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Harry Beck was the designer that created the London Underground Tube map in 1931. This is one of the most Iconic designs/ maps in...

Tiffany Style Lamps are some of the most elegant and well-known designs to have been produced by Louis Comfort Tiffany. As an artist by...

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 - 1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He was the head of the Efficiency Movement and most...

‘HAVE NOTHING IN YOUR HOUSES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW TO BE USEFUL OR BELIEVE TO BE BEAUTIFUL.’ William Morris (1834-1896) is considered the...

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A visual preference to design from 1850 to the present day by Penny Sparke, Felice Hodges, Anne Stone and Emma Dent Coad. I would...

a + b is to a as a is to b a/b = (a + b)/a = 1.618033987498948420… Phi = 1.618 Golden Ratio is the cross between the Golden Rectangle and...

Design History. How would you learn about deign history? Books? Well even in books, there are many different ways in which they are...

Ways of Seeing is a book based on the BBC television series directed by Micheal Dibb. Here John Berger talks about the different ways art...

The word Design is defined as: However my own personal definition of design would be: 1. verb. Creating a product which is unique to...