KARIM RASHID

- 300 designs

- 300 awards

- 35 country's

born : september 16, 1960

- industrial designer

- born in Cairo , Egypt

- Egyptian and English

- raised in Canada

3000 designs ranging from interiors, fashion, furniture, lighting, art and music.

Rashids award winning designs include democratic objects such as Garbo waste cans.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

NOTES

• A Scottish architect, designer and a watercolorist

•A designer in the Arts and Crafts movement

•He was the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.

HIS STYLE

•Mixed elements of Scottish vernacular and the English Arts and Crafts tradition with the organic forms of Art Nouveau

• a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves

•Drive to be modern

•As his work matured, he employed bolder geometric forms in place of organic-inspired symbolic decoration

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH WORK CAN BE DIVIDED INTO 3 MAIN AREAS:

vpublic buildings

vprivate homes

vtea rooms

THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ARTS

•1884 - he began a five-year pupilage with the Glasgow architects John Hutchins.

•1889 - he joined the more eminent firm of Honeyman & Keppie.

•1890s - was a decade of learning and development.

•1894 - Develops designs with MacNair and The Macdonald Sisters. Together they are known as “The Four”

•1900 - Miss Cranston commissions him to design the interior and furniture for The Ladies’ Luncheon Room, Ingram Street tearooms

•1903 - Miss Cranston commissions Mackintosh to design the exterior and interiors of The Willow tea rooms, Glasgow.

•1909 - Designs the Card Room for Hous’hill as well as the Oval Room and ladies’ rest room at the Ingram Street tea rooms. Opening of the west wing of Glasgow School of Art

•1911 - Creates the interiors of The Cloister Room and Chinese Room for the Ingram Street tea rooms, Glasgow

•1928 - Dies in London of cancer of the tongue

THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT

•Is a British and American aesthetic movement that aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople.

•It was a reaction against the industrialized society that had boomed in Britain in the Victorian period, and aimed for social as well as artistic reform.

•Its example was followed in other countries, particularly the U.S.A. After the 1914-18 war, other artistic trends overtook the ACM, and it declined.

2nd part, philippe starck (tonton)

more photos from tonton's report....

Philippe Starck

Some websites to read further on Philippe Starck

http://www.starck.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Starck

http://www.ted.com/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_deep_on_design.html

PART 2, LINES

LINES IN SPACE

Lines have many uses in design. They can be used as the axes of solid forms. To describe planes or volumes and to delineate.

There are 3 main tyes of lines directional curves, slow curves and fast curves. Pls. see images below to see the different categories and types of lines.

cebu hardware

Contact details of Cebu hardware. I cant find a map but hope this would help.

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Cebu, Region 7

t: (63-32) 253-3548
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