#adolf zeising

[stavrosmartinos]

Adolf Zeising, 1854.

[luxorandfinch]

Shop by Shape: Phi and the Golden ratio

Shop by Shape: Phi and the Golden ratio

Being passionate about shape, fit and sizing often leads me to do research that seems unrelated to fit. But I believe to understand one thing fully, as an expert, you need to know a little bit about everything surrounding that topic. As a stylist I pay a lot of attention to body proportions, heights and ratios. It helps me determine people shapes better. I also pay a lot of attention to peoples…

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[caalvara]

The nautilus shell and sunflower grow in an identical constant ratio called the golden mean, the golden section or the divine proportion, represented by the Greek character phi φ. This proportion is related closely to the Fibonacci numbers 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, where you add the last two numbers to get the next.

Adolf Zeising (1810 – 1876) identified this ratio in various forms of growth patterns in branches, leaves, skeletons and even crystals. The Golden Mean represented for the German intellectual  "the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical; which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form."

Just another reason why I love sunflowers :)

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