While working on the carriages, Italian immigrants began to paint them with simple lines and decorative elements.

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Once he's come up with some simple lines on the keyboard, Tricky, whose real name is Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, continues to explore them until he finds a form he can use.

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Try Me Bicycle makes gorgeous, reflective music, with simple piano and guitar lines that drift blissfully on Summery breezes.

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These are mostly ritual objects, architectural carvings and representations of ancestors made for veneration, often featuring the clean, simple lines we now readily associate with modernism, another of Mr. Jaffe's interests.

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Keep product lines simple, limited and differentiated with clear value propositions for each.

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With one slight exception, perhaps of at least curiosity interest to Mathematica aficionados: he suggested that cells in Mathematica notebook documents (now CDFs) should be indicated not by simple vertical lines but instead by brackets with little serifs at their ends.

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Lines like that, though, are usually associated with simple, sensationalized ideas about urban violence.

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