Admit it. It’s fun to laugh at global warming deniers. Until you realize that they’re serious. Design can be many things, but the thing at which it succeeds best is education. Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) has created a graphic entitled “Climate Stripes” which make an eloquent, and damning point. The Earth is indeed …
We’re fascinated by airlines. Specifically, the airlines operating in the period of c. 1950-1980. During those three decades, something extraordinary happened: design and technology merged for the first time with audacious, striking results. Looking backward at the history of aviation design (graphics, illustrations, photography, couture +), there is a marked shift in how the industry …
LOOKING good can be bad for the planet. Massive amounts of energy, water and other resources are needed to make clothes. From the pesticides poured on cotton fields to the washes in which denim is dunked, making 1kg of fabric generates 23kg of greenhouse gases on average, reckons McKinsey, a consultancy. Because consumers keep almost every type of apparel only half as long as they did 15 years ago, these inputs go to faster than ever before. More than half of the fastest-fashion items made are chucked away within a year of production. But such rampant retail therapy costs the earth.https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/04/11/the-environmental-costs-of-creating-clothes?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxuCnBhDLARIsAB-cq1oYxEVo5hCbcyps9SNVNujmZqgcSOe79OTnwTlN9HilD6gSLaMpR6waApeeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Though rooted in Buddhism, mandalas soon became present in Hinduism and other religious practices. Painters of the spiritual craft were often pious laymen, who were commissioned by a patron. They worked seated on the floor with a painting propped in their laps or in front of their crossed legs.
