Essays on Design Page 9

Speed: Compared to other prototype methods, the time spent using rapid prototyping techniques has decreased by as much as 90%. While creating tooling for injection molding and other conventional prototyping processes can take days, rapid prototyping enables the production of the same model parts within hours. Time to Market The faster a prototype is created,…

1. Where does the name ‘QWERTY’ Keyboard come from? It comes from the top six keys on the keyboard, starting with leftmost in the keyboard which read they read exactly ‘q’, ‘w’, ‘e’, ‘r’, ‘t’, ‘y’. The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Sholes who was issued a patent for a typewriter on July 14,…

The text suggests that mankind should evaluate how they treat both their own species and the environment. This evaluation may uncover unsettling realities that could motivate individuals to alter their actions. The poem is narrated by an unidentified speaker, whose gender remains unknown, as they describe a brief encounter with a famished spider. In the…

Thomas Herzog was born in Munich , Germany in 1941. He attended Grammar school in the same place. In 1965, he got his Diploma in Architecture  . He grew up in a family of medical doctors, and with a physicist father .After finishing the course in Architecture, , he worked as assistant in the Office…

The Purkersdorf Sanatorium and the Fusion of Function and Design Stark white and machine-like from a distance, the Purkersdorf Sanatorium designed by Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann emanates a feeling of sterility. However, the building also exhibits a hint of luxurious charm upon closer observation. As the first major commission for the Wiener Werkstatte company, Josef…

r-analogyHumes counter-analogy does not succeed in undermining Paleys argument from design. Paley clearly explains to his reader that humans are so complicated that we must have been made by a designer. Hume argues that since the universe is not a human art, and is more like an animal, it does not need a designer. Paley…

Green Roofs Nastaran Razavi The first article “Grass roots green roof”? explains how a nature lover and her volunteer community install and maintain a low-cost green roof system on the roof of a 36-year-old residential building to implement storm water management. In the beginning, community disagreements, safety concerns, and structural issues prevent the progress of…

The Bauhaus, a German design school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, sought to unite individuals working in architecture, modern technology, and the decorative arts to foster mutual learning. Recognizing the importance of mass production in the era of machinery, the members of the Bauhaus rejected the principles of the Arts and Crafts…

Guide-path design is the first important issue needs to be considered for AGV design and control. The main purpose is to determine and include the connections or guide-path segments in the solution. The number of parallel lanes of a connection also needs to be decided for some specific cases. It is necessary to know the…

Over time, new innovations and discoveries have taken place in bringing advancement to technology. So, society, people, and their expectations have adapted to technological advancements. The things they use have been modified, and so have their tastes. Similarly, there has been a huge change in the environment, architecture, the spaces they use, the type of…