Sentence examples for design gem from inspiring English sources

An essential quality of a national design gem is that it reflects the country's culture.

A British design gem, the 1950s and 1960s graphics magazine Typographica, is the subject of a retrospective at Kemistry Gallery, while Somerset House is showcasing the innovative fashion Web site SHOWstudio.com, founded by the British photographer Nick Knight.

When the Expo opened on May 1, a sprawling multibillion-dollar global theme park came to life with hundreds of national pavilions, including Saudi Arabia's spectacularly expensive IMAX-equipped pavilion and Britain's design gem, known as the "seed cathedral".

Or, "Why would you want to do that?" Having grown up in Rockaway and spent many an hour gazing out the windows of Beach Channel High School at this flattish white span held up with T-shaped steel and concrete girders, I confess it's no design gem.

Another 16km south, past grandly named mountains including the Dronningen (the Queen), the Kongen (the King), and Bispen (the Bishop), is another design gem, located at the bottom of the Valldal valley.

She studied graphic design in Porto, so is well placed to tell you about some of Porto's other architectural and design gems, of which there are many.

Even better than the Design Museum, is Artek furniture store, where design gems such as chairs by Aalto and Ilmari Tapiovaara can be tried out.

It's fantastic: packed with art nouveau and deco design gems, from an Eiffel Tower silver teapot to a bookcase shaped like a skyscraper.

Another is that they have the gutsy, no-nonsense engineering aesthetic of the K2, Routemaster and other national design gems, including the Concorde.

But having spent much of the past week downloading (or sometimes struggling to download) book and magazine apps in the search for design gems, I've come to the glum conclusion that most were designed with little or no imagination.

For its 100th anniversary, Steuben headed back to the archives and revived past design gems, including George Thompson's glass nut bowls ($400 for the pair), first produced in 1947.