The phrase "a time when design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or moment in which design played a significant role or was particularly relevant.
Example: "There was a time when design was considered an essential part of product development, influencing both functionality and aesthetics."
Alternatives: "an era when design" or "a period when design".
It's remarkably easy to forget that there ever was a time when design engineers and architects manipulated 3-dimensional objects and scientists estimated model variables on blackboards.
This message is not easily received at a time when design has become a refuge for careerists, a stronghold for many who have nothing to say and insist on saying it.
It's a tough question at a time when "design" no longer means the world of desirable objects that fill the pages of Sunday supplements, but has expanded to encompass everything from digital networks to artificial organs, extending its slippery tentacles into every field imaginable – and inventing new ones that don't yet exist.
(One urged us to rediscover the "sensual pleasure" of washing up. Excuse me?) But Design Academy Eindhoven, the hot Dutch design school, staged a compelling exhibition of its graduates' conceptual projects — titled "?" (An apt title at a time when design is in flux).
Mostly, Pioneer's built-in interfaces display uninspiring visuals, with graphics that feel like they've been plucked from the 90s at a time when design was considered secondary.
Some of the additional costs could also be attributed to unforeseen complications, Duncan said, but others were due to the contractors trying to make up for lost time when design changes were required.
At a time when conceptual design is increasingly fashionable, particularly among young designers, Mr. Trimarchi and Mr. Farresin's skill at exploring such concerns while also satisfying the conventional design criteria of function and aesthetics has placed them at the forefront.
The Museum of London is celebrating his work at a time when information design is equally important.
Failure to consider human factors issues at a time when other design decisions are being taken often means that it is less straightforward to accommodate changes.
Joan Kron, a co-author with Suzanne Slesin of "High Tech," the bible of industrial style, said: "It was a time when for design purists, finding a plain black shower curtain was nirvana.
Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University's School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically altered by digital technology.
