About the democracy of creation and sustainability

As soon as I started blogging, a little over a year ago now, I’ve always been interested in how my former life of industrial designer merged with the internet. I went to blogject workshops, read about the “internet of things”, went to “near field interactions” workshop, looked at Matt’s work on Second life, listen to… Continue reading About the democracy of creation and sustainability

Making in 2006

Originally uploaded by alexandra666. I made this map after thinking about the state of the act of “making” something. In my former life, I used to be an industrial designer, then dove into installation design and then interaction design and now information architecture. That roller coaster didn’t mean that I never look back. I still… Continue reading Making in 2006

Twits

I joined the bandwagon of Twitter fully aware that i would only collect a meager amount of friends on it, (since it seems fashionable around the geek arena now to jump into the same friend collecting activity as kids on myspace) but thought it was an interesting twist on Jaiku. It definitely feels like “myspace… Continue reading Twits

A half-baked feminist

I’m not a very good feminist. I don’t read enough to know about the entire debate, and I don’t encounter very many occasions that would make me raise my fist and the patriarchal society and all I can brag about reading would be the The Feminine Mystique, and books about gender and design. I read… Continue reading A half-baked feminist

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Mixed messages

Italian advertising company…. some disturbing images (even if work safe).

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User-centered architecture.

DSC00084.JPG Originally uploaded by Rudemeister. This Collectivity project is a really nice show of how architects are starting to listen to the people who live/work/play in the structures they design. This took place in Oslo where they dumped a sh&% load of Legos on the ground and asked people to come anc build what their… Continue reading User-centered architecture.

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Doing more with Geography…

What if this could spell check you as well? “No no, you’re using the wrong De Stijl building again!” that would be high-larious… or maybe I’m just easily amused. Via Core 77.

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