scholarly journals Letter Graphics in the Facade of a Building – Composition and Message

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022017
Author(s):  
Alina Lipowicz-Budzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Screen Printing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Preliminary Research

Abstract The paper discusses art and communication in architecture. Façade graphics, alongside their compositional and aesthetical qualities, may also contain visual elements that are part of a message. One of the ways of sending such a message is by incorporation of letters. The article looks at preliminary research on the form and content of messages contained within façade graphics. The author analyses the objective of placing letter graphics on a façade, and how they relate to the information and message that are given. An important part of the analysis is the examination of the applied artistic means tied to the meaning, and how they relate to the building’s structure. This phenomenon was examined based on eight buildings constructed over the past two decades. In each of them, graphical techniques of digital and screen printing were used. The majority of them are located in Europe, and due to the global nature of artistic phenomena, there is no limited smaller area of research.

First Report of the Welding Research Committee. A Preliminary Research into the Effect of Heat Treatment of Welds

1933 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 569-599
Author(s):  
L. W. Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Considerable Variability ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
High Class ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cutting Out ◽  
Preliminary Research

With such considerations as the releasing of internal stress, the effect on corrodibility, and the practicability of carrying out high-temperature treatments, the present research does not deal. The experiments concern solely the changes in toughness brought about by heat treatment, and they represent a trial set of tests in which a particular high-class electrode was used, the results being intended as a guide for future research. In the past there has been considerable variability in the results obtained from a normalizing treatment by different experimenters, and as this was considered to be partly due to a difference in manner of cutting out the samples and a difference in the method of carrying out the treatment, the present treatments were all kept under careful control. The upper and lower “runs” were tested separately so that the effect of heat treatment on the coarse metal of the upper run and the fine metal of the lower runs might be subdivided. Throughout, microscopic examinations were made so that the change in structure might be correlated as far as possible with the change in the shock value. The particular weld metal tested gave very consistent results and the change in Izod value was found largely to follow the change in grain size.

scholarly journals Construction and Application of the Design Method of Cultural Products Based on the Meme of Liao dynasty ceramics

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Yue Zhu ◽  
Cheng-lein TENG
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Related Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Liao Dynasty ◽  
Physical Representation

A design method of one cultural product based on the meme of artifacts was constructed and applied to the development and design of cultural products. Firstly, the paper puts forward that the outer “tangible” level of the “spatial perspective” of culture corresponds to the dominant meme, as well as the mid “behavioral” level and Inner “intangible” level correspond to the hidden meme according to the theories of meme and the “spatial perspective” of culture. What’s more, the meme was extracted according to the appearance of Liao dynasty ceramics and related research literature. Secondly, based on the extracted meme of Liao dynasty ceramics, the design method of cultural products was constructed by applying the theoretical framework two orders of the signification of Roland Barthes Semiotics to explore the extended cultural meaning of meme and apply its translation to the design of cultural products. The design method of cultural products constructed by this Institute is more inclusive of the intrinsic level of artifacts than that in the past, which only created cultural products that focus on the physical representation of the visual elements. It is an attempt to provide designers of cultural products and students with design background with a design method of cultural products for reference.

Jaziret Fadel

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-126
Author(s):  
Amal Adel Abdrabo
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mutual Interaction ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
The Village ◽  
Key Questions

The plight of refugees fleeing from Palestine in 1948 raises several key questions regarding their historical fragmentation as a nation and their future. From a social anthropological point of view, the existing literature seems to tackle the Palestinian case from different perspectives influenced by the mass exodus of Palestinians from their homeland. Such perceptions took for granted the recognition of the state of “refugeeness” of the exiled Palestinians around the globe, while, in reality, it is a mutual interaction between people, place, and time. In the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War at the beginning of the year 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians fled their homes in Palestine to the nearby Arab countries, among them was Egypt. Some thousands settled in different areas all over Egypt. Based on a preliminary research on the literature, the author can argue that this is the first ethnographic study of the social life of the village of Jaziret Fadel and its Palestinian inhabitants in Egypt. The chapter is about tackling the historical trajectories, genealogies, memories, and present of the inhabitants of this village who seemed to be torn between two nostalgic pasts. The author's emphasis within this chapter is about how the narratives of the past memories could reveal a lot about the present time of the human societies and their future.

Cultural Identity and Passport Designs

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Cumhur Coskun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The Times

A passport is an identity given to an individual by his country, to travel to other countries. With globalisation, ‘passports’ that were papers stamped at the entrance and exit by customs during the past centuries have increasingly become critical documents. It is not only a personal document, but it also represents the country to which it belongs. The designs should reflect the cultural identity of a nation, in the form of visual elements, illustrations and photographs. Countries that are aware that their passports reflect their cultural values are able to combine their passport designs with the modern design concept of the times creatively and stylishly, as an artistic work. This qualitative study is aimed at evaluating passport designs in terms of being a representative of a cultural identity and examining passport designs that are re-examined with innovative and modern understanding cultural identity. Keywords: Passport design, cultural identity, graphic design.

scholarly journals Avatars and Security Clearances: How can we reconcile the two?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intelligence Collection ◽  
Global Nature

Government and military personnel in positions of trust are required to obtain and retain security clearances as part of conducting their duties within those positions. Part of obtaining a clearance requires personnel to report on any foreign contacts or business interests they may have. During the time that they hold such a position, personnel must report any significant contact with citizens of various countries to ensure they have not been targeted as part of a foreign intelligence collection effort. As more cleared personnel begin actively participating in virtual worlds, and as more personnel already active in virtual worlds begin applying for positions of trust, how will vetting agencies reconcile the borderless nature of virtual worlds with the requirements set forth for establishing and maintaining security clearances?Legislation has historically not kept pace with rapidly developing community technologies, and bureaucracies may make a choice between taking online relationships too seriously, and not taking them seriously enough. In the past, foreign relationships were easily defined, with physical travel, face-to-face contact, phone, and postal connections being the norm. Today, the global nature of online gaming and virtual environments make these definitions less clear. In order to ensure personnel continue to be effectively screened, virtual worlds and relationships, however benign, may need to be taken into account as part of the vetting process. If so, they will need to be properly understood by the investigating agencies. This paper proposes to outline some of the relevant issues involved in a rapidly evolving online community. 

scholarly journals Articulation of Facade Graphics and Techniques of its Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022016
Author(s):  
Alina Lipowicz-Budzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Screen Printing ◽  
Digital Printing ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Implementation Techniques ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Visual Range

Abstract The article deals with issues at the boundary of architecture and technology, related to visual articulation. The facade graphics is a relatively new phenomenon that has arisen over the last two decades. Some of the image implementation techniques it uses have been known for a long time. Some of them are derived from stained glass (e.g. the technique of manual enamel application), some are related to the already known techniques of workshop graphics (screen printing). One of the latest technological achievements is the development of digital printing technology. Each of the aforementioned techniques has specific artistic possibilities and means of expression, which influences the articulation of the image in the external partition and has a significant impact on a number of compositional aspects. The image placed in the façade supports the building's form, underlining its shape, emphasizing important places in the building. The work examines the relationship between the applied techniques of implementation and the properties of the image on glass. An important part is to determine to what extent the construction of the image and the applied plastic measures affect the visual range of the glass partition and the functional properties. Particularly interesting projects are those made with several techniques, and those in which a new technique was discovered, which is later copied in other projects. The research can make a strong case for using artistic glass in the facade of a building and provide guidance for designers and investors. The publication will present examples of implementations placed in the facade of the building. The phenomenon will be investigated on the basis of buildings constructed over the last two decades. Due to the global nature of plastic phenomena, there is no limited research territory.

scholarly journals Contemporary illustration methods and new application areas on illustrations: Interaction induced animated illustrations

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Banu Bulduk
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Design Element ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Application Techniques ◽  
Media Environments

Illustration can be defined as a sub-discipline of graphic design enabling the realization of visual communication which mediates to the description of ideas and thoughts in a formal way. From the past to the present, illustrations find various areas of usage as visual elements in communication environment and it can be used as a design element for many graphic products ranging from product designs to children’s books. Over time, stylistic differences in illustration languages have also turned into structural differences in design and production process and concepts such as interaction, user control and animation have developed an alternative language to the traditional illustration techniques. Contemporary form-languages of these illustrations are examined in the scope of this study. Formal analysis of illustrated graphic products and their delivery to new media environments are considered in this process. Animated illustrations and three dimensional design, among those application techniques, are at the active position to intensify the perception of viewers/readers via illustration. In this study, method included the usage, design and application processes of animated illustration applications, also current and proposed examples and alternative languages’ search of illustrations are discussed.    Keywords: illustration, contemporary illustration, animated illustration, three dimensional art design, interaction design.  

scholarly journals DECADENCE-LITERATURE: THE IMAGERY SPECIFICITY

2017 ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
B. E. Nosenok
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
General Phenomenon ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Life Path

This article is devoted to the imagery problem of the decadence-literature (as a general phenomenon that periodically repeats itself) and of the literature of the decadency (as an oeuvre of crisis developments in art of the late 19th and early 20th century). The decadence-literatureis a manifestation of the irreducibility. It is proposed to analyze the imagery based on the context of the modernist interpretation of the image / icon. Before the image was considered together with its mimetic foundation – as an imitation of the external world. But here the image is freed from its mimetism, and it turns into a kind of "immediate ontology" (it is the Gaston Bachelard’s term). The classical structure of the image (plot, storyline, composition) ceases to play a leading role, and gives way to a writing. The decadence-literature image lets visual elements into literature. Therefore,there is a displacement from the ontology of the image to the image as an ontology in the research of imagery. It is also important to use the methodology proposed by Georges Didi-Huberman and Paul Virilio: the combination of the hermeneutic approach in the philosophy of image with elements of psychoanalysis, and the method of dromology, which is the connection of special aspects of the physics, mathematics and philosophy. The methodology of the School of Sociology of Imagination is also appropriate. The image of the decadence-literature is marked by symbolism, imaginism (it isalso known the same direction in literature – with the same name). There is also the "genres-werewolves" when a work is called, for example, poetry in prose. A personality of the writer-author plays a great role here: the decadence-literature is saturated with a psychology and a biography that is turned insideout. It is the expression of the world of unforgiven, restless personalities, which is explained by the principle of creation from an absence, emptiness, depressive and melancholic states (nostalgia, fatigue, sweet melancholy). It's interesting that decadent moods contribute to creation here. Distinctive features of the authors of decadence-literature: soreness, tenderness, hypersensitivity, a difficult life path and an unstable world. The imagery that is generated by creativity of these individuals is marked by a special attitude to time and space, it is also directed to the past in an attempt to find a lost paradise - that existed before the crash.

scholarly journals Reactions of Rp-Resistant, Processing Sweet Corn Hybrids to Populations of Puccinia sorghi Virulent on Corn with the Rp1-D Gene

HortScience ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerald K. Pataky ◽  
Mirian Gonzalez ◽  
James L. Brewbaker ◽  
Frederik J. Kloppers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Zea Mays ◽  
Sweet Corn ◽  
Corn Hybrids ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Puccinia Sorghi ◽  
The Past ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Moderately Resistant

Resistance to Puccinia sorghi Schwein. based on the Rp1-D gene has been used successfully in North America for the past 15 years to control common rust on sweet corn (Zea mays L.). The objective of this preliminary research was to examine rust reactions of Rp-hybrids grown for processing in the midwestern United States against biotypes of P. sorghi virulent against Rp1-D. In Sept. 1999, isolates of P. sorghi virulent on corn with the Rp1-D gene were collected throughout the midwestern United States. Rust reactions of 41 Rp-resistant, processing sweet corn hybrids and nine non-Rp hybrids were evaluated during the 1999-2000 season in Argentina, Hawaii, Mexico, and South Africa, where populations of P. sorghi are virulent against Rp1-D. Sporulating uredinia were observed on all hybrids in all locations. Although rust reactions varied among locations, mean standardized scores of nine non-Rp hybrids that were included in the trial as controls ranked nearly the same as in previous trials. Thirteen hybrids with standardized scores above 0.25 were more susceptible than the hybrid with the lowest mean rust rating, `Green Giant Code 27'. Thirty-two hybrids were intermediate in reaction to P. sorghi virulent against Rp1-D. Reactions were moderately resistant for nine hybrids with mean standardized scores below -0.50, including two moderately resistant, non-Rp hybrids (`GG Code 27' and `GG Code 6') that were included as controls. Additional trials are necessary to confirm reactions of these hybrids. If the Rp-hybrids that were moderately susceptible or susceptible in this trial are infected by P. sorghi virulent against Rp1-D, secondary inoculum will be abundant and infection will be severe if the weather is wet.

Macroprudential Policy - An Organizing Framework

Policy Papers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Macroprudential Policy ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Prudential Regulation ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regulation And Supervision ◽  
Global Nature

Macroprudential policy is a complement to microprudential policy and it interacts with other types of public policy that have an impact on systemic financial stability. Indeed, prudential regulation, as carried out in the past, also had some macroprudential aspects, and the recent crisis has reinforced this focus; hence, a clear separation between “micro” and “macro” prudential, if useful conceptually, is difficult to delineate in practice. Moreover, no matter how different policy mandates are structured, financial stability tends to be a common responsibility, reflecting the far reaching consequences of financial crises. This calls for coordination across policies, to ensure that systemic risk is comprehensively addressed. Equally important, macroprudential policy is no substitute for sound policies more broadly, including, in particular, strong prudential regulation and supervision, and sound macroeconomic policies. Operational independence in other policy areas, including monetary and microprudential policy, should not be undermined in the name of macroprudential policy. Finally, given the global nature of the financial system, the multilateral aspects of macroprudential policy will need to be fully considered—an important aspect that is only touched upon in this paper.

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