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Design Principles
Balance; Rhythm: Repetition, Progression, Transition, Contrast; Emphasis; Scale + Proportion; Harmony: Unity . . . These are the composite features of Design Principles.
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Light
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. —Le Corbusier There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. —Edith Wharton Deemed to be the most vital Element of Design. Light is indeed the most important of Design Elements. Another related…
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Design Elements
It had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up…
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Design Judgment
Design Judgment. Kimberly B. Gray, Santa Fe, NM.
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Good Design
Good Design is the Art of Living. Kimberly B. Gray.
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Kimble Bumblebee
My Memoir of Short Stories from a Town&Country Girl is due to be published in 2021. Thus far, I will self-publish the collection. The book’s dedication is to my parents, Betty Nelson Masoner and Paul E. Masoner. Coming into this particular body, and being born of these particular parents, and in such a place, and…
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The Alchemy of 5/17
This morning I woke up thinking about my Dad. May well relate to Father’s Day and also to the 8th Anniversary of his passing, May 17. My Mom and I were at his bedside when he passed. He had been airlifted on my birthday to St. Luke’s in Kansas City, Missouri, a short distance from…
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Ghost Ranch III by Don Finkeldei
Ghost Ranch III is an acrylic rendering by Santa Fe Artist Don Finkeldei rendered on gessoed gator board, measuring 18″x22″. It is displayed right outside my bedroom door. I love it for two reasons, well three: The colors are glorious; the Chama River is one of my favorite places to fly fish; and Don is…
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Ralph Lauren and the Double RL Ranch
I’m not about fashion; I’m about living, and that’s been my whole career. And the clothes that I’ve designed and everything I’ve done is about life, and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they’d live, that’s what I do. –Ralph Lauren, Interview with Oprah Winfrey My admiration of…
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Kimberly B. Gray 