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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York 2012 Takes Shape‎

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York begins Feb. 9. Just as shoppers are beginning to think about buying spring 2012 clothes, which are in stores now, the fashion industry is turning to fall 2012. Get ready for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall ’12! Starting on Thursday, February 9th, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York marks the start of the fashion month in which designers will show their Fall ’12 collections in New York, London, Milan, Paris and beyond!

This year for the Fall 2012 collections, nearly one-third of designers will be streaming their shows online. Maybelline New York Global Makeup Artist Charlotte Willer and Maybelline New York Makeup Artist for Spain, Gato, will continue to masterfully lead Maybelline New York’s backstage teams for several shows this season. Levi’s will debut a runway show for the first time during the week, as will the Theia line of dresses and gowns.

Designer Prabal Gurung will show a new label, called ICB by Prabal Gurung, in an online-only digital show that will air on Feb. 15. Maybelline New York, in partnership with YouTube and IMG, will once again deliver the excitement of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York to fashion lovers everywhere.

The schedule for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York

February 9

9:00 NICHOLAS K
10:00 BCBGMAXAZRIA
10:30-11:30 KAELEN
11:00 RICHARD CHAI
13:00 HONOR
14:00 TADASHI SHOJI
14:30-15:30 CANDELA
16:00 CHADWICK BELL
17:00 JOSEPH ABBOUD

February 10

10:00 PARKCHOONMOO
10:30-11:30 GREENSHOWS
11:00-12:00 CONCEPT KOREA
13:00 GENERAL IDEA
14:00 REBECCA TAYLOR
14:30-15:30 BRANDON SUN
15:00 REBECCA MINKOFF
17:30 TOMMY HILFIGER MEN’S
18:00 NICOLE MILLER
18:30-19:30 KATYA LEONOVICH
19:00 CHARLOTTE RONSON
20:00 ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY
21:00 POPLUXE

February 11

9:00 RUFFIAN
10:00 LACOSTE
10:30-11:30 PORTER GREY
11:00 JILL STUART
12:00 SON JUNG WAN
14:30-15:30 RAFAEL CENNAMO
14:00 MARA HOFFMAN
15:00 HERVÉ LÉGER BY MAX AZRIA
16:00 VANTAN TOKYO
18:00 TIBI
19:00 MONIQUE LHUILLIER
19:30-20:30 L.A.M.B.
21:00 VENEXIANA

February 12

10:30-11:30 LORENA SARBU
11:00 LELA ROSE
12:00 DEREK LAM
13:00 DKNY
14:00 TRACY REESE
14:30-15:30 JOY CIOCI
15:00 CUSTO BARCELONA
16:00 DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
17:00 FALGUNI & SHANE PEACOCK
17:00 Y-3
18:00 CARMEN MARC VALVO
19:30-20:30 MATHIEU MIRANO
21:00 TIMO WEILAND

February 13

9:00-10:00 NEGARIN
9:00 JENNY PACKHAM
10:00 CAROLINA HERRERA
11:00 CARLOS MIELE
13:00 ZANG TOI
13:30-14:30 EMILIO CAVALLINI
14:00 DONNA KARAN NEW YORK
15:00 REEM ACRA
16:00 YEOHLEE
17:00 BIBHU MOHAPATRA
18:00 BETSEY JOHNSON
18:30-19-30: LEATHER JAPAN 2012
19:00 PRETE & BRUNO

February 14

8:30-10:00 NORISOL FERRARI
9:00 TORY BURCH
9:30-10:30 J.CREW
10:00 BADGLEY MISCHKA
11:00 VERA WANG
13:00 DIESEL BLACK GOLD
14:00-15:30 FOTINI
14:00 NAEEM KHAN
15:00 DENNIS BASSO
17:00 PAMELLA ROLAND
19:30-20:30 HAUS ALKIRE
20:00 NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
21:00 EMERSON

February 15

9:00 WHITNEY EVE
10:00 MICHAEL KORS
10:30-11:30 ROCHAMBEAU
11:00 NANETTE LEPORE
12: 00 PORTS 1961
13:00 JOANNA MASTROIANNI
14:00-16:00 LEVI’S
14:00 J. MENDEL
14:30-15:30 SUZANNE RAE
15:00 MILLY BY MICHELLE SMITH
17:00 FARAH ANGSANA
18:00 ANNA SUI
18:30-19:30 NOMIA
19:00 VIVIENNE TAM
20:00 B MICHAEL AMERICA

February 16

10:00 RALPH LAUREN
11:00 RALPH LAUREN
14:00 CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION
15:00 CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION

February 8, 2012 Posted by | Designs, Fashion, News | , , , | Leave a comment

Features of Car Design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles. car designs evolve and change with time. Cars today are oval shaped on the outside, they do not have protruding antennas either, and the antennas are now inside the front or back windows.

The Kumho Epoch is designed by the Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho. It is a concept car and the world’s first eco-friendly car. The car engine can produce immense horsepower, has great climbing ability and superior steering control. Cars now have long and flowing arm rests where you can really rest your arm on. Toyota Fine-T is a concept car that made its first debut at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Saturn Flextreme is an innovative concept designed by General Motors.

A city car is a small automobile aimed for use in urban areas. A successor of the microcar is the modern Smart Fortwo. Superminis have three, four or five doors and are designed to seat four passengers comfortably. Today, superminis are some of the best selling vehicles in Europe. Small family/compact cars submit to the hatchbacks and shortest saloons and estate cars with similar size. Large family cars have room for five adults and a large trunk. Full-size cars may be well over 4900 mm long and are the roomiest vehicles while luxurious equivalents to mid-size and compact cars. Executive car is larger than a large family car/mid-size car and a compact executive car/entry-level luxury car. A full-size car is typically a four-door saloon and it is the most powerful saloons, with six, eight and twelve-cylinder engines and has more equipment than smaller models.

February 8, 2012 Posted by | Designs | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Landscape Photography Tips for Beginners

Landscape photography is a type proposed to show different places within the world, sometimes vast and endless, but other times tiny. This popular style of photography is practiced by professionals and unpaids alike. Landscape photography is an image that captures different spaces within the world not only the land but also the see view but it should looks like never ending view.

Landscape photography is lonely of the a good number sought in replication of types of photography at this time upsetting the photo souk and conclusion landscape photography tips can help change your average skills into the skills of an expert.

There are a lot of courses in nature landscape photography you can take that will tutor you the basics and take you on a real life workshop. Try and use the beautiful warm golden hours of early morning and late afternoon. Search for solid primary colors. Close a single eye to assist in termination the modern event you hope to capture. Subject matter, location, lighting and timing are also very important aspects in any type of photographic work, but mostly so in landscape photography. Emotion is one more quality that plays a part in landscape photography. Laughter, despair, hope, hopelessness, proud, age- a human face tells it all.

You must select the camera, lenses, and tripod that suit your style of traveling and general lifestyle. Who are interested in certain birds and animals in nature, can learn all lot on these courses. Landscape photography art is all about creativity that comes from your mind.

February 7, 2012 Posted by | Art, Fashion | , , , , | Leave a comment

Tips For Wildlife Photography

Wildlife photography can be the most difficult and worthwhile field of all. Animals and pets are less likely to follow way and professional photographers really have to use all their skills and timing to take remarkable images.

One aspect of pets and wildlife photography, is to create natural images in their natural environment but patience is key and professional photographers will have bounty. There are some simple things you can do that can help you take better wildlife photos no matter what sort of camera you have, or how specialist you are in photography.

The best way to do this is to take your photo at the subject’s eye level. Sharpness is a must for any wildlife photograph that is going to be accepted or published. You should always consider the background in a wildlife photo. National park can boast of Wildlife animals like Jackals, Leopards, Tigers, Jungle cats, Wild boar, Chinkara just to mention a few. If the eyes in your wildlife photo are sharp and clear, the photo will probably work. Spend time in the right places for wildlife photography.

Taking photographs at eye level will also produce good superiority cherished photos of pets or wildlife. Simply get as close to the subject as possible and zoom in with your largest lens. Be patient when taking your wildlife photos. Capture your subject in the best possible light.

February 4, 2012 Posted by | Art | , , , , | Leave a comment

Starting Art of Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating strong images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive stuff such as photographic film. The process of creating photographs is called photography. Photography is used by all to conserve memories of good times, sending messages, telling stories, and capturing special unforgettable moments. Photography is an inspiring ability outline that comprises more than simply depiction, scenery or glamour taking pictures.

Photography may be of two types, Traditional photography and Digital photography. Photography with the hands of expert artist brings the subjects personality. Capturing images can be as natural as positioning the photographic camera, clicking and desiring impressive turns out. Photography is also a common part of journalism and media. The most alluring feature of photography as a career choice is that you can conveniently chase field of your interest and choose from: fashion photography, wild life photography, nature photography, forensic photography, travel photography, sports photography, underwater photography, wedding photography and many other kinds of photography. Photojournalism contains images are often influential pictures with information.

Beauty Photography is to understand the role model in a astounding brightness s the name entails. Aerial Photography might be employed for reviewing or constructing, to seize birds or climate on movie or for armed forces intentions. Creative photography can hold a broad selection of subject matters. Marriage photography is a combination of various styles of taking photographs. Photography is no diverse than cave painting, we all want to tell our story, some want to record that story for others who missed out.

February 3, 2012 Posted by | Art | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Web Template Design

Template designing plays a major role for the business growth over the Internet. Using web template design has becoming quite popular in today’s context when organizations have realizing the value of web presence for the growth of their business across the globe. Before we move further, it is better to know in brief about the website template design. Web template is a framework for a website containing the code for web pages, graphic elements and a styling template.

For the growth of business, one can spend a lot of money in other promotional techniques. Website template is the most suitable way to feature your opinions online. Web designs, template can be used in making effective presentations and in slide shows to give you the best of everything. It is good practise to make the templates modular rather than having page templates containing all the code for each page. Template making had become a good business, giving business houses to generate ample profit and spread their philosophy.

Ask a company to design a template that is easy to use and gives you the maximum advantage. With a customized designing, you can easily insert your logo, some slogans, labels and texts, and are ready to go to earn the confidence of the people.

Website will be defined by a set of templates.

Start of the page template with PHP code to set the value of variables that are used by the other templates such as the header template. Then assemble the page by including the required templates and inserting the content.

Create a new page template for each page of the site. But this is fine since we are not duplicating the header, footer and sidebar.

Store content in a database and use a page ID to identify which page content to insert.

Creat a content management system (CMS).

Create master page templates that pull in the templates from the current theme.

February 2, 2012 Posted by | Designs | , , , | Leave a comment

Brochure Design to Grip Attention

Brochures are used to design for the endorsement of locations, events, hotels, products and services. Brochures are very adaptable and they can be used in different ways. Brochure has materialized as an effective online marketing tool that helps to put across the organizational value or principle to both the obtainable as well as potential clients. To achieve a distinct position in the marketplace, consider hiring the bespoke services of a reputed brochure design company and get a newly defined corporate uniqueness for your online business enterprise.

Brochure designs have huge potential when comes to attracting audience awareness whether online or through physical attendance. Brochures that attract are most effective when they are designed to struck an emotional cord and illicit an emotional response from the customers. Brochures also contain a call to exploit telling your customer to contact you by phone or visit your Web site. Brochure typically uses bold headlines, distinct visuals, a call to action on the readers part, and can include a coupon or incentive to visit your business.

Brochure designers can outline crisp and colorful designs in a very little time with the help of the latest printing technologies printers. There are several features of brochure design like the colors to be used, different styles of layouts including tri-fold brochure design, flyers, two-fold brochures India, etc, graphics and images, the website content and so on. The quality of the design can be improved further by including graphics that offers a commercial look to it. Brochure design needs to be taken care of is its structure, the assortment of words and it should look professional and infuse its deep meaning.

Brochures are taken as the confirmations of the company’s genuine contributions and trusted services which it promises. Brochure Design Company can expediently fulfill all your brochure designing needs.

January 31, 2012 Posted by | Art, Designs | , , , | Leave a comment

Importance of a Graphic Design

Graphic design is a creative process most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience. Graphic designing is nothing but it is h environment around us. There are different aspects of graphic design and different principals that make up graphic design. It is the work of strong imagination and strong power of fantasy.

There are fundamentally thousands of websites in the worldwide web and quite a few are in point of fact getting added to the domain as each second passes. The term graphic designing was first discovered by William Addison Dwiggins in the year 1922. Graphic design often refers to both the process by which the communication is created and the products which are generated. Web design is the most common form of graphic design these days. But it’s a high-paying and popular job.

Graphic designers are, first of all, designers who work with images, words and media. The process of graphic design enhances the look of a layout, is attractive to viewers, simplifies the message and helps communicate a message effectively. As simple it may seem, it is lot of hard work. Graphical elements facilitate expression of thought to visualization, and snatches attention of the watcher pleasing and mesmerizing their eyes.

On the whole online audience expects a good website layout, this is to a certain extent main because this usually determines the interest of the site audience in the site. There are many software packages like Macromedia, Adobe, Corel Draw, and Paint Shop that aid in high quality and complexity of graphic design. Today, Graphic design is practiced in various fields of media, distributing its effective message through logos, graphics, signs, brochures, posters, and other type of visual elements.

The growth of the professional graphic design industry has grown in parallel with the rise of consumerism. Graphic design whether it is a creating page layout for a webpage or creating a logo for a business is always aimed as a marketing tool. Graphic Designing is a field which is gradually encompassing various arenas like web designing, advertising firms, corporate houses.

January 30, 2012 Posted by | Art, Designs | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Landscape Art How to Create Landscape Painting

Landscape paintings, as the term suggests, refers to painting or particular scenarios. Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. Landscape painting captures more than trees, horizons, seas and mountains. The paintings are reflections of the skies, seas, rivers, sun, moon and greeneries on the canvas. One of the earliest and traditional painting forms, landscape paintings touch the heart of the modern art lovers with all their purity, naturalness and aestheticism.

A great landscape painting will enhance your artist capabilities. Such painting requires that you move your hand at a pace, know when to clean your brush as well. Paint can be thick as a tube or it can be thinned with water, you should know when to use thick and thin. The serenity of a Scottish dawn, or the violence of a heaving sea, carries the observer in moments of reflection to the plane of emotion with which it is associated: awe, wonder, beauty.

The paintings gained prominence with the emergence of Renaissance Art. In the modern and postmodern landscapes nature is synchronized with human psychologies and complexities of life. The various facets of nature resemble the moods of human beings in manifolds.

Your goal with the landscape painting is to dramatically capture the feel of the landscape, not to show everything in it. Landscape paintings have several classifications. The landscape painting, inside, is capturing the beauty of things, non-living in particular. The images of urban landscapes, industrialized cities, towns and streets are carved in cityscapes and hardscapes. The aerial landscapes offer an aerial view of the objects in the ground. A great landscape painting will enhance your artist capabilities.

January 30, 2012 Posted by | Art, Designs | , , , , , , | Leave a comment