Page spread from Thomas Weil’s New Grammar of Ornament. Rather than categorize ornamental patterns by region, Weil’s New Grammar offers a taxonomy of forms: minimal, geometric, and floral. And ...

Home Expressions, Inc. (CAFC, Sept. 12, 2019)—which already has become a rather infamous design patent case—the claims at issue recited an "ornamental design for a pattern for a chair," while ...

, No. 2018-2214, (Fed. Cir. Sept. 12, 2019), Curver Luxembourg, SARL (Curver) asserted U.S. Design Patent No. D677,946 (’946 patent), entitled “Pattern for a Chair” and claimed an ...

To understand how ornaments such as spines form, we must examine the forces produced during shell growth. The shell secretion process revolves around an interesting mechanical system.

The ornamental pattern of the wafer itself, however, is the Oreo's visual signature. Stamped out by brass rollers passing over sheets of chocolate dough, ...

Russian designers are returning to their roots. Anastasia Romantsova, Vyacheslav Zaitsev and Ulyana Sergeenko create haute couture “a la Rus” by placing traditional ornamental patterns ...