Design facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

Design is a visual look or a shape given to a certain object, in order to make it more attractive, make it more comfortable or to improve another characteristic. Designers use tools from geometry and art. Design is sometimes divided to sub-categories: graphic design, buildings and nature design, consumer goods design.

Design is also a concept used to create an object (virtual or not).

Design is picturing things using the imagination; as to using perception or memory.

Images for kids

Cutlery designed by architect and designer Zaha Hadid (2007). The slightly oblique end part of the fork and the spoons, as well as the knife handle, are examples of a design that cares for both form and function.
A terminal at Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain
A drawing for a booster engine for steam locomotives. Engineering is applied to design, with emphasis on function and the utilization of mathematics and science.
Jonathan Ive has received several awards for his design of Apple Inc. products like this MacBook. In some design fields, personal computers are also used for both design and production
An example of a business workflow process using Business Process Model and Notation.

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