Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Electric Guitar Design

Electric Guitar Design is a type of industrial design where the looks and efficiency of the shape as well as the acoustical aspects of the guitar are important factors. In the past many guitars have been designed with all kinds of odd shapes as well as very practical and convenient solutions to improve the usability of the object.

Electric guitars were originally designed by an assortment of lather, electronics enthusiasts, and instrument manufacturers, in varying combination. Some of the earliest electric guitars, then essentially adapted hollow bodied acoustic instruments, used tungsten pickups and were manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. In 1935, a Soviet scientist working separately from his western colleagues was known to have produced an electric Russian guitar called the "Kuznetsov electromagnetic guitar". It was exhibited at a technology expo in Moscow, but its development was halted since the Stalin regime was hostile to guitar music.

The version of the instrument that is best known today is the solid body electric guitar, a guitar made of solid wood, without resonating airspace within it.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Process of design

Although the process of design may be considered 'creative', many analytical processes also take place. In fact, many industrial designers often use various design methodologies in their creative process. Some of the processes that are commonly used are user research, sketching, comparative product research, model making, prototyping and testing. These processes can be chronological, or as best defined by the designers and/or other team members.

Industrial Designers often utilize 3D software, Computer-aided industrial design and CAD programs to move from concept to production. Product characteristics specified by the industrial designer may include the overall form of the object, the location of details with respect to one another, colors, texture, sounds, and aspects concerning the use of the product ergonomics. Additionally the industrial designer may specify aspects concerning the production process, choice of materials and the way the product is presented to the consumer at the point of sale. The use of industrial designers in a product development process may lead to added values by improved usability, lowered production costs and more appealing products. However, some classic industrial designs are considered as much works of art as works of engineering:

Industrial design has no focus on technical concepts, products and processes. In addition to considering aesthetics, usability, and ergonomics, it can also encompass the engineering of objects, usefulness as well as usability, market placement, and other concerns such as seduction, psychology, desire, and the sexual or affectionate attachment of the user to the object. These values and accompanying aspects on which industrial design is based can vary, both between different schools of thought and among practicing designers.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Industrial Design

Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced products may be improved for marketability and production. The role of an Industrial Designer is to create and execute design solutions towards problems of form, usability, user ergonomics, engineering, marketing, brand development and sales.

The term "industrial design" is often attributed to the designer Joseph Claude Sinel in 1919 (although he himself denied it in later interviews) but the discipline predates that by at least a decade. Its origins lay in the industrialization of consumer products. For instance the Deutscher Werkbund, founded in 1907 and a precursor to the Bauhaus, was a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques, to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States.

General Industrial Designers are a cross between an engineer and an artist. They study both function and form, and the connection between product and the user. They do not design the gears or motors that make machines move, or the circuits that control the movement, but they can affect technical aspects through usability design and form relationships. And usually, they partner with engineers and marketers, to identify and fulfill needs, wants and expectations.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Dynamic Diagrams

Dynamic Diagrams is an information design consultancy based in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Its services include information architecture and design for web sites and applications, as well as diagramming complex processes, systems, and data to help clients explain and sell their ideas. The company provides visual design capabilities supported by research and analysis to understand user and business needs.

Dynamic Diagrams was founded in 1990 by Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk, who first worked together to design the hypertext system Intermedia (hypertext) at Brown University’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS). The company retains strong ties to Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where Krzysztof Lenk is a member of the graphic design faculty. Dynamic Diagrams has been affiliated with Cadmus Communications Corporation, Inc. and Ingenta, but has operated as an independent studio under the leadership of Tim Roy since 2002.

Dynamic Diagrams is known for using isometric projections or Z-diagrams to map web sites (Dodge, 1999; Kahn & Lenk, 2001; Kahn, Lenk, & Kaczmarek, 2001), for developing the software program MAPA (Durand & Kahn, 1998), and for publishing the Information Design Watch blog. The company's work appears in several books on information architecture and information design (see Further Reading).

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Thalamus

Lesions or stimulation of the medial, dorsal, and anterior nuclei of the thalamus are associated with changes in emotional reactivity. However, the importance of these nuclei on the regulation of emotional behavior is not due to the thalamus itself, but to the connections of these nuclei with other limbic system structures.

The medial dorsal nucleus makes connections with cortical zones of the prefrontal area and with the hypothalamus. The anterior nuclei connect with the mamillary bodies and through them, via fornix, with the hippocampus and the cingulated gyrus, thus taking part in what is known as the Papez's circuit.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Nervous system

The nervous system is a network of specialized cells that communicate information about an animal's surroundings and itself. It processes this information and causes reactions in other parts of the body. It is composed of neurons and other specialized cells called glia, that aid in the function of the neurons. The nervous system is divided broadly into two categories; the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system. Neurons generate and conduct impulses between and within the two systems.

The peripheral nervous system is composed of sensory neurons and the neurons that connect them to the nerve cord, spinal cord and brain, which make up the central nervous system. In response to stimuli, sensory neurons generate and propagate signals to the central nervous system which then processes and conducts signals back to the muscles and glands. The neurons of the nervous systems of animals are interconnected in complex arrangements and use electrochemical signals and neurotransmitters to transmit impulses from one neuron to the next.

The interaction of the different neurons form neural circuits that regulate an organism's perception of the world and what is going on with its body, thus regulating its behavior. Nervous systems are found in many multicellular animals but differ greatly in complexity between species

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Typography

Typography is the art, craft and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic artists, art directors, and clerical workers. Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Graphic design: Twentieth century design

Who originally coin the term "graphic design" appears to be in dispute. It has been credited to Richard Guyatt, the British fashionable and academic, but one more source suggests William Addison Dwiggins, an American book fashionable in the early 20th century

The signage in the London Underground is a classic of the current era and used a font intended by Edward Johnston in 1916.

In the 1920s, Soviet constructivism applied 'intellectual manufacture in different spheres of manufacture. The movement saw individualistic art as useless in radical Russia and thus moved towards creating substance for utilitarian purposes. They intended buildings, theater sets, posters, fabrics, clothing, furniture, logos, menus, etc.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Emergence of the design industry

In late 19th century Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom, the movement began to divide graphic design from fine art. Piet Mondrian is recognized as the father of graphic design. He was a fine artist, but his use of grids enthused the modern grid system used today in publicity, print and web layout.

In 1849, Henry Cole became one of the main forces in design teaching in Great Britain, informing the government of the significance of design in his Journal of Design and Manufactures. He prearranged the Great Exhibition as a festivity of modern industrial skill and Victorian design.

From 1892 to 1896 William Morris' Kelmscott Press in print books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts group, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic modification and selling them to the wealthy for a premium. Morris proved that a market existed for works of explicit design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from manufacture and from fine art. The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with past styles. This historicism was, however, significant as it amounted to the first important response to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press group, directly influenced Art Nouveau and is not directly responsible for development in early twentieth century graphic design in universal.

Monday, September 22, 2008

The advent of printing

During the Tang dynasty among the 4th and 7th century A.D. wood blocks were cut to print on textile and later to replicate Buddhist texts. A Buddhist scripture written in 868 is the earliest known printed book. Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were shaped using movable type printing making books widely existing during the Song dyanasty. Sometime around 1450, Johann Gutenberg's print press made books widely existing in Europe. The book design of Aldus Manutius urbanized the book structure which would become the basis of western magazine design. This era of graphic design is call Humanist or Old Style.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Possible complication And Prevention

Possible complication :

* Liver collapse and kidney collapse

* Destruction of blood cells

* Meningitis

* Rupture of the spleen and successive massive hemorrhage

Prevention :

Most people living wage in malaria-prevalent areas have acquired some immunity to the disease. Visitors will not have immunity, and will need to take deterrent medications. Even pregnant women should take preventive medication since the risk to the fetus from the medicine is less than the risks of acquire a congenital disease.

People on anti-malarial medications may still turn into infected. Avoid mosquito bites by wearing protective clothes over the arms and legs, using screens on windows, and with insect repellent.

Chloroquine has been the medicine of choice for protection from malaria. With emerging fighting, it is now only indicating for use in area where Plasmodium vivax, P. oval, and P. malariae are present. Falciparum malaria is fetching increasingly defiant to anti-malarial medications.

For travelers head for areas Falciparum malaria is known to occur, there are numerous options for antimalarial treatment, counting mefloquine, atovaquone/Proguanil, and doxycycline.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Malaria Symptoms and Treatment

Symptoms of Malaria:

* Chills

* Fever

* Sweating

* Headache

* Nausea

* Vomiting

* Muscle pain

* Anemia

* Stools, bloody

* Jaundice

* Convulsion

* Coma

Treatment for Malaria:

Anti-malarial drugs can be arranged to people traveling to areas where malaria is prevalent. It is vital to see your health care provider well in go forward of your departure, because action may begin as long as 2 weeks before toward the inside the area, and carry on for a month after leaving the area. The types of anti-malarial medication arranged will depend on the drug-resistance pattern in the areas to be visited.

According to the CDC, traveler going to South America, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Asia, and the South Pacific should take one of the next drugs: mefloquine, doxycycline, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, or Malarone.

Malarone is a moderately new anti-malarial drug in the U.S. and is a mixture of atovaquone and proguanil. It may be optional over the other drugs mention, depending on your purpose and the opportunity of mefloquine resistance.

It is very significant to know the countries and areas you will be visit to obtain suitable preventive hold for malaria.