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CIID, IDII’s child school in Copenhagen is organising a 3 week workshop for students. Brings back memories :)
Archive for August, 2007
links for 2007-08-16
August 16, 2007links for 2007-08-14
August 14, 2007-
engineering solutions … interesting… keeping my ears opened
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great wearable interaction by my favorite designers
One liners
August 14, 2007There’s a habit in the world of product design to only concentrate on the object, its design, the supposed environment in which it would be used (think ikea catalogues where the occasional good looking Swedish person will show up to pick up a spoon from a drawer) and not really on it’s use… For example the Cima ladder, featured in my Core 77 feeds today…
Ok it’s a ladder that looks pretty… and it basically forces you to climb… but holy shit i would be scared senseless to try to change a light-bulb with this, forget trying to paint a wall, i can’t steady my feet on the same level. Perception of stability when doing vertically challenging activities is more important than esthetics… so this ladder reduces any possibility of doing anything that’s independent of a wall… which is why I would need a ladder in the first place no? … as for coming “out of the closet and stand proudly in the salon of the house.”, i don’t have that much space to spare.
So when we’re talking about sustainable product design, and using smart materials, etc… can we also perhaps expect designers to come up with designs that are smart and have the potential to be used in more ways than one? In this case provide the same function as the original product and not less. A “No one-liner” policy would be a great start, otherwise we will keep cultivating the egos of aesthetic and material-based designs with poorer functions and uses…
links for 2007-08-13
August 13, 2007-
Alan Moore, a smart man I met recently, talks about how the marketing and advertising industries can survive in these web2.0 times
links for 2007-08-12
August 12, 2007-
creative branding agency based, well all around, but also London
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French social network for train travellers in France
links for 2007-08-11
August 11, 2007-
Nice mobile barcamp happening in London during Picnic weekend in September
links for 2007-08-10
August 10, 2007-
Pubmeet for hardware hacking enthusiasts at the end of the month in London, come and join us!
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Nice interaction design collective, “exploring and illustrating the boundaries of digital technologies” in London…
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Hmm, could this be the year where i apply?
links for 2007-08-08
August 8, 2007-
American artist now working in Montreal… interesting video work
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“redesign design itself” is part of the voiceover for this sustainable movie… interesting to see the global fingers slowing pointing in our direction
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Nice review of Topoware in a geography context by one of the nice people at Flickr
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nice design seminar in Finland in October
