I’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… Continue reading The difference between a U and an S
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Quote of the day
A 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.
Quote of the day
“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
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… Continue reading A Day in the life of smart things: 2030
Ich bin ein Berliner
I 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,… Continue reading Ich bin ein Berliner
Map of online communities
via xkcd
Thishappened.org: a cultural report
Most “normal” people, when they relocate, take a comfortable flight, try to minimize their stress levels and enjoy unpacking with a glass of white wine and a nice meal. Not this girl. I woke up last wednesday at 6 in the morning to take a cab with my flatmate D’arcy to Schipol to drop my… Continue reading Thishappened.org: a cultural report
Species of speakers
As I prepare my talk for next week’s Xtech in Paris, frantically trying to read the books that got delivered too late, I wonder about the people who do the conference circuit and have to give talks every other week. I think, from what I’ve seen and heard, that there are 2 types of speakers… Continue reading Species of speakers
About design schools and worldly expectations
I thought that this related beautifully to the opposite rants found recently online about what design schools are teaching nowadays (I’m mainly talking about Adaptive Path’s call for designers who can actually make things, and Peter Hall’s claim that there should be more holistic and systemic thinking in education). Via the always great Pintday.
Presentation sustainability
I will write more extensively about Luminous Green this week and what it feels like to be in a room full of artists, advertisers and cultural types talking about sustainability but for now i’ll concentrate on a smaller anecdote around the event that links nicely to the recent conversations about the use Powerpoint. In order… Continue reading Presentation sustainability