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Archive for May, 2007
What people must be thinking…
May 18, 2007Xtech talk: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
May 17, 2007Had a great time at Xtech on monday and basically tweaked my talk in light of the great things I had seen at Designmai. I talked about product design, how designers see objects and how that influences how the future “internet of things” will be designed.
So you can download the pdf of my slides here (2,1 MB). Enjoy!
Caved in to popular demand and have put it on Slideshare. You can still download it though : )
New: Vie the talk on blip.tv. Thanks Ian.
The difference between a U and an S
May 14, 2007I’m sitting in Berlin in a great café with a bear on the logo, on my way to Paris, not ready at all for my talk tomorrow, but have been terribly impressed by what I saw at the Designmai event. More on that later I promise.
I was also part of a panel, invited by my friend Goerg Bertsch, and lead by Mel Byars about “what do people hate about the world of design” with fellow panelists Sophie Lovell, German editor of Wallpaper* and V. Ragunath, architect and photographer.
Strange to find myself surrounded by people from my former life in industrial design as we found ourselves talking about design, designer/client relationships, how can the internet help designers, and the lack of theory in design to make for good critiques (in a more evolved way than “i publish what i like”) but not at all about what we hated about design and what can be improved. Too bad, that conversation needs to happen and be seriously directed and orchestrated.
Strange also because i now find myself talking in between 2 roles, too advanced in my understanding of the web and it’s dynamics for most product designers, not enough for most geeks. At least I understand them both and in Paris tomorrow I’ll try to talk to the geeks about why they should be talking to industrial designers. Maybe one day i’ll be invited to talk to designers about why they should care about what the hackers do with their soldering irons in their kitchens.
Quote of the day
May 14, 2007A Stuttgart-based painter asks me over a typical meat-based breakfast:
“But isn’t design supposed to be easy on the eyes?”
I didn’t know what to answer. Maybe she’s right.
links for 2007-05-12
May 12, 2007-
“And Apple’s designs in the Apple II era of the late 1970s moved computers out of labs and basements and into dens, living rooms, and bedrooms: places where people form emotional attachments to the things around them.”
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Interesting how bigger companies are getting into the “green” game.
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Interesting article on the “anti-faith” faith : )
links for 2007-05-11
May 11, 2007-
Second of Muki’s design competition with the subject of “re” which could be interesting to adress
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Funny but their recommenddations didn’t include “stop buying the latest crap you’ll be “recycling” in 2 months.
Quote of the day
May 11, 2007“If you really want your life to pass by in front of you like a movie, just travel, you can forget your life”
- Andy Warhol
A Day in the life of smart things: 2030
May 10, 2007
Tom Klinkowstein will be exhibiting a visual projection of what it will feel like in a connected world in 2030, a project he worked on with Irene Pereyra:
“The project, a large digital “diagrammatic narrative”, portrays a day in a designer’s life in the year 2030 and her relationship to the objects and environments around her (now infused with powerful communication, sensing and artificial intelligence capabilities). The project is tentatively scheduled to premiere at the Singapore International Design Festival in November 2007.”
After his well known piece about the life of a designer from 1990 to 2090, I can’t wait to see this one.
Ich bin ein Berliner
May 9, 2007I will be, for just 24 hours unfortunately, dropping by Designmai, a yearly design event in Berlin, to be part of a panel named“What they hate about the world of design”. As the organiser of the panel Mell Byars describes the conversation as follows:
” I wrote to a number of journalists, museum curators, manufacturers, designers, teachers, and others. I asked them: “What do you hate about today’s world of design?”
I offered them anonymity. If I had not, they would not have replied. I received a torrent of angry (in some cases), annoyed (in other cases), and generally disappointed (in others). Still others made intelligent suggestions. ”
This should be, in anycase, a very interesting conversation and hopefully engages the public as well.
links for 2007-05-07
May 7, 2007-
Good talk by Bruce Sterling but very poor student work presented by his counter part Scott Klinker. At least most of the projects he showed i’ve seen before in some form or another.