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unusual facts about Game Research/Design


Games Research

Game Research/Design - a board wargame publisher formed in 1985, the publisher of the Europa series


Alfred Wolcott Gibbs

He was instrumental in the design of a number of important PRR locomotive classes, including the E6 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type, the K4s 4-6-2 "Pacific" type, and the L1s 2-8-2 "Mikado" type.

Anwar Shemza

Tazveer’s design, featuring King Wenceslas, was chosen by eight professional stamp designers from 5,000 entries in a Blue Peter competition.

ARCH Academy of Design

These courses at Arch are affiliated and duly recognized by the University of Rajasthan and are offered as add-on courses to the Design course streams, an added incentive to get a recognized degree along with their Design diplomas and degrees.

Architecture of Aberdeen

Constructed in 1892, to a design by open competition winner Alexander Brown, the Central Library, which was opened by its benefactor Andrew Carnegie, stands at the west end of the terrace.

Celestino Piatti

In 1971 Piatti was commissioned by the American Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to design a 39" x 45" poster to promote the closed circuit viewing at the State Armoury in Harlem of the March 8 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden.

Cheryl Heller

She is an advisor to Design for the Other 90%, an NGO led by Paul Polak, and helped to create a related exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

Christine Glanville

In addition to her primary role of lead puppet operator, Glanville was also often responsible for the design and construction of the puppets themselves; for Thunderbirds (1965–66), she sculpted the marionettes of Scott Tracy, Alan Tracy, and Tin-Tin Kyrano.

Coins of the South African pound

The obverse continued the previous design by T. Humphrey Paget and the reverse the previous designs by George Kruger Gray.

Dar es Salaam commuter rail

RAHCO, the holding company of TRL, issued a tender in September 2013 inviting bids for feasibility studies and the design of new railway lines from its central station to four destinations: Luguruni (Morogoro Road), Chamazi (Kilwa Road), Pugu (via Julius Nyerere International Airport) and Kerenge.

Derek Bellotti

Bellotti is currently managing director of Kingfisher Print and Design, a print firm based in Dartington.

Design layout record

A design layout record (DLR) or circuit layout record (CLR) is used in the telecommunication industry to describe the detailed design path of a completed circuit, including all equipment and network components from one end of the circuit to the other.

Deutz Suspension Bridge

It reportedly later served as inspiration for American bridge engineers and was specifically cited as a design influence on the Three Sisters bridges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as well as for the Kiyosu Bridge on the Sumida River in Tokyo.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

Emergency Shipbuilding program

All the ships to be built were collectively called the Ocean class and to be of an existing British design for 5-hatch cargo ships of about 10,000 tons' load displacement and 11 knots' service speed using obsolete, but readily available, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine and coal-fired Scotch-type fire tube boilers.

Expo '70

Director Douglas Trumbull said that the design of the space freighter Valley Forge in the 1971 science fiction drama Silent Running was inspired by the Landmark Tower.

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

Fundus photography

Since the instruments are complex in design and difficult to manufacture to clinical standards, only a few manufacturers exist: Topcon, Zeiss, Canon, Nidek, Kowa, CSO and CenterVue.

Ghost Box Music

Releases on the label (currently encompassing The Focus Group, Eric Zann, Belbury Poly, Roj, Pye Corner Audio and The Advisory Circle, and a rerelease of a Mount Vernon Arts Lab album) tend to share a common design aesthetic - all record covers so far have been by Julian House, with an acknowledged debt to the iconic design of sixties Penguin Books paperbacks.

Halford Special

The early racing history of chassis number 1916 is not fully documented but what is certain is that it was crashed in 1924 and Major Frank Halford bought the chassis and installed an engine of his own design and built a new two-seater body for the car.

HM Prison Maidstone

Constructed using Kentish Ragstone from a local quarry, the original design of the prison was intended to house 552 prisoners, including 62 female inmates.

John Francis Bentley

After deciding on a Byzantine Revival design, Bentley travelled to Italy to study some of the great early Byzantine-influenced cathedrals, such as St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Leisurama house

The precursor to the final design was shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, which provoked the noted Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Little Gloomy

Due to the design of the central character and association through the Slave Labor Graphics publishing imprint, Little Gloomy is often labeled specifically as a goth related comic.

Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53

The Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53 was an Italian experimental helicopter designed by Carlo Lualdi around a Hiller-designed rotor system and a gyro stabiliser of his own design.

Meaningful play

In Rules of Play, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman introduce meaningful play as the goal of successful game design.

Ming Cho Lee

Lee's first Broadway play as Scenic Designer was "The Moon Besieged" in 1962; he went on to design the sets for over 20 Broadway shows, including Mother Courage and Her Children, King Lear, The Glass Menagerie, The Shadow Box, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Museo Picasso Málaga

Gluckman's firm received a 2005 Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for the project.

New Jersey Route 66

The need for this widening is due to the need to handle traffic going to Asbury Park in the summer months as well as an evacuation route for the coastal regions of Monmouth County, and the poor design of the current roadway, which lacks turning lanes and facilities for bicycles and pedestrians.

Niels Petersen House

Architect James Creighton was commissioned by Petersen to design the new two-story home to be constructed at Petersen’s ranch south of town.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

Olli

Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok from design company John Doe designed Olli from the basic shape of a soccer ball.

Retro Productions

Their sixth nomination that year was for Outstanding Costume Design (Rebecca Cunningham) for their production of What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney.

Richard Albert

Richard L. Albert, president of the motion picture advertising agency Design Projects, Inc.

Roderick Stephens

He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.

Ruby Ross Wood

After moving to New York City and later Boston in the early 1900s and using the byline Ruby Ross Goodnow (her first married name), she wrote fiction, poetry, and articles about interior design for The Delineator, a popular women's magazine, where her editor was Theodore Dreiser.

Sherwood C. Spring

His technical assignments have included software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and Flight Simulation Laboratory; vehicle and satellite integration at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for STS-5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Astronaut Office EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) expert; and Space Station construction, EVA maintenance, and design.

Sinan Al Shabibi

On February 2, 2012 Zaha Hadid joined Dr Sinan Al‐Shabibi at a ceremony in London to sign the agreement between the Central Bank of Iraq and Zaha Hadid Architects for the design stages of the new CBI Headquarters building.

SNECMA Atar 101

By September the team were housed at the Dornier factory at Rickenbach near Lindau on Lake Constance and had largely completed design of the ATAR 101 by October 1945.

Stopping sight distance

The design standards of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) allow 1.5 seconds for perception time and 1.0 second for reaction time.

Susumu Matsushita

Susumu Matsushita (松下進 Matsushita Susumu, born February 6, 1950 in Fussa, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist known for his unique American comic–influenced design.

TallyGenicom

Tally AG was founded in 1948 by Philip Renshaw, focusing on design, development, manufacturing, distribution and servicing of printers for high-volume industrial and business applications.

Ted LeFevre

His assistant design work includes ten international and touring companies of Beauty and the Beast, two new musicals at Goodspeed Opera, and both A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and Carnevale at Radio City for Tony Walton.

The Pointer

Although often cited as the animated debut of Mickey's modern character design, this actually occurred five months earlier in Mickey's Surprise Party.

TIA-569-B

In particular, the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), BICSI, a Telecommunications Association, and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) will find this Standard closely aligned with their goals for good building design and construction.

United States Playing Card Company

Introduced in 1927 in commemoration of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, Aviator playing cards feature a bordered, monotone back design of predominantly circles.

Virginia College

ECA also owns Virginia College Online, which offers distance education academic programs via the Internet; Golf Academy of America; Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, offering degrees in the culinary arts; and Ecotech Institute, offering degrees in fields of renewable energy, sustainable design, and energy efficiency.

VIU-55 Munja

VTI has done the conceptual design of the Munja general-purpose engineer vehicle and the Čačak-based Overhaul Depot has built the vehicle.

Volvelle

The rock band Led Zeppelin employed a volvelle in the sleeve design for the album Led Zeppelin III (1970).

Well-formed

Well-formed element, an element in webpage design; see also well-formed XML

Xgrid

Zilla won the national ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award (Science Category) in 1991 for ease of use and good design.


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