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Different Easter traditions around the world
The significance of Easter eggs and bunnies in modern culture
The importance of the holiday in the Christian faith
Clean, logical, and precise
Renaissance architecture called for a return to Classical logic. Simple geometric forms replaced ornate complexity. Designs became cleaner.
It’s magical how alike the recent “flat design ” movement is to the Renaissance.
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Order and proportion, with some embellishment
The Classical period refined proportions and hierarchies. It introduced clearly divided sections that served different purposes.
The mediums (stone, pixel) were also stylized to mimic prior materials: the stone
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Twisting all the rules
Being logical and precise is entertaining for only so long. Eventually, we’ll just start breaking rules. In architecture that meant breaking Classic elements and twisting them into complex forms. Baroque designs were emotional and theatric.
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Harkening back to the past
Everything eventually comes full circle. Once we progress enough, we start to glorify our Classical beginnings and go full retro.
Neoclassical web design is a ways ahead. The old Yahoo website still looks so wanting to us, not sacred. But i...
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Western architecture can teach us about the evolution of web design. They are both forms of art, and both progressed similarly, building on the past and reacting to it.
The following factors define both.
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Ornate and mesmerizing
Gothic architecture transformed stone into gravity-defying spectacles.
CSS and Flash were the stained glass of web design. Once the fundamentals were in place, we started pushing materials beyond their reasonable limits. The early Flash and CSS...
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After neoclassical, It will likely be some kind of Neoromanesque or Neogothic. Something Neo. Art continually repeats itself in the form of revivals.
Eventually, new technology and a new worldview will change everything to such an extent that we can’t even imagine it today.
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Simple, limited structures define this era. It was quite something to get the structures in place.
The World Wide Web also started off as a very simple structure.
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The Romanesque period softened the edges but also thickened the walls and dividers — and menus, and buttons — to produce bulkier, heavier, more clickable forms.
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