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The Design History Society is an arts history organisation founded in 1977 [1] to promote and support the study and understanding of design history. The Society undertakes a range of charitable activities intended to encourage and support research and scholarship, to offer information and create networking opportunities, to foster student participation and public recognition of the subject ...
Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts. [1] With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008.
The University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, founded in 1088, the world's oldest university in continuous operation [1] Established in 1224 by Frederick II during his rule as King of Sicily, the University of Naples Federico II in Naples, Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation.
The postwar years, between 1945 and 1952 in West Germany were characterized by heavy restructuring and financing plans, such as the Marshall Plan.. The origins of HfG go back to an initiative by the brother-and-sister Scholl Foundation.
Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture design, creating clean, pure lines based on an understanding of classical furniture craftsmanship coupled with careful research into materials, proportions ...
Cover of the first edition, 1874. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (German: Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. Zweites Stück: Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben) is a work by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1874 and the second of his four Untimely Meditations.
This is a history of the various versions of Microsoft Office, consisting of a bundle of several different applications which changed over time.This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software.