ABSTRACT: Inside euclidian geometry, from graphical point of view, is proposed how to obtain a parabola knowing two of its points and the tangent at the vertex. Those two points are at equal or at different distances from the tangent at the vertex. The problem has a solution using an uncommon construction (Fig. 1), already used in BONIFÁCIO, 2005, 64, which consists of determining the middle point M of the orthogonal projection of a point P of the parabola at the vertex tangent and the vertex itself. is the tangent in P. The orthogonal right line of this tangent at the point M (...)

ABSTRACT: Although technological development has created several tools and techniques of graphic representation, we highlight here the importance of the manual drawing abilities for the design creative process. Freehand drawing is used to facilitate the development of projects and show them more quickly and efficiently, and is an essential technique for any designer, regardless is informational, product or fashion designer.   KEYWORDS: Drawing; Design; Graphic Representation. (...)

ABSTRACT: This article presents considerations on the expressive graphics elements, such as points, lines, planes, stains, colors, shades and textures, also considering the established associations between structure expressive graphic and the situations experienced in the material world. These associations produce figurative denotations and connotations rhythmic, dynamic and spatial, among others. The elements and expressive relations establish three levels of meaning, the pre-figurative, figurative and level-level metafigurativo. The semantic field of graphic representation is established in (...)

ABSTRACT: The language in the contemporaneous, for treating from essential factor to the communication and artistic expression, mainly starting from the intense expansion of the industrial techniques, it’s makes way for a considerable reflection: the stylistic relationship among the industrial object, the craft and the properly artistic work (DORFLES, 1988). The aesthetics, as inherent factor and mediator the all these subjects, is capable to establish similarities between the design concept and the contemporary art. Starting from this panorama an interpretative analysis is delineated on (...)

ABSTRACT: Trough this research article, which derives from a research project for PhD in Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon, we intend to make known the thought of Daciano da Costa (1930-2005), among the international scientific community, about the importance he conferred to Drawing, along his teaching career and his professional practice as a reference figure of Design in the 20th century in Portugal. We focus on the important role played by Drawing, through the case study Daciano da Costa. His pedagogical action in teaching the Drawing subject demonstrates the importance he (...)

ABSTRACT: Based in aesthetic relationship between concepts of content and form intends to establish an relationship of analogy between ornaments and crystals. With the objective of building an theoretical investigation of relating the dynamics that happens in the crystals´ atoms to the symmetrical intervals of the ornamental patterns, it tries to draw a reasoning line that is going from the ‘Idea’ of Plato and ‘poiésis’ of Aristotle, until Hegel& (...)

ABSTRACT: Through some examples, we intend to argue that the knowledge of geometry and, in particular, the knowledge of conic curves and their applications, may potentiate the project work of designers, reducing the costs of hardware and software in teaching and professional work, reducing also the need for sophisticated and expensive means, and its continuous updating, and the use of software which involves specialized training, and especially requiring long training periods. We want to contribute to the recognition of the importance of the study of these curves and surfaces generated by (...)

ABSTRACT: The rationalism appears as a philosophical current whose mental process and logic and evidenced, with the main characteristic of modern thought the method, the Bauhaus represents for the design the way the industry undressed the ornaments seeking the ideal of form and function. In a current contemporary design the emotional recovery in addition to the functions that an object can have, aesthetic, practical and symbolic, also the emotional identification, making review the methods. This article makes a relation of this context with the brilliantly that the couple Charles and Ray (...)

ABSTRACT: As an object with cultural and museological value, the poster can be approached by means of two historical narratives: communication context and technical and artistic context. Conducting a critic review on the poster& (...)

ABSTRACT: This theoretical-practical investigation explores the arena of public art, focused on participatory design, which is sustained by an integrated view of the place. In this context, place is considered as an interaction between a set of human, biophysical, geographical, economic, political, historical, social, cultural and ecological conditions that characterize and determine, greatly, life in that place. This view focuses on a specificity of place that relates to the labor activities and natural resources manifest locally and, consequently, in the landscape. The methodology used in (...)

RESUMO: O foco desta investigação é analisar a importância do Desenho no âmbito do processo de Design. Uma vez que o designer tem de conceber e desenvolver soluções para problemas concretos que podem ser de natureza muito diferente, o Desenho apresenta-se como um suporte operacional para a resolução de problemas e análises críticas no processo conceptual do Design. Actualmente o uso alargado das novas tecnologias não invalida o importante papel desempenhado pelo desenho à mão enquanto instrumento (...)

ABSTRACT: Over the years, PIXAR studio was established in the world of 3D Animation, implementing innovated digital techniques that contributed to a great development in the area of Animation and even in computer graphics. This article describes the 12 basic principles of traditional animation and analyzes its applications in the 3D animated film of PIXAR Studios, "Toy Story" from 1995. This animated film is a turning point in the animation and it was the first full-length feature produced using computer animation and the first feature film produced by PIXAR. The protagonists of this (...)

ABSTRACT: As the designer has to conceive and develop solutions for specific problems which can be of different nature, sketches may present themselves as an operative support for conceptual reflection, problem solving and critical analyses within the several phases of the design process. One of the main questions we would like to find answers is if the nowadays wide use of new technologies doesn’t invalidate the important role played by hand drawing as a stimulating instrument when sketching the first ideas and as a critical verification of the hypotheses. Based on a survey methodology (...)

ABSTRACT: It is intended to reflect on the current role of Information Design, emphasizing its importance in dissemination of messages useful and usable for individuals, in a period increasingly characterized by excessive information. Information Designer presents himself as a "transformer" of information, a "translator" of what is real, since he has to understand first and then to know how to explain phenomena, which presupposes certain mental and technical procedures. It is necessary to reduce "noise" that invades our environment, to impose information and (...)

ABSTRACT: This article comes as part of the PhD thesis developing design with main focus on tattoo as a graphic expression, in Portugal. One of the most important characteristics of the tattoo is the fact of materializing certain biographical aspects about its wearer, as well as "denouncing" in a more or less direct way its consumption and its identity construction. The tattoo as a graphic expression, will not only inscribe ink in the form of letters in Portuguese human skin, but "impressions" of the individual world of a particular consumer in relation to their social (...)