This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements - Introduction for more information. Post Modernism "Obsessed with style for its own sake" Began in 1970s but reached a peak around1980 to the early 1990s Often questionable definitions and standards … Continue reading A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Post Modernism
A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Streamline
This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements - Introduction for more information. Streamline 'Moderne' Can be seen as a branch of the Art Deco movement 1930s Designs used aerodynamic principles with Art Deco geometric shapes Practical and simple enough … Continue reading A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Streamline
A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Bauhaus
This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements - Introduction for more information. Bauhaus School of art and architecture in Germany [Weimar(1919-1925), Dessau(1925-1932), Berlin(1932-1933)] 1919-1933 Pioneer of combining studies of pure arts with pure crafts Aimed to unite art and … Continue reading A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Bauhaus
A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Art Deco
This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements - Introduction for more information. Art Deco Included Raymond Templier, Eileen Gray, Clarice Cliff Often used stylised images of cruise liners, aeroplanes, cars, skyscrapers etc Influenced by Cubism, Italian Futurism, archaeological findings … Continue reading A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Art Deco
A Stationery Tower.
Introducing…. The Pen Lid Range
Back not that long ago I uploaded a couple of lame posts about my initial ideas for a product with built-in pen lids for all those pens that people accumulate with missing lids that dry out quicker or cause ink stains. I originally planned to push the ideas on Quirky or something similar but have … Continue reading Introducing…. The Pen Lid Range
Athena’s Mechanical Owl
As a child I absolutely loved Clash of the Titans (the original 1981 film, not the awful recent remake obviously) and more than anything I wanted to ride the wild Pegasus and look after the goddess Athena's mechanical owl Bubo that she sends to Perseus to help him on his quest. Unfortunately as I got … Continue reading Athena’s Mechanical Owl
Iconic Engineering Images
Following on from fictional engineers I couldn't help wondering whether the iconic 'things' of a subject have any influence on the stereotypes? You see, when people say biology then the iconic DNA double helix appears in my head and similarly the LHC or space for physics. Yet for some reason we are not really as … Continue reading Iconic Engineering Images
An Interview with a Juggling Mathematician
A summer placement student at work was juggling in the office today and I remembered that back when I was a member of the University of Liverpool's Junior Maths Society, I interviewed the brilliant mathematician and juggler Colin Wright with my friend Caroline. We recorded it and wrote the transcript up for the school STEM … Continue reading An Interview with a Juggling Mathematician
Space is big. Really big.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams One of the things that has long … Continue reading Space is big. Really big.
Blue Pigeons 