Wednesday, December 8, 2010
I created this image for a Sustainability competition. We all have dreams, including future generations. Save the world and give us a chance to follow them The poster text reads: “Live sustainably so all dreams left to dream, can be. It took thousands of years of dreaming to fly. Oh what freedom it is to […]
Monday, September 27, 2010
I looked at the “T” in T-Shaped Designer under a microscope and the vertical is actually a lot more complex. Though the name is simplified to a marketable catch-phrase, it looks more like the image below: The misunderstanding of the T-Shaped Designer (specialization + generalist knowledge/experience/outlook) is explained in real-world terms in much more detail […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
College spreads your wings and then shoves you out of the nest into the working-world. You think you’re ready, so you enthusiastically pump your fists into the air, hum “I believe I can fly!”, and plummet towards the ground of the professional world. When you jump, you actually DO believe that you can fly. This […]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
How can you know your users and customers if you don’t know yourself? If you don’t first define yourself, your research analysis is just mistranslated data. To design a solution for someone else means to truly understand who they are. But that’s impossible to do without knowing who you are, because only then can you […]
Isn’t it so easy to use the words “product designer” to explain to our mothers and our left-brain-business partners about what an industrial designer does? But alas, it may be easy, but it does an injustice to the profession. “Product” implies anything you can sell, like electronics, software, service, cocaine. “Product design” is not befitting […]
Saturday, August 28, 2010
When Buckminster Fuller was 32 he started the practice of consciously choosing every word he used. The deliberate analysis of each word seemed to free him from the cultural boundaries created by the limitations of language. It allowed him to rethink and reanalyze common words and change it’s use to effectively communicate his ideas. If […]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
In response to Don Norman’s Article Hi Mr. Norman, Your article led me to your recent piece on the research-practice gap and as a practicing “translational developer”, your focus on that gap is spot-on crucial. Coincidentally, I just wrote a quick piece on what I was calling the Translation of Abstraction with an example project […]
I made a comment on Design Observer on “Design Loves a Depression” in 2009 which got reposted on the furniture society‘s website with the editor of Dwell. Looking back, I’m still waiting for my American designer hero. I hope that some of the writing in this blog can help you become my American design hero.
Design takes you to some place better than a negative world of problems and take you to a world of happiness. Industrial designers do not solve problems though we sometimes solve annoyances. In the name of business and monetary success, industrial designers have made prolific statements that we are problem-solvers even though the only real […]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Bush. War. Recession. What a shitty fucking decade. When I saw those planes on the news, flying in New York. I vomitted. I was sick. Then I was reminded the dark side of humanity for the next 8 years with the word “terrorism” beaten into me. 8 years of shit, then we spent the next […]
