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Designed Myth of a Four Year University

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 […]

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The Era of Post-Pop: No Such Thing As a Has-Been

Sunday, September 5, 2010

My friend listens to a very niche type of music, I call it “Post-Pop”. Post-pop bands are a re-undergrounding of what once was. The sunken Atlantis. One-hit-wonders like Chumbawamba, Bare Naked Ladies, or Live had one famous album and then lost traction. My friend listens to their albums that was released after their famous one. […]

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Design the Language In Your Mind to Be More Creative

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 […]

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Designers’ Role

Monday, August 23, 2010

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 […]

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Designers Never Retire

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

When I was 14, I woke one one morning and decided to live a 100 more years. Since I’ve already decided my year-of-death, deciding on the length of my career was even easier. I’m designing until I’m 85 years old, that gives me a total of 65 years of design time, 10 of which I’ve […]

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