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These awards are the result of our quality, excellence, irreverence and permanent dissatisfaction, which allow us to exceed the expectations of our customers with the highly differentiating solutions we built for each project. Even at such a late hour, we contacted our customer to congratulate on this landmark event.
Gold in European competition is a reach award! This award for our team is a further proof that we go in the right direction, that design in Ukraine is worth of high international estimates. This project was a full digital rebrand for the restaurant chain of The client was wonderful in trusting our creative decisions on this project and winning this award really helped validate the trust the client had in us. We are very happy about it and we are planning on creating more and more projects like that!
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Receiving an award for this piece is a testament for me to how important collaboration is in the creative industries and what is possible when we support each other and work as one. That is why it gives us so much of joy and sense of achievement to be recognized and assures us that our efforts of providing nothing but the best to our clients are headed in the right direction. Our team has been consistently pushing the envelope and taking bigger creative risks this past year, and to be recognized by some of the greats in our industry is so rewarding.
Winning Muse Creative Awards tells us that we have gone beyond the expected and created something that is worthy of wider recognition. This is very gratifying. Winning meant so much to me. It is lovely receiving some recognition and it makes me feel stronger to keep going. We look forward to submitting in It's all in the experience.
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What a great asset to share with clients! The Winner of the All Design of the Year Award will receive the coveted Muse trophy and be highlighted on the main page of the Muse website and published in all our social media platforms throughout the coming year. The Special Edition Muse Awards statuette is exclusively and individually crafted to perfection, honoring all winners who missed the chance to collect the previous edition. It was not until Hellenistic times that the following systematic set of functions was assigned to them, and even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes: Calliope epic poetry , Clio history , Euterpe flutes and lyric poetry , Thalia comedy and pastoral poetry , Melpomene tragedy , Terpsichore dance , Erato love poetry , Polyhymnia sacred poetry , and Urania astronomy.
Aoide "song" or "tune" , Melete "practice" or "occasion" , and Mneme "memory". In Delphi three Muses were worshiped as well, but with other names: Nete , Mese , and Hypate , which are assigned as the names of the three cords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively, later they were called Cephisso , Apollonis , and Borysthenis , names which characterize them as daughters of Apollo. In a later tradition, a set of four Muses were recognized: One of the people frequently associated with the Muses was Pierus.
According to Hesiod 's Theogony seventh century BC , they were daughters of Zeus , king of the gods, and Mnemosyne , Titan goddess of memory. For Alcman and Mimnermus , they were even more primordial , springing from the early deities Ouranos and Gaia. Gaia is Mother Earth , an early mother goddess who was worshipped at Delphi from prehistoric times, long before the site was rededicated to Apollo, possibly indicating a transfer to association with him after that time.
Sometimes the Muses are referred to as water nymphs , associated with the springs of Helicon and with Pieris. It was said that the winged horse Pegasus touched his hooves to the ground on Helicon, causing four sacred springs to burst forth, from which the Muses were born. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus , son of Calliope , and buried them in Leivithra.
In a later myth, Thamyris challenged them to a singing contest.
They won and punished Thamyris by blinding him and robbing him of his singing ability. According to a myth from Ovid 's Metamorphoses —alluding to the connection of Pieria with the Muses— Pierus , king of Macedon , had nine daughters he named after the nine Muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses. He thus challenged the Muses to a match, resulting in his daughters, the Pierides , being turned into chattering magpies for their presumption.
Pausanias records a tradition of two generations of Muses; the first are the daughters of Ouranos and Gaia, the second of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
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Another, rarer genealogy is that they are daughters of Harmonia the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares , which contradicts the myth in which they were dancing at the wedding of Harmonia and Cadmus. The Muses had several temples and shrines in ancient Greece, their two main cult centres being Mount Helikon in Boiotia and Pieria in Makedonia. In Renaissance and Neoclassical art, the dissemination of emblem books such as Cesare Ripa 's Iconologia and many further editions helped standardize the depiction of the Muses in sculpture and painting, so they could be distinguished by certain props.
These props, or emblems , became readily identifiable by the viewer, enabling one immediately to recognize the Muse and the art with which she had become associated. Here again, Calliope epic poetry carries a writing tablet; Clio history carries a scroll and books; Euterpe song and elegiac poetry carries a flute, the aulos ; Erato lyric poetry is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses; Melpomene tragedy is often seen with a tragic mask; Polyhymnia sacred poetry is often seen with a pensive expression; Terpsichore choral dance and song is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; Thalia comedy is often seen with a comic mask; and Urania astronomy carries a pair of compasses and the celestial globe.
Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: According to Pindar , to "carry a mousa " is "to excel in the arts". The word derives from the Indo-European root men- , which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne and mania , English "mind", "mental" and "monitor", Sanskrit mantra and Avestan Mazda.
The Muses, therefore, were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: In the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books scrolls , this included nearly all of learning. The first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales , took the form of dactylic hexameters , as did many works of pre-Socratic philosophy. Both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike. For poet and "law-giver" Solon , [24] the Muses were "the key to the good life"; since they brought both prosperity and friendship.
Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals each year. He believed that the Muses would help inspire people to do their best. Ancient authors and their imitators invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation occurs near the beginning of their work.
It asks for help or inspiration from the Muses, or simply invites the Muse to sing directly through the author.