Posts in the category design

three things are needed for beauty . . .

aquinas says:
ad pulcritudinem tria requiruntur integritas, consonantia, claritas. i translate it so: three things are needed for beauty, wholeness, harmony and radiance. do these correspond to the phases of apprehension? are you following? . . .
the first phase of apprehension is a bounding line drawn about the object to be apprehended. an esthetic image is […]

posted 24 July 2021

categories design, photos

form sculpting with clay in plzeň . . .

clay workshop in plzeň | july 13th through july 15th
organizational coördination:
jindřich jindřich,
eu-project coördinator plzeň 2015 . . .
barbara reitz,
eu-project coördinator, cultural & creative industries, municipality of regensburg . . .
instructors from studio sutnarka:
jan korabečný,
ladislav sutnar, faculty of design & art, university of west bohemia, plzeň . . .
lukas melichar,
ladislav sutnar, faculty of design & […]

posted 16 July 2021

categories design, education

everyday hero: embracing aspects of homo ludens . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 05 •
everyday design hero:
embracing aspects
of homo ludens . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & […]

posted 13 July 2021

categories design, education

everyday hero: robust, resilient & repairable . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 04 •
everyday design hero:
robust, resilient
& repairable . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & repairable . . […]

posted 13 June 2021

categories design, education

everyday hero: beautility . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 03 •
everyday design hero:
beautility . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & […]

posted 13 May 2021

categories design, education

women in design & abstraction . . .

rowena reed kostellow (* july 6, 1900 † september 17, 1988) was an american industrial designer and professor of design. in cooperation with her husband, alexander jusserand kostellow, fidsa (* 1897 † 1954), and alongside other designers &/or artists, she co-founded one of the first industrial design educational courses in the united states, at pratt […]

posted 1 May 2021

categories design, education

necessity is the mother of invention . . .

iD2 crew: elements of design 2 | mother earth day poster designs for april 22, 2021
iD: elements of design two, earth day poster designs . . .
full scale dimensions: 594 mm × 841 mm
participants: elements of design two, the university of applied sciences regensburg, the department of architecture, the iD program: […]

posted 27 April 2021

categories design, education, photos

everyday hero: enhancing civility . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 02 •
everyday design hero:
enhancing civility . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein
01) lightness . . .
02) enhancing civility . . .
03) beautility . . .
04) robust, resilient & […]

posted 13 April 2021

categories design, education

everyday hero: lightness . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 01 •everyday design hero:lightness . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”

philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

01) lightness . . .

02) enhancing civility . . .

03) beautility . . .

04) robust, resilient & repairable . […]

posted 13 March 2021

categories design, education

viaduc de grandfey & maillart extended . . .

the grandfey viaduct is on the swiss federal railways (sbb cff ffs) line from fribourg to bern, switzerland. grandfey is one of the largest bridges in switzerland. in 1856, the then lausanne fribourg bern railway company commissioned engineer leopold blotnitzki to carry out studies for this most complex construction project in its network. built from […]

posted 16 February 2021

categories design, photos