Sentences with phrase «utilitarian function»

Don't assume your customers look at a collar and lead for mere utilitarian function.

Canadian Tire has launched a new app for holders of its cross-branded Mastercard that blends utilitarian functions like everyday mobile banking payments with loyalty badges and promotional offers.

Selecting them for their capacity to contain and reflect stories, like personal and collective identities, Magor reveals a resonance that goes beyond their mere utilitarian function through transformations and shifts.

As such, this exhibition proposes the idea of a waster as the spark for the creative act, beyond its traditionally utilitarian function.

The suspension of meaning through a liminality (threshold) of expectation is of particular relevance to understanding Boursier - Mougenot, since he intends his objects to always remain substantially what they are as objects»» even as their former utilitarian functions have been stripped away, or redirected to other creative ends and purposes.

The structures are transformed from their common utilitarian function of storing road salt, burning wood chips or treating waste water into a menagerie of mysterious anthropomorphic characters that inhabit a twilight world where imagination and abstraction freely combine.

Rarely do buildings serving such utilitarian functions get much architecture, usually they are banal boxes turned out by engineering firms.

A «useful article» is an article having an intrinsic utilitarian function that is not merely to portray the appearance of the article or to convey information.

These altcoins are tokens that serve specific utilitarian functions on a decentralized app or platform.

Initially, it was easy to see that the most severe cases, which involved pain and loss of utilitarian function, were paralleled by a radiographically demonstrated deterioration of the articulating surfaces in the ball - and - socket hip joint.

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Strap or belt not only fulfills a utilitarian function, but has come to define a dress code.

Just like the Range Rover Evoque gave the Range Rover brand a stylish appeal, the DC 100 should give the utilitarian function based Land Rover brand some oomph.

And as a poster, a book cover has a specific, utilitarian function to perform — to catch the reader's eye.

As a result, the definition of the companion animal breed is a breed whose members can not perform any utilitarian function for themselves or their human owners — they're simply too weak to pull their own weight anymore — and they also suffer from a much wider array of painful maladies than their larger cousins; painful and unnatural medical problems like the tendency of certain joints like knees and hips to pop out of their sockets far too easily, among many others.

Don't assume customers look at a collar and lead simply for utilitarian function — it's got to look good on the dog.

Some objects retain a trace of the original human touch or utilitarian function, whereas others are so smeared with paint, dirt and hair that their origin is maskedduring the creative process.

Their mechanical coolness that stems from the steel, their «ready - made» colors and texture give them a presence that transcends their utilitarian function.

In aiming to combine vanity with pragmatism, Aujla uses materials that are made for utilitarian function but which also have aesthetic value.

In An Uneven Floor, he took a common household item — carpet — and subverted its utilitarian functions, like comfort and stability.

Fixtures of the home, such as garden hoses and fences, break from their utilitarian functions to wilt, slither, and pose in the gallery space.

For many of us, we assume that the laundry room only has a utilitarian function; therefore we forget it should be a welcoming room that we don't mind spending time in.