Faced with this situation, the pewterers switched to imitating the designs used by the silversmiths, in the hope of gaining favor in the more ambitious middle class circles.
Apple with its Lisa and Macintosh computers and then Microsoft with its Windows operating system imitated the design of the Alto and Star systems in many ways.
Many of the complex natural architectures, such as shells, bones, and honeycombs, have been studied to imitate the design and fabrication of materials with improved hardness and stiffness.
Its cover imitates the design and typography of Sonny Rollins's 1957 album "Way Out West," replacing a Western desert landscape with what looks like East Coast beach scrub, a woman in a bikini and an inflatable cactus.
The video was posted to a pro-government YouTube channel called Hama News Network, which appears to be a conscious effort to imitate the design and style of the prominent activist video channel Shaams.
Larkin imitates the design in The Whitsun Weddings, but he puts his signature on the form by varying the placing of the short line: That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out, All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense Of being in a hurry gone.
This cheaply produced article offered keen competition to the genuine one and forced Kashmir weavers to compromise on quality and to imitate the designs of the Paisley workshops.
He wants to drive fashion trends, he says, not merely imitate the designs of others -- a jab at reactionary fast-fashion retailers that aim to bring simplified styles from high fashion runway shows to store shelves in a matter of days.
The basic idea of the present approach is to provide a computational framework for design synthesis by imitating the common design method of reviewing past designs to obtain solution concepts for a new design problem.
Commercial hives are designed to imitate the natural design bees would create in the wild.
