4th
November
2003
Design Observer
“Writings about design and culture” by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Rick Poynor.
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“Writings about design and culture” by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Rick Poynor.
“Droplets: Two or more droplets caught in the act of merging, usually symbolic of convergence or union: The Cingular logo is a wonderful example. The effect can also be used to express a technical or scientific association. Sometimes these shapes are flat, but other designs have highlights or shadows that give the impression of dimension.”
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“Writings about design and culture” by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Rick Poynor.
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“For a hot new thing, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) sure is slow off the blocks. First proposed in 1994, first implemented in browsers in 1996, CSS is perennially touted as the successor to conventional HTML-based Web coding. Its ability to use style sheets to control typography and layout throughout a Web site always seemed to make CSS the most efficient, designer-friendly, forward-looking option. And yet myths persist about CSS — myths that discourage Web designers from getting to grips with the language. So what’s all the fuss about?”
“Although the eyes are a key feature of facial portraits, compositional rules for the placement of the eyes relative to the frame seem to be lacking. Two hypotheses were evaluated for a relation between eye position and the portrait frame. One was that the pair of eyes might be placed symmetrically in portraits where both eyes are visible. This center of facial symmetry is often discussed in art analysis and should be an explicit primitive in portrait composition. The alternative hypothesis of a consistent positioning of one eye relative to the center of the portrait is not mentioned in art texts.”
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