Showing posts with label industrial design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial design. Show all posts
Thursday, October 21, 2021

DIY: Homebuilt Substitute for Vixen Mount

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The Vixen Company, Ltd., of Saitama, Japan, (founded 1949) got the brilliant idea to make all of their telescopes compatible with all of the...
Monday, August 31, 2020

The Fountainhead: an exploded view of one scene

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We lose the past too easily. Ayn Rand was born in 1905. In The Fountainhead , anyone of mature professional status 1922-1942 would have been...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Creature Comforts Show No End to History

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It is a wonderful time to be alive.  We have become so used to material abundance that we have lost all perspective on where we are in the d...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Perfect Machine

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“Putting the observer inside the telescope had obvious advantages.”   The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope  by Ronald Floren...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Raymond Loewy

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Today's Google Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design.   Raymond Loewy is called “t...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Industrial Medals a Currency of Fame

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Most people call it “coin collecting” but numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money. That includes money-...
Monday, April 22, 2013

OBJECTIFIED

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Objectified is a film by Gary Hustwit about design, designers, and the objects that they create.  Dieter Rams of Braun and Apple’s Jonathan...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Genius of Design

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“For industrial designers, the world is never enough. They give shape and texture to the world to make it livable—indeed, beautiful—for the ...