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  The American author of the book In The City of Bikes, Pete Jordan tries to explain the culture and experience he got from   Amsterdam, Netherlands on cycling.   Pete visits Amsterdam with the aim of staying for only one semester, but he is enticed by the city so quickly and soon he together with his wife decides to explore the city on two wheels.   The author tries to unfold the story of the cycling history in the town which he says it dates from the 1890’s. The bike centric-culture in the Dutch society and across the world today has its details of origin from the city  The story revolves around the unique biking history and brings out the idea of having an alternative to dependence on cars and other forms of transport. When the author reaches Amsterdam, he and his new wife struggle to ensure they acquire bikes to join the others in what he called “fan and culture.”   In the 1970’s all types of visitors including students, nomads, exiles ...

The term ethical fashion has been used widely to bring out the image of design, sourcing, and making of clothing that matches with the societal likes and cultures of different communities. The word “ethical” shows that the attire is morally acceptable and have no harm to the affected culture. According to Abrahamson, 2011 the fashion industry is one of the most growing sectors in today’s world of business.  The old fashions are being replaced by new ones with more creativity being added to the designs.  However, some issues are closely associated with the fashion trends irrespective of the society in question. These are the fashion ethics, fashion thinking, models and ethical fashion thinking.  All these factors are aimed at understanding of fashion while causing no harm to the environment, economy and the society at large. In the society today there has been the urge to identifying and using environmental friendly ethical production in all forms of products. Many of th...

  Carol Magee specializes in African contemporary art with a strange on photography . She is an assistant professor of art history at the University of North Carolina . In her research she focuses on the African urban photography and sound art that investigates in a emotional , physical , psychological , or philosophical aspect .   Carol Magee in Forever in Kente : Ghanaian Barbie and the fashioning of Identity published in 2005 writes in her postscript acknowledgements, an attempt to examine the costuming of Mattel ‘ s Ghanaian Barbie and tell about issues in terms of nostalgia , imperialism and identity and this in post Cold War American World Magee.  center of interest focus on Mattel ' s Ghanaian Barbie , how is dress in a traditional costume from the West African country of Ghana . The doll is part of the ' Dolls of the world ' series that begun ...

  Javier Gimeno-Martínez is a Design Historian and an assistant Professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam.  He holds two MA-degree, one in Industrial Design (Universidad Cardenal Herrera) and an MA-degree on Art History (Universidad de Valencia) on the top of that he he obtained his PhD (KULeuven) in 2006 with his Thesis “The Role of the Creative Industries in the Construction of Regional/European Identities (1975-2002): Design and Fashion in Belgium and Spain.”    The text sets out the political reasons behind the Spanish Autonomous Communities and connected with the design process of logos and heraldic emblem. Within the changes of the seventeen new democratic regions in Spain from 1977-1991.   “New autonomous governments, who opted to create their down identity signs in order to manifest their presence among their voters.” Javier Gimeno-Martínez goes on to explain how the designs composition s where received by the individual regions and wh...

                 

In some stairs and two hundred items of a beautiful diversity,  California: Designing Freedom exhibition present the best of the creation of the 1960s until today.  The set allows provided an overview of different graphic universes. If the poster large format occupies the majority of the space, the exhibition also presents projects like the self-driving car, or advertising on giant screen, the working equipment and even a dose of LSD has Mickey's effigy in the Psychedelic design part.    I particularly appreciated the combination of the ultra modern building, the ceiling which seem to never end with the design works, in lively colors and geometrical forms. It gave rise to completely singular, original and unpredictable visual style.   One of the thing that I find abosoltly amazing is that it's impossible to date the posters, I had to verify on the small sign. It tricked me evrey time.     It seems to me that the public, ...

Christine Riding is the Senior Curator and Head of Arts at the National Maritime Museum and before this was Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Art at Tate Britain .   In this text she introduces to the reader the origin and development of the Orientalism in British art , taking as element of study various themes of Orientalist paintings . The author described in the text the possible motivations and interpretations of the British painting in the Orient . The final result are a deep but simple text likely to appeal both to academics and well as to art enthusiasts . 'The Lure of the East shows in a good way the relationship of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Orientalist paintings in Britain .    As a reader you feel very keen to be informed while going through the text and feel quite prepared to conduct any further research on a variety of related topics . Different parts of the text transmit to the reader the vast cultura...