Centuries ago when traditional art was being practiced at its peak, art was considered as a prime source of life to the cultural practices of the people in the community/society. In a traditional Tiv society, for instance, every family house or grown-up person (adult) used to have Itimbe-gbenda strategically installed at the entrance way to the compound. Itimbe-gbenda is an artistically carved object in human form with traditional motifs on the surface.
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Tiv Traditional Art: "Itimbe-Gbenda" and Its Dying Essence
Architectural drafting is basically a method of creating drawing for buildings and other structures. To do architectural drafting it requires studying the design and construction basics. The traditional way of architectural drafting is making design on paper.
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Architectural Drafting and Designing
Graphic Design. Mention these two words at your yearly family gathering and dear aunty Liz will ask you to design a logo and web site for her Tuisnywerheid. “As a favour” she’ll add, with her manicured talons tapping the table. Of course you do it, afraid that refusing will cause a family ‘Skandal’.
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The Tortured Graphic Designer
Graphic Design. Mention these two words at your yearly family gathering and dear aunty Liz will ask you to design a logo and web site for her Tuisnywerheid. “As a favour” she’ll add, with her manicured talons tapping the table. Of course you do it, afraid that refusing will cause a family ‘Skandal’.
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The Tortured Graphic Designer
Nowadays T-shirt design software is getting popular around the world. Most of the website owners have included the T-shirt design tool to their websites. This will help people to make use of these effective online T-shirt design tools. It is very different experience working on the online design tools on T-shirts…
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Now Create a Custom T-Shirt Design by Using an Online T-Shirt Design Tool
Learning layers in After Effects CS5 is a fundamental to ‘putting things together’. Part of the magic of animation and graphics software applications is the fact that you can blend different resources together. Your sources can cross media boundaries with snapshot from your camera, graphic images from Illustrator and video from your camcorder. There are some basic rules to how layers behave and how your can learn more to get the most out of your After Effects layers.
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After Effects CS5 – Learning Layers
There is a popular saying that “the journey of two thousand miles starts with just a step.” However, the slowness or fastness of the journey depends on the pace at which a person is moving. This is exactly the case with the Kaduna state Society of Nigerian Artists’ (SNA) Interim body set to revive SNA in Kaduna.
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Artists in Kaduna Re-Affairms Commitment to Revive SNA in The State
The history of modern art in Nigeria started around 1920s. During this period, most parents abhor their children to study art courses in the higher institutions. The ones that dare to do otherwise as insisted by their parents may face certain sanctions that are not conducing for their age and future as well.
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Art Enrollment in Nigerian Tertiary Schools
Through my study of art, I come to discover that, some artists are as controversial as the art they sometimes create. No artist would ordinarily like his or her art to be silent. While others (artists) produce thought provoking art pieces to open up a hidden secret about bad practices being carried out in the society, some artists would just make a creative humor of a painful situation of an issue troubling people in the mind.
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The Growth of Unconventional Art in Today’s World
The word ‘decoration’ has an equivalent meaning with other words like embellishment, beautification, adornment, ornamentation etc. All these words point to the art of aesthetics. The term aesthetics is often used to mean the study of beauty especially the ‘outward appearance’ of an object or the way something looks when considered in terms of how pleasing it looks.
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The Difference Between an Artist and a Mere Decorator
