The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

The golden ratio is an almost mythical number that you may have heard of in various areas of architecture or design. For example, many claim the ancient Greek Parthenon has numerous examples of the ...

Let's find out exactly what is it! The golden ratio. Some say it’s the most mythical number in the universe. Others say it underlies everything from nature’s patterns to beauty in art and design. But, ...

It’s bullshit. The golden ratio’s aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don’t use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance. There’s also no ...

Senior thesis completed at Trinity College for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Abstract The Golden Proportion is the place where a line is divided in such a way that the ratio of the ...

The outer reaches of math are home to a slew of mystic numbers, but few share the ethereal weightiness of the Golden Ratio, an object of scientific and artistic fascination throughout the ages.

The Golden Ratio might have no bearing on aesthetics, but Peng Wang’s Fibonacci Shelf is still one sweet piece of design. The Golden Ratio might be design’s biggest myth, but that’s not to say that it ...