But not all symbols are so well recognized. In decorating, many common motifs, which show up repeatedly in fabrics, tiles and decorative arts, mean something. But I’ll bet my eyeballs that nine ...

With so much diversity, it must seem odd to think of advertising as having a common set of motifs -- symbols, images and themes. Actually, the motifs used in most advertisements are drawn from a ...

as the decorator Roberta Beverly Kennon simplified the flower and its emerging fruit to a repeating motif of outlines. Stylization was cutting edge expression in 1902, part of the development of ...

This was in 2018. Temel, now 24, has since inked hundreds of customers with deq motifs and symbols from the small one-room studio she opened in November 2021 in the Sur district in Diyarbakır’s ...

the swastika existed well before the Nazis co-opted the symbol to represent their monstrous regime. The design was—and continues to be—a common motif in a number of religions and cultures ...