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At the start of almost every technology transition, chaos rules. Competitors create confusion, often quite deliberate, as they develop their own unique way of doing things incompatible with all others.
A challenge is arising as gesture-based control takes over on cellphones, tablets, touchpads and computers. Change invariably creates confusion and this situation is exacerbated by the different design philosophies of competing companies coupled with the lack of standardization. This problem is compounded because the new modes of interaction ignore the many important lessons of proper interface design, including discoverability, feedback and the power of “undo.”
Today, the long-established, well-learned model of scrolling is being changed by one vendor, but not by others. Gestures proliferate, with no standards, no easy way of being reminded of them, no easy way to learn. Change is important, for it is how we make progress. Some confusion is to be expected. But many of these changes and the resulting confusions of today seem arbitrary and capricious.
Paperfold is a lamp series inspired by colorful paper and beautiful collars. The different forms have been developed through playing with paper.It all..
Industrial Designer
Viking Range
Greenwood, MS
The Viking Range Corporation, an industry leading manufacturer of upscale kitchen appliances for the home, serves the North American market as well as over 80 other countries throughout the world. Viking is currently looking for a staff Industrial Designer.
The Role:
Handles the conceptualization and development of new products including creating aspects of form, aesthetics, physical and psychological interfaces between users and products, and system compatibility where required. Plans, establishes, and manages a variety of tasks including research, concept production, model making, and presentation in the aesthetic and functional design of products, exhibits, and displays.
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…is it the photography, the products or the way the lady behind miki organics has put her collection together?… I don't know for sure but I do know I like this shop very much…
miki organics was set up in 2008 by me Claire Watson, who was looking for stylish ethical and eco friendly interior design products, unique accessories and lovely gifts.
I like why Claire choose 'miki' for her shop… it's Japanese for beautiful tree'
which summed up to her what she is trying to achieve with her shop; 'a harmony between the natural and the beautiful'
You can start shopping at miki organics right here… enjoy!
Une réalisation très intéressante de Graham Hill pour le nouveau clip du groupe VHS or Beta. Un travail artistique et visuel sur les couleurs, les animations et le language digital. Cette vidéo sur le titre “Breaking Bones” est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
Designer: Sally Ng
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Category: Design for Social Impact
Award: Student Notable
Thrive Portion Ware consists of a cup and set of plates designed to help reduce food intake by 20% and help people develop the habit of consciously eating less. Plate tips if food is placed on raised area. Words on back are seen when users approach dish rack.
I know obesity is a huge multifaceted issue that isn’t going to have one nice neat solution. There isn’t going to be one. I ran into many circles and much frustration focusing too much on a specific age group and its needs. I focused on children, teens, young adults, adults; cycling through each one repeatedly. At the end of it, the best approach was the simplest one, to remake a familiar object people can easily use. I did not want it to be a fad consumer object promising easy miracles, only to be abandoned a few months later once the novelty wore off. I want it to be a product used repeatedly and easily where it will eventually have a positive psychological effect on people’s eating habits. Thrive Portion Ware works as a catalyst for that bigger change by helping people accustom to consuming less first.
Core77: What’s the latest news or development with your project?
I am finishing up the patenting process and working on a website for the project.
What is 1 quick anecdote about your project?
I had to stand back and honestly ask myself if I would ever use it throughout the whole research and design process. 124981491251 hours and an x amount of critics later, the answer was yes.
Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Malene Hartmann Rasmussen created this ceramic installation evoking a surreal forest hut from a Brothers Grimm fairytale for her graduation show earlier this summer.
Entitled If I Had A Heart I Could Love You, the installation features a stove at its centre that’s filled with burning logs, which on closer inspection are shaped like human hearts.
The wooden boards of the hut are nailed down but continue to grow, and a spiky kettle overflows with smoke on top of the stove.
See all our stories about this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show here and all our stories about ceramics here.
The information below is from Malene Hartmann Rasmussen:
In this project I work with how we perceive the world, twisting and changing the perception of the space to create an eerie surreal and otherworldly feeling. The setting is a wooden hut as we know it from the folk tales of Brothers Grimm. The viewer is intruding this reality-shifting dark place. It is a fake wooden hut, a piece of theater-like scenery made from drawn wood planks, the “Flintstones” aesthetic and Technicolor quality of the ceramics underlines the hyper real dreamlike feeling.
In the hut there is a fireplace, the burning logs look like hearts, but the hearts look like real hearts and the branches sticking out of them resembles blood filled arteries and veins. The hut is in a forest or maybe the hut is the forest; the wooden planks are sprouting and coming to life, or maybe they were alive and someone is cutting them down? This uncanny and dark fairytale is fragmented, like in a crime story the clues are scattered around, the viewer is the detective trying to make sense of it all.
I am working with mixed media sculpture, making and arranging multiple components into complex narrative sceneries, the dialogue between components and the way one’s unconscious can direct the composition interests me. The intention is to impose personal feelings and stories onto container objects that traditionally have no feelings. Initially the viewer may, mistakenly, be drawn to my figures thinking them to be toys; however closer examination reveals their rather darker narrative. They invite you into an absurd and surreal world where things are not what they seem…
I want my work to look like a very skilled child could have made it, clumsy and elaborate at the same time. My intention is to create compositions that have an underlying story and mood. I hope the interpretation of my work isn’t too fixed; my intent is to make it open for the viewer to filter their own references through, to make sense and contribute to the story themselves. My aim is to create a visual poetry based on my own personal story.
Size: height: 200 cm. width: 200 cm. depth: 130 cm.
Materials: ceramics, MDF, polyester fiber, pins, print, found object
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