The serpentine aerofoil shape is designed to face into what little wind there is, generating a small amount of lift.
Solar panels aren't typically used, as Cochran's are, on the sides of buildings, because they work best when the sun hits them at a 90-degree angle; but Grow's foliagelike shape is designed for capturing oblique light.
Not only does the PadPivot do multi-angle, table-top tablet mounting and holding, but the contoured shape is designed for legs, too.
MG: Yes, the new curving shape is designed to optimize existing space without losing its connectivity to the city and the immediate environment.
The headpieces are created using 3D software a low polygon head shape is designed in 3ds Max, textures added in ZBrush, and then this wireframe design is put into a program that can read the facets as separate pattern pieces, she can then apply the patterns to whatever material she's using.
In the words of the artist, "The minimalistic shape is designed to elicit a sense of balance and multidimensionality while simultaneously playing host to an intricate audiovisual experimental and synesthetic choreography, further extending the dimensionality through its spatial and temporal dynamics, culminating in the creation of a dynamic non-linear sensory environment".
BEAUTY and BRAWN The hourglass shape was designed midcentury, before structural engineers came onboard to prove its strength.
Its striking fluid shape was designed to combine the outlines of three iconic chairs, but it's now become something of an icon itself.
The contrasting colors and shapes were designed to attract the attention of menacing strikes, and then to distract them, because the fragmented pattern distorts the goalie's silhouette.
Therefore, special cutting tools with different geometric shapes were designed.
