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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"design history"”.
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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History
<p>Feminist Design History is a field abundantly sown, with lots of room for growth. This essay digs through seminal and contemporary works of feminist design history to learn how to contribute to the field most thoughtfully. I find that future scholarship must meet four criteria in order to …
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A cross-cultural design pattern: Chinese modern design
Chinese graphic designers are gaining more visibility and earn awards in various international poster competitions, shaping a new visual frontier in Chinese graphic design. These successes are based on their special cross-cultural design principle, which combines Chinese traditional culture with …
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Design: the quintessential business transaction
… concepts are exposed: product model data and the design history record. Product model data are the values of instances of product model entities and relations, created to represent a particular design, artefact or object. The design history record captures the data and functions used in a …
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Pedagogies of ‘Good Design’ and Handling in Relation to the I.L.E.A./Camberwell Collection
… as a case study for the teaching of ‘good design’ in post-war Britain from 1951 to 1977. The methodological approaches used are drawn from the disciplines of design history, material culture studies, educational theory,museology and sociology. The main objectives of the thesis aim to …
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Architectural Lettering, Visual Identity and Early Branding in Commercial Buildings in London (1870s-1939): The Truman's Case
This thesis is focused on design practice and uses a practice-informed approach to examine the use of architectural lettering on commercial buildings during the last years of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century (1870s–1939). This research argues that, despite the lack of a …
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Compasso d'Oro and Changes in the Italian Domestic Landscape
… prize has been awarded to outstanding industrial design products in Italy since 1954. Products range from common household tools to mass means of transportation. They represent a social, technological, and design history covering nearly five decades. This study explores the relationship between …
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The Walls of Dongshuiguan Island
Walls are important elements in architecture design history. Walls have been used as barriers and as structural elements as well. The biggest scale of a wall is a city wall which can protect the whole city area as a fortification--boundary. Another scale is the wall around buildings, which can …
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Concurrent engineering in the context of the composite leisure boatbuilding industry
… share. Concurrent engineering is a method of design that has given large benefits to a multitude of industries but is ill-defined within leisure boatbuilding.<br/><br/>This thesis investigates the nature of British boatbuilding and develops concurrent engineering within this context. To …
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Consumption of furniture and furnishings for the home in the West Midlands using local suppliers 1760-1860
Using a framework of design history and theories of consumption, the production, ownership and use of furniture and furnishings is examined, to obtain an understanding of the material culture of the home, its physical reality and cultural meaning. Homes during the period 1760-1860 are the focus for …
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Attribution Standardization for Integrated Concurrent Engineering
Product design is a creative process, often subject to rapid and numerous design change requirements. To facilitate geometric redesign iterations, Parametric Computer-Aided Design CAD) systems were introduced. To manage the numerous product design iterations produced by parametric CAD systems, …
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Washington D.C. | Olympic Metamorphosis
… a city of international prominence with a rich design history but a city that hasn't had a large scale urban redevelopment plan in over a century. I focused on the city east of the Capitol as I wanted to extend the monumental core created in the McMillan plan. I researched baroque design, …
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A model and decision support mechanism for software requirements engineering
… is performed through a set of analysis and design activities controlled by the manager and aided by the decision support mechanism based on the formal model. This approach also provides support for maintaining design history and its rationale that can be used for implementing new needs or …
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Geometric feature extraction in support of the single digital thread approach to detailed design
Aircraft design is a multi-disciplinary and complicated process that takes a long time and requires a large number of trade-offs between customer requirements, various types of constraints and market competition. Particularly detailed design is the phase that takes most of the time due to the high …
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Growth and expansion in post-war urban design strategies: C. A. Doxiadis and the first strategic plan for Riyadh Saudi Arabia (1968-1972)
… resituates C. A. Doxiadis in Post-War urban design history with a detailed examination of how urban growth and change was addressed by urban design strategies as applied in the master plan for Riyadh Saudi Arabia, undertaken between 1968 and 1972. The Riyadh master plan commission is …
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The appropriation and mastery of cultural tools in computer supported collaborative literacy practices
… for constructing collaboratively WebPages in History. <br></br><br></br>In the first part of the thesis the two themes are critically explored through a literature review of sociocultural theory, literacy, and lCT, and through two pilot studies. In the first study, I investigate how language …
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An investigation into the cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery (London 1980-2008)
… using methods from material culture studies, design history and sociology. Together, the breadth of sources and interdisciplinary approach demonstrate that jewellery worn to signify death, memory and mourning is part of a continuum of the wider symbolic and sentimental value of jewellery. The …
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Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States 1930-1965
… other periods and places, arts, architecture and design played a significant role in expressing and exploring the issues and concerns of the day. In the period 1930 to 1965, and emerging practice called "interior design," in particular, became a potent medium for this purpose.Like modern art and …
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New Modes of Production and Australian Graphic Design Culture
… Thirty-five years later this relationship of designer, photographer, printer and product remains unexamined. Moreover, of considerable neglect, is the graphic designer’s role in transforming an inveterate Australian newspaper trade into a mass communication industry. This research is a …
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