Mood boards are a visual way of determining the appropriate ‘feel’ of a product or service. They are often used by designers to generate discussion with the project team about issues which are difficult to describe in writing or verbally, such as styles, forms, lifestyles, cultural trends or brand attributes.
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也许很少有单词能像typhoon 一样表明汉语、阿拉伯语、东印度语和希腊语的多国语言背景。 希腊单词typhon 既是风神的姓名又是意为“旋风，台风”的普通名词， 被借入到阿拉伯语（就象在中世纪时许多希腊语单词进入阿拉伯语一样，那时，阿拉伯人的学问保存了古典的风格，同时在把它传向欧洲时又有所扩充）。Tufan ，希腊语的阿拉伯语形式， 传入到了印度人使用的语言，11世纪时讲阿拉伯语的穆斯林入侵者在印度定居下来。这样，阿拉伯语单词的衍生，从印度语言进入英语（最早记载于1588年），并以如touffon 和 tufan 的形式出现于英语中， 最先特指印度的猛烈风暴。中国，另一个大帝国，给了我们风暴的另一个单词，这里指的是在中国附近洋面发生的飓风。汉语单词的广东语形式toi fung 同我们的阿拉伯语借用词相近， 最早以tuffoon 的形式于1699年载入英语。 各种形式合并在一起最后变成了typhoon
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories Read the rest of this entry »
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NINA (1)
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, English, German, French
Other Scripts: Нина (Russian)
Pronounced: NEE-na [key]
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Short form of names that end in nina. This name also coincides with the Spanish word ni?a meaning "little girl".
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" ：Quotation mark
/ ：Forward slash
\ ：Back slash
[] ：Brackets
: ：Colon
; ：Semicolon
| ：Vertical bar
< ：Less than sign
> ：Greater than sign
+ ：Plus sign
, ：Comma
? ：Question mark
* ：Asterisk
= ：Equal sign
. ：full stop
!： screamer
#： number sign / pond key