Was it routine site maintenance or censorship at FastCoDesign? Why delete reader comments? On April 13, 2015, FastCoDesign.com took a stand on design with an article by John Brownlee titled “The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth – The Golden Ratio is Total Nonsense in Design. Here’s Why.” (Find article here.) By the end of June 2015, the article had hundreds of comments from … [Read more...]

Is D for Design or Deception? In April 2015, FastCoDesign.com published an article by John Brownlee titled "The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth - The Golden Ratio is Total Nonsense in Design. Here's Why." (Find article here.) The article, unfortunately, is filled with bias and errors, but immediately ranked on the top page of Google results for searches on "Golden … [Read more...]

Welcome educators, teachers, parents and students to the Golden Ratio Academy page. The Golden Ratio appears not only in nature and the arts, but also in the Common Core Curriculum mathematics standards. This page is dedicated to educators, parents and students seeking the best, most accurate information on the golden ratio. You can return to this page by simply going to the … [Read more...]

The Divine Proportion of Renaissance Art is found in less than Divine circumstances. A recent photo of a fight in the Ukranian Parliament is generating interest because its photographic composition reflects the Divine Proportion used by Renaissance artists, and many artists since. The classic composition of the photo was apparently first noticed by Manzil Lajura, who … [Read more...]

Elvis Presley, Celine Dion, Penn & Teller, the Rat Pack and many others have found their way to Las Vegas. Now Leonardo Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio are headlining. Is it a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," or one more crazy Las Vegas movie like "The Hangover" or "Last Vegas?" No, it's actually quite different from that, and quite a bit more educational and … [Read more...]

It's one of the most popular drum loops in music history. The "Amen break" is one of the most frequently used drum loop samples in music. It's only four bars long. It only lasts about six or seven seconds. Even so, this short sampled loop has been used in well over a thousand songs in a wide variety of music, including hip hop, techno, breakbeat and digital. That's pretty … [Read more...]

The Golden Ratio and Perfect Proportions for the Male Body Beauty in the the human form is closely correlated to, if not defined by, the golden ratio.  It should be no surprise then that the perfect proportions for the male body would also be related to the Golden Ratio.  I recently reviewed a new body-building and exercise program called "Adonis Golden Ratio."  I was … [Read more...]

If you're a past visitor to GoldenNumber.net you likely noticed the major change in its design in 2012.  One visitor wrote to say that they preferred the old design. Click on the images below to see the old look: If you really miss the old look you can visit it at the Archive Wayback Machine snapshots of GoldenNumber.net.  Here, however, are the reasons for the change in … [Read more...]