. In other hand, a new artistic rejuvenation in Wynwood is growing and…

research documents the impact housing policy can have on economic well-being and mobility. They find that the longer a child is in a better location, the larger the impact on his or her economic mobility which they define as how far a person moves up or down the income ladder both in his or her lifetime and in comparison to one’s…

product safety in design practices”. Healthymagination: GE’s Healthymagination aligns one of the company’s core business sectors (GE healthcare) with one of the biggest global societal challenges of both the developed and developing world: “addressing the trade-offs between cost, access…

It has a large clock tower that rises high above the church. The ceiling is gold cuffed, and its covered in gorgeous mosaics. The architectural style of this building is a mix of Medieval, Romanesque, and Baroque type design. The Patriarchal Basilica shows the Churches acceptance as Mary, the mother of God. One night while Pope Liberius was asleep he had a dream of the Virgin Mary. She asked him to build a church in her honor in a place. The next day he awoke and went…

how the predisposition of alcoholism can be passed down from one generation to the next, these authors argue that genetics and temperament have a similar link that explains one’s behavior later in life in terms of becoming male, female, or LGBT (i.e., LGBT-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual) (Smith & Elliott, 2011). For instance, the authors list three types of temperaments related to genetics that include “easy, difficult,” and slow warm ups (Smith & Elliott, 2011, p. 21-22). Baron-Cohen…

to swap two human minds into the other's body. This would make transitioning much easier and eliminate the need for hormone therapy or surgeries intended for this propose, provided one may look quite different from his or her original genetic make up. Up to this point, testing has been done on Rattus norvegicus (lab rats) that, while providing substantial results on the ramifications…

Dickerson use colours from dark, contrasting, natural, primary and muted colour palettes that are appropriate to what they wanted to convey through their artworks. Vibrant, saturated, bold and vivid colours are heavily used in both artworks to break up different elements and to interest and appeal to the observer. The identity of Sydney and Australia has impacted Olsen’s and Dickerson’s perspective of the world around them and their personal visual language and painting…

to have fallen in a dark abyss. The midground shows the interaction of the handsome Oedipus and the beautiful Sphinx staring at one another. The background shows a long path boarded with rocky, brown cliffs as tall as the dark, gloomy skies on the top of the painting. The whole context of the art piece was painted with a conceptual…