Sentence examples for period of design from inspiring English sources

Today's stand-up coasters recall an earlier period of design and innovation.

While Vignelli's half century of accomplishments certainly defines an anti-ornamental period of design, a majority of the work shown here has not gone out of style.

However, of these seismic intensity measures, the return period of design earthquakes is more useful, as seismic hazard curves are generally represented with the return period of design earthquakes; seismic design codes also require consideration of the return period of the design earthquake spectrum for a specific site.

The rapid and sustained growth of the Chinese economy, the desire of enlightened clients to create signature buildings, and the ability of Chinese domestic fabricators to produce high quality architectural components at a fraction of the cost of those available in the developed U.S. and European markets have all coalesced into an unprecedented period of design opportunity.

Short period of design spectra is usually governed by the contribution of near-field accelerogram records (moderate earthquakes) and long period of design spectrum is controlled by far-field records (large earthquakes) (Adams and Atkinson 2003 and Humar and Mahgoub 2003).

The report also tried to revive the flagging spirits of researchers who may have lost interest in the project because of what it called the "long time period of design and construction without any data flow".

Many Adobe executives I talked to at MAX referred to this as a period of "design-led innovation". And they pointed to the company itself as an exemplar of this trend.

Designers are good at coming up with new ways of looking at complex problems, and if President-elect Barack Obama delivers anything like a W.P.A, we could be "standing on the brink of one of the most productive periods of design ever," said Reed Kroloff, director of Cranbrook Academy of Art.

This in turn led to even more centralized and hierarchical labs and even longer periods of design and performance of the experiments.

As the drainage engineer must decide how much unwanted water there will be and when it will occur, the chapter discusses climatic types, prediction of rainfall, evapotranspiration effects, return periods (of design storms and runoff events), river flow and flood prediction, and various sensing systems for providing short term predictions of rainfall, runoff, streamflow and flood warning.

After a period of professional design experience as Senior Designer for Amtrak and Designer and Research Associate for Herman Miller Research Corporation, he joined the faculty in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University in 1978.