FacebookTweetPinLinkedIn The words engine and ingenious are derived from the same Latin root, ingenerare, which means “to create.” The early English verb engine meant “to contrive.” Thus the engines of war were devices such as catapults, floating bridges, and assault towers; their designer was the “engine-er,” or military engineer. The counterpart of the military engineer was the civil engineer, […]
FacebookTweetPinLinkedIn Design has been known to us right from the start of the civilisation. As we became more scientific we started to understand that a design is the best way to put forward our ideas without leaving any room for misinterpretation. ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ goes the adage, I think it is […]
FacebookTweetPinLinkedIn When you look at the image below, what springs to mind? Would you have guessed that it is in fact made up of 100,000 photographs shared on Twitter in Los Angeles during the summer of 2013? This installation is one of several in the collection Instagram Cities by Damon Crockett, where photographs that were posted on […]
