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Wallpaper was often made in elaborate floral patterns with primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) in the backgrounds and overprinted with colours of cream and tan. This was followed by Gothic art inspired papers in earth tones with stylized leaf and floral patterns.
Lisa Frank (born 1955) is an American artist and businesswoman, the founder of Lisa Frank Incorporated, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.She is known for producing whimsical commercial design for school supplies and other products that are primarily marketed to children and young adolescents.
Massimo Vignelli was born in Milan in 1931. [5] He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and later at the Università Iuav di Venezia. [6] At the age of 16, he joined the Castiglioni brothers' firm, which designed in a wide variety of areas, to work as a draftsman.
[5] [1] [13] Her projects for Microsoft include the card deck for Windows 3.0's solitaire game, [26] [27] which taught early computer users to use a mouse to drag and drop objects on a screen. In 1987, she designed a "baroque" wallpaper, [9] numerous other icons, and design elements for Windows 3.0, [2] using isometric 3D and 16 dithered colors ...
Invitations may most formally be addressed by hand to show the importance and personal meaning of the occasion. Large numbers of invitations may be mechanically reproduced. As engraving was the highest quality printing technology available in the past, this has become associated with wedding invitation tradition. Receiving an invitation does ...
His reputation grew in the US following the invitation to hold a retrospective exhibition of his works at MOMA in New York in 1938. (This was his first visit to the States.) The exhibition, which later went on a 12-city tour of the country, was a landmark: Aalto was the second-ever architect – after Le Corbusier – to have a solo exhibition ...
Broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, and 3D. Launched in 1955, ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. [50] Director Ridley Scott's evocative 1973 Hovis bread television commercial captured the public imagination.
Portrait of Taytu Betul wearing Habesha Kemis, artist George Prokopiou 1905. Habesha kemis (Amharic: ቀሚስ lit. "Shirt" or "Dress") is the traditional attire of Habesha women.