Color Wheel Color Calculator
The Sessions Color Calculator is an interactive color wheel that helps designers select HTML, RGB, or CMYK colors and identifies color harmonies and schemes. Our Color Wheel works faster than any other color wheel or html color chart.
A Colorful Menu
Household appliance makers are always looking for ways to make their products and brands look unique. New colors and decorative trends in glass ceramic cooktops offer innovative solutions. Colors convey emotions and values. They can give a product an exclusive look and influence a consumer’s buying behavior much like a compass that guides them on [...]
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
The sixth annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show, returning to New York City’s Pier 94 March 8-11, 2007, will feature the best in home products from nearly 300 companies. The annual four-day Show open to the public Friday to Sunday with an interior design trade and VIP consumer preview on Thursday comprises more than 110,000 [...]
Autonomous Transportation System
Photo: A computer rendered image of the S.A.T. Project running through an airport lounge. According to the UN, by 2030 about 5 billion people are expected to live in cities. Together China, India, and Brazil are projected to have as many urban inhabitants as the entire developed world (Hinrichsen, 2002).
America’s Greenest Buildings
Does your office environment get you down? Then you might want to consider working with Tom Hicks. A vice president at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which awards ratings to buildings that achieve environmentally friendly targets, Hicks has the fortune to work in a building that has achieved “gold” status, and on a floor [...]
Europan 9
Today, Monday 5 February, 2007 the ninth session of Europan is launched. The generic theme of Europan 9 – European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces – specifically involves collaboration with the cities and urban developers in the organizing countries. Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make [...]
Objects in mirror are wider than they appear
This is an interesting story. It shows one more time how we design spaces affect people’s behavior. Robert Kilroy-Silk (on the photo) currently an independent MEP, has raised the issue in the European Parliament of intentionally distorting mirrors in clothes stores, specifically Marks & Spencer.
How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography
Don’t you like digital cameras? Take a photo, look at it, if you don’t like it, delete and re-take! Here are some tips for capturing good photos! When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for an like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines.
20 Houses by Twenty Architects
This volume, now also available in paperback, inaugurates a new Electaarchitecture series on residential architecture and presents an illustrated portfolio of 20 innovative, talked-about houses built around the world during the past decade by both celebrated architects and emerging young designers.
Royal Haskoning’s winning design
Nakheel invited architects to make a concept master plan design for Palm Jebel Ali, just off the coast of Dubai. The winning design submitted by Royal Haskoning and D103 International consists of a surface area of 300,000m² to be used for sports activities, residential housing, a retail sector, and office buildings.
Tabanlioglu Architects design Istanbul’s sparkling Tower
Istanbul is a city of youthful dynamism with its eye on the high-tech future and the profits and innovations. The 261 meter tower will be one of the highest structures in the central business district of Istanbul. Rising upward, the building gets slightly thinner. At the fourth level, it slightly broadens downwards and the glass [...]
