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NPC Floral Design School

NPC Floral Design School. October 15, 2011. Flowers, the universal language of Beauty and Love. Welcome to our world of. Beauty Grace Creativity Hospitality Fellowship. How is beauty defined?.

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NPC Floral Design School

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  1. NPC Floral Design School October 15, 2011

  2. Flowers, the universal language of Beauty and Love

  3. Welcome to our world of • Beauty • Grace • Creativity • Hospitality • Fellowship

  4. How is beautydefined? • the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), • a meaningful design or pattern

  5. How is beauty defined by other culture? Greek Japanese • define beauty from a rational point of view; • "we are all geometers", attracted to men with better proportion and symmetry • Plato - beautiful objects incorporated proportion,harmony, and unity among their parts. • Aristotle -the universal elements of beauty were order,symmetry, and definiteness • Perfectionist of the west • Wabi-sabi (侘寂) • "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". • nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect • Wabi = rustic simplicity • Sabi = beauty or serenity • wisdom in natural simplicity

  6. Acropolis of Athens Many of the proportions of the Parthenon are alleged to exhibit the golden ratio.

  7. The Golden Ratios • Fiboniccinumbers (named after Leonardo Fibonicciof Pisa) • 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55……… • Ratio of neighboring numbers is • 1 to 1.618, 3:5, 5:8, 8:13 most aesthetically pleasing proportion, in art, architecture & human form • Golden Ration 1:1.618, 3:5, 5:8, 8:13

  8. Fiboniccisequences appear in nature Yellow Chamomile head showing the arrangement of 21 (blue) and 13 (aqua) spirals

  9. Principles and Elements of Design • Principles of Design Fundamental guidelines to aesthetic design • Elements of Design The components or ingredients of design

  10. Design Principles • Proportion • Scale • Balance • Harmony • Unity • Focal Point • Rhythm

  11. Elements of Design • Form • Lines • Size • Space • Color • Texture

  12. Understanding and Applying the Design Elements Each design has two components • Structural elements = line + form (+ space, size, and pattern) • Chromatic elements = color + texture

  13. Examples of proportion

  14. Balance

  15. Form Round Flowers Line Flowers Spray Flowers

  16. How to forms are used

  17. Color

  18. How Can I Participate in NPC • Join the Conditioning Team – Thursday mornings • Join the Designing Team – Saturday mornings • Join the Break Down Team – Monday afternoons or evenings • Join the Special Group Projects Team • Christmas – put up special decorations for sanctuary and church campus • Easter – create and maintain Easter garden

  19. Participants of a previous workshop Previous Workshop participants

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