[Jewelry making - Article 00709] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry design - what & where to learn

[leonid surpin]

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>     I see beauty in WWII aircraft design. I mean, just LOOK at a
>     Messerschmidt 109 or a Supermarine Spitfire. That beauty arose out
>     of a mechanical contraption. Did the engineers think, "um, let's
>     design a sweet lookin plane" 

    Very good observation. 

    Good design is always functional. Airplane has to fly, which means
    it has to be aerodynamically correct, and this rightness makes it
    beautiful. Compare it to modern "fly by wire" planes. They do not 
have
    to aerodynamic and most of them are ugly. 

Leonid Surpin.
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