INTRODUCTION: Thallium is a heavy metal that is used in the manufacture of electronic components, optical lenses, semiconductor materials, alloys, gamma radiation detection equipment, imitation jewelry, artist's paints, low temperature thermometers, and green fireworks. Cigarette smoking is also a source of thallium. After absorption, it gets accumulated in liver and kidney and causes renal and...

Ubiquitous computing technologies are defining an emerging cultural fabric that is becoming interwoven into everyday life and giving form to ‘digital culture’, through which human meaning and communication derives from the potentials of such technologies. As the pervasive and ambient computing agendas move forward, the possible augmentation of both physical space and the human body with small l...

The purpose: to analyze the specifics of Dali's creative search for figurative solutions in jewelry; present a project jewelry based on works S. Dali.
 Methodology. Historical-typological, analytical, comparative, iconographic methods were applied; during analysis Dali’s works, formal and figurative-stylistic applied.
 Results. heritage art its influence modern masters are analyzed. t...

Abstract This article is dedicated to study of the jewelry craft Staraya Ryazan’. It has been prepared for 200th anniversary discovery first hoard there (1822), which marked beginning ancient Russian towns, most important area in science antiquities. The marks individual style a craftsman who served representatives princely family (interpretation images animals, birds, anthropomorphic figures, ...