Sentence examples for abandoned designs from inspiring English sources

The potters of the 16th century abandoned designs altogether and simply coated the vessel with a white slip either entirely or partially with a wide brush leaving the traces of the swift brush movement, an effect that helped to create a sense of spontaneity.

While the large number of abandoned designs and false starts could be perceived as lost time and resources, these prototyping and debugging phases foreground necessary design considerations such as the importance of units when engaging in measurement and highlight the large space of design possibilities.

But when a chair he created for Olivetti never saw the light of day because of the company's financial difficulties, Mr. Pollock abandoned design and began producing paintings and sculptures instead.

The team had a test bed system in flights later that year, but progress was delayed for four years by emergency relocations, three abandoned production designs, and Bowen's increasingly adversarial relationship with Watt's replacement, Albert Percival Rowe.

Some of these pistols had a novel lock designed by Nock, originally intended for an abandoned musket design requested by the Duke of Richmond in 1786 while serving as Master-General of the Ordnance.

Now, having abandoned a design that had gone unchanged since the 1950's, designers will have to re-imagine the staplers every few years to keep their glamour alive.

Cochlear later abandoned his design in favor of the multichannel version.

The stations possess the discreet majesty of abandoned cathedrals, designed for vastly more people than currently use them, like ruins that have never been inhabited.

In 1955, having seen provincial theatres, hit by television, playing safe with comedies and thrillers, he abandoned the design of "endless living rooms" and went to teach at secondary schools in Sittingbourne, Kent (1959-60), then at Bideford in Devon (1961-66).

Lawmakers attempted to shift to a white field with blue lettering in the mid-1970's, but abandoned the design because the blue wore away too easily, Mr. Seymour said.

A graduate of the prestigious Antwerp Academy (where a generation of Belgian fashion talent, including Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester, studied), Philips abandoned fashion design to take up a career in make-up after working as a "dresser" backstage at the prêt-à-porter shows in Paris.