A guide to the Golden Ratio for Designers
Contributed By
John Moorhead
Career Technical Education Framework for California Public Schools
- BCT.KP.10.3 Construct projects and products specific to the Building and Construction Trades sector requirements and expectations.
- BCT.PS.A.A1.5 Apply design elements: shapes, textures, lines, and colors to create functional and attractive cabinets, furniture, and millwork.
- BCT.PS.A.A1.6 Apply principles of design, harmony, repetitions, balance, and proportion to create functional and attractive cabinets, furniture, and millwork.
- BCT.PS.A.A1.8 Sketch a project using manual drawing techniques.
A guide to the Golden Ratio for Designers
This website offers this abstract on how the golden ratio, Fibonacci numbers, and the golden mean are interlinked and form a solid foundation for design. Even our "inner geek" might have a hard time thinking of a mathematical formula as the basis for physical beauty, but the ancients were onto something. What do a flat screen, the Parthenon, and the spiral of petals in a rose have in common? Plenty of meat on the bone here!