
), or at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (students including impressionist painter Edgar Degas, or American architect John Russell Pope who designed the National Archives and Records Administration building as well as the Jefferson Memorial, among others), etc etc. You'll find a few, or many, famously successful people who've studied at pretty much any of the best places to study arts in the US (. Īnd the RA is far from the only place with a history of teaching some fantastic artists. Turner, one of the most famous British painters of the 19th century, enrolled as a student at the age of 14 and where actors such as Alan Rickman, Tom Hiddleston, and Anthony Hopkins - among many others - studied). He registered at the Académie in November 1880, where he studied anatomy and the standard rules of modelling and perspective."Įdit 2: If interested in other examples, check out alumni lists of places such as London's Royal Academy of Arts (where for example, J. Van Gogh: " He traveled to Brussels later in the year, to follow Theo's recommendation that he study with the Dutch artist Willem Roelofs, who persuaded him – in spite of his dislike of formal schools of art – to attend the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. But actually I remembered Van Gogh already is the opposite example than you think. I was going to just write a vague comment that many of the world's best painters, musicians and film makers have studied before they became great, and cherry picking a few who haven't doesn't prove otherwise. it can be easier to market a lesser product, say, that's cheaper, even if it's disproportionately worse for that lower price can you still make it next year, next decade? Will people still want it even if you can? "Great designers" often are famous specifically for excelling here without major impairment of other requirements. : extremely variable among people so an optimum that many people agree on in this axis is very hard to reach. A worthy endeavour, certainly, but it's not the same thing.

If you focus only on the form, it's "just" art. Which basically none of the exhibits actually showed. "Design" means achieving an optimum in a highly multivariate requirements space: functionalities, ease of use, aesthetics, cost, material use, robustness, longevity of the design, scalability, cost to the user, cost to manufacture or provide, ease of marketing, etc etc.
TEN YEARS AFTER A SPACE IN TIME DVD FULL
Full of completely useless modern-art-esque "takes" on various items (one specific highly practical item notwithstanding: a specific chair design). The researchers, led by Gerta Keller of Princeton University and including experts from Germany, Switzerland and Mexico, studied a sample that extends 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the current surface, in the middle of the more than 125-mile-wide (200-kilometer-wide) crater.Reminds me of the Copenhagen Design Museum. “Since the early 1990s the Chicxulub crater on Yucatan, Mexico, has been hailed as the smoking gun that proves the hypothesis that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs and caused the mass extinction of many other organisms at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary 65 million years ago,” the researchers wrote in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.īut they said a core drilled out of the middle of the crater suggests it dates back more than 300,000 years before the K-T boundary and “thus did not cause the end-Cretaceous mass extinction as commonly believed.” When the huge, mostly underwater crater was found off Yucatan, it seemed the perfect candidate.
