January 2012
49 posts
“We start with a simple proposition,” he says, “If we stop thinking...”
– C.K. Prahalad
“If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do...”
– Frank Chimero
“What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also...”
– Michelle Obama
“A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the...”
– Leo Frankowski
“High degrees of specialization may be rendering us unable to see the connections...”
– Terry Irwin
Gifty Things
What’s the best little take away thing / gift you’ve ever gotten when you visited someone’s office, gallery show, concert, nursing home, bar mitzvah…. whatever you visited?
Watchgtixd:
Probably the most insane effort I’ve seen for the title sequence to an AWARDS SHOW, but oh so beautiful nonetheless. Nevertheless? Nonetheless. By those hip guys from Non-Format.
lovely.
If you dug a tunnel straight through the earth,... →
Why is it that...
EVERYONE agrees that America should spend more on education, that everyone agrees it’s the best way to ensure better health, wealth, and security for this country, but it always is one of the first things to get it’s funding cut.
Why is that?
Armageddon by CocoRosie
“And then the lights came on
in the middle of the night.
What should I do with my life?
How should I spend my time?”
A universal experience.
"the anti-toms"
http://www.oliberte.com/shoes/
Oliberte Footwear
Shoes made in Africa, by Africans, from African resources.
“The end goal is not to avoid pain. Pain is a good and necessary thing. The goal...”
– Buddha, Kevin, and Marc mashed into a paraphrased theory of pain
“How many other problems in our society will we be no closer to the solution 200...”
– - jay parkinson m.d.
nine ideas. one of those nine could (should) be my thesis.
mei'd.2.go!: This is Service Design Thinking →
meid2go:
justification for not a product!
Product design, also known as industrial design, has undergone changes during past decades. The design of objects is no longer restricted to form, function, material and production. Design is arguably now focused on the interaction between people and technology,…
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, — in prison...”
– legal scholar Michelle Alexander. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander talks about how the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the War on Drugs has undermined many of the gains of the Civil Rights movement. (via nprfreshair)
December 2011
13 posts
