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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. The sign was designed by Betty Willis at the request of Ted Rogich, a local salesman, who sold it to Clark County, Nevada . The sign is located in the median at 5100 Las Vegas Boulevard South, north of the historic stone ...
The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling [1] book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable. One of the main premises of the book is that ...
Design pattern. A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander [1] and has been adapted for various other disciplines, particularly software engineering. [2]
Guide signs (案内標識, an'nai-hyōshiki) indicates directions or distances of the road. Guide signs have dark green backgrounds and white text for expressways. In urban areas and on national highways, direction signs have dark blue backgrounds. The signs are normally written in Japanese and English.
Pacific Design Center. The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1,600,000-square-foot (150,000 m 2) multi-use facility for the design community in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its large size relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.
The term block design by itself usually means a 2-design. Derived and extendable t-designs. Let D = (X, B) be a t-(v,k,λ) design and p a point of X. The derived design D p has point set X − {p} and as block set all the blocks of D which contain p with p removed. It is a (t − 1)-(v − 1, k − 1, λ) design. Note that derived designs with ...
Design Squad is an American reality competition television series targeted towards children ages 10–13. Contestants are high school students who design and build machines to compete for a $10,000 college scholarship from Intel . The series aired on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Go! from February 21, 2007 to December 9, 2009.
Sign extension. Sign extension (sometimes abbreviated as sext, particularly in mnemonics) is the operation, in computer arithmetic, of increasing the number of bits of a binary number while preserving the number's sign (positive/negative) and value. This is done by appending digits to the most significant side of the number, following a ...