Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland.
It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This style in art, architecture and culture became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all around the globe. Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design: Amazon.co.uk: R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann. Maya Lin unveils 'What Is Missing?' While Renzo Piano's admired new California Academy of Sciences building was still on the drawing board, the San Francisco Arts Commission announced a competition for public art to fit within it.
The award went to Maya Lin, a New York artist and architect most famous for her 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The first element of Lin's commission went on view when the academy opened in September 2008. "Where the Land Meets the Sea" is a large metal lattice, suspended over the building's main entrance, that traces the geological contours, above water and below, of the landscape that spans Angel Island and the Golden Gate. Lin has just unveiled the remaining components of her ensemble. She sees it as a resolution of the tension in her career between designing memorials and making non-topical artworks, such as those in her exhibition "Systematic Landscapes," seen at the de Young Museum in fall 2008. "What is Missing?" exhibit by Maya Lin. Www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/students/philosophy/ba_course_materials/ba_greek_phil_the_republic_01.pdf. Psychology Of Color.
Color. Color (American English) or colour (British English; see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, and others.
Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects or materials based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates. Dr Russell Hill Research. Darwin (1876) first noticed that primate males use colouration for attracting females and displaying dominance and subsequent studies have provided support for the significance of red.
The intensity of red colouration in rhesus macaques and mandrills offers cues to male quality and status, but it is in male-male competition that the role of red is most pronounced. In mandrills, male red colouration on rump, face and genitalia depends on their testosterone-levels and male mandrills assess a rival's fighting ability and dominance rank based on their brightness of the rival's red colouration. In essense, the red colouration is a badge of status in primates, and in fact red colouration is associated with dominance and aggression in a wide range of taxa.
In humans, skin redness is not such a pronounced signal, but males tend to be redder than females and facial redness does correlate with testosterone levels and so may indicate high status and thus dominance. Alittlelab.stir.ac.uk/pubs/Waitt_03_macaque_colourprefs_BL.pdf. Color Psychology - The Psychology of Color. Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. - Pablo Picasso Do you feel anxious in a yellow room?
Does the color blue make you feel calm and relaxed? Artists and interior designers have long understood how color can dramatically affect moods, feelings, and emotions. It is a powerful communication tool and can be used to signal action, influence mood, and cause physiological reactions. Certain colors have been associated with increased blood pressure, increased metabolism, and eyestrain. "Given the prevalence of color, one would expect color psychology to be a well-developed area," note researchers Andrew Elliot and Markus Maier. The Eleventh Day: Perec And The Infra Ordinary. The word itself is a modest enough neologism, easily decipherable as the reverse, or the negative, of "extraordinary," but what in effect did Georges Perec mean by l'infra-ordinaire?
In Approches de quoi? (Approaches to What?) , a brief text appropriated as the preface to and declaration of intentions of a posthumous little volume published in 1989 and bearing the lower-case title of, precisely, l'infra-ordinaire, Perec defined his project as an interrogation of the quotidian: How can we speak of these "common things," how, rather, can we stalk them, how can we flush them out, rescue them from the mire in which they remain stuck, how can we give them a meaning, a tongue, so that they are at last able to speak of the way things are, the way we are?
Perhaps we must found our own anthropology, one that will speak of us, that will seek out in ourselves what for so long we have plundered from others. Questioning what so strikes us as going without saying that we have forgotten its origin. LARS KORDETZKY: sequences.