Inspiration of Egyptian Postage Stamps in the design of printed one-piece Touristic Upholstery Fabrics | ||||
| International Design Journal | ||||
| Article 22, Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 14, April 2015, Page 491-501 PDF (629.57 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/idj.2015.101790 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hoda Ahmed Ragab Abdel Rahman; Sahar Ahmed Ibrahim Mansour | ||||
| Assistant Professor, Department of Textile Printing, Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The tourism product, with its formal content and its cultural and historical content, is considered a civilizational cultural message loaded with cultural and humanistic intellectual contents that reach the tourist as a national message that should be cared for and delivered with high quality. His visit to the ancient places in Egypt. We have noted that the postage stamp carries artistic values for the cultural, historical and popular momentum of any country, which encouraged countries to use popular images and symbols with their stamps in search of distinction and historical and cultural dazzling, and since the issuance of postage stamps, Egypt has taken from the subjects depicted on it a cultural record of all the great events throughout its history, It is also a record of the country's accomplishments and definition of its successive civilizations and its historical and cultural glories and its bright present because its design includes easy-to-understand international symbols and transcends linguistic barriers, making it the country's greatest ambassador as it travels the postage stamp across the globe and is affixed to letters, as it is a powerful weapon to highlight the civilization of the country and its tourist sites, which achieves Through the goal for which it was designed. Thus the research question came, can designs be provided for printed one-piece furnishings so that the Egyptian postage stamp is the main component of the design? Hence, the aim of the research was to take advantage of the postage stamp in presenting printed designs of one piece for the fabrics of tourist furnishings. One of the most important results of the research is a set of proposed designs suitable for printing single-piece tourism furniture upholstery and inspired by the subjects depicted on Egyptian postage stamps that express historical, political, social, sports, and scientific discoveries in different eras. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Egyptian Postage stamp One; piece Design Tourist upholstery fabrics Cultural communication | ||||
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