: A support environment for audio-related artistic design is described. The first part of the paper identifies requirements for artistic design support through an analysis of music composition activities, and presents an artistic design system object model adapted from the more conventional

Abstract. Fabric products, with its characteristics like rich colors, diversified patterns and function of softening rigid space, have attracted great attention from designers. Meanwhile, quilting products, which is one variety of fabric products with a strong flavor of artistic, will result

specialist skills, and that this can be communicated to students through teaching. Those teaching art and design programs in universities are most often also practicing artists and designers. As creative practitioners they work in a variety of creative fields including the visual arts, industrial design

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Several years ago a native found in the bed of the Alpheus River in Greece a roughly rectangular sheet of metal which was evidently the flattened side of a cylindrical vessel, possibly a bucket or similar container. A repousee design in Greek style of considerable artistic merit had been formed

framework for processing images by example, called “image analogies. ” The framework involves two stages: a design phase, in which a pair of images, with one image purported to be a “filtered ” version of the other, is presented as “training data”; and an application phase, in which the learned filter

, and for particular forms, e.g., design engineering. Theories are a basis for deriving theory-based design methods. Both are useful for education. Design engineering and artistic forms of designing, industrial design, have much in common, but also differences. For an attractive and user-friendly product, its form

and living of students from the several aspects of the campus culture and atmosphere of teaching environment, so as to make traditional culture essentially promote reform and development of artistic designing teaching mode in higher vocational and junior colleges.

, and particular forms, e.g. design engineering. Theories are a basis for deriving theory-based design methods. Design engineering and artistic forms of designing, industrial design, have much in common, but also differences. For an attractive and user-friendly product, its form (observable shape) is important – a

This paper attempts to put into context the development of research methodology in the Crafts. It considers the formal requirements for research by higher degrees, and defines the term 'practice-led'. It observes that there appears to be a lack of critical contemporary debate in the Crafts. It is proposed that research can be an important factor in the development of defining and elaborating this critical context. Conversely this lack of critical context could be seen to hamper research in the discipline. The paper then reviews the current state of completed formal research, * revealing a predominance of historical, theoretical, and educational research strategies. Four practice-led research projects are then described: one completed Ph.D and two ongoing Ph.D research programmes (all in ceramics), and a further example drawn from professional practice (jewellery). These examples are described in terms of general methodological approach then expanded by specific methods. The paper concludes by proposing generic methodological guidelines for future research in the Crafts, so that learning, personal practice and the development of a critical context for the Crafts may benefit from the adoption and promotion of 'accessible disciplined inquiry'.