Mar 11
The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour
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Mar 11
The Big Rethink: Embracing uncertainty
Posted in: UncategorizedpOr… ‘How you can lead in an uncertain future by using design to find new ways to compete.’br /
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Craig Sams, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of a href=”http://www.carbon-gold.com”Carbon Gold/a and Founder and President of a href=”http://www.greenandblacks.com”Green Black’s/a, provided the last contribution on Thursday’s schedule./p
pAfter a day of head-spinning thinking outside of the box, down-with-the-kids talk, juggling of buzzwords and multiple diagnoses of the current state of affairs, it was nice to be reminded in the closing presentation that a bit of old-fashioned entrepreneurial spirit isn’t necessarily evil. And equally that without an eye on sustainability all other endeavours are pointless. /p
pCraig Sams concluded his address with a neat litany of ‘f’s that have dominated his professional mission and career: food, farming, fish, forestry, fair trade, future for our grandchildren. His obsession is with the processes around our food system. He has devoted his working life to rethinking agriculture. Having been born into the man-made catastrophe of a Nebraskan dustbowl in the 1940s, this determination is perhaps not surprising. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/the_big_rethink_embracing_uncertainty_16147.asp”(more…)/a
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Mar 11
The Big Rethink: Design driven innovation
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pstrongRoberto Verganti: Changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean/strong/p
pa href=”http://www.verganti.it/”Roberto/a is Professor of Management and innovation at a href=”http://www.polimi.it/”Politecnico di Milano/a and author of ema href=”http://www.amazon.com/Design-Driven-Innovation-Competition-Innovating/dp/1422124827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1268313411sr=8-1″Design-driven Innovation/a/em He talked to us about the importance of meaning. Meaning as a way of innovating. First up is an example of a company that looked to innovate a lamp. There have been many lamp redesigns but very quickly these can be copied, most are now on sale in copy form in IKEA. In Roberto’s example the company changed it’s emphasis and decided to use light to make people feel better. This led them to redesign the whole way light was displayed in a room./p
pHe follows up with the well known example of the Wii reinventing computer gaming away from the virtual and towards the real – real movement, real exercise and real sociability. Another example followed, Fiat have created a post-recessionary car, a small car that can fold down into a bed.br /
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Mar 10
The Big Rethink: Introducing the Core77 team
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pWe’ve sent a brilliant team to a href=”http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/redesigningbusiness/home”emThe Big Rethink: The Economist’s Redesigning Business Summit/em/a, happening now in London. Introducing Jocelyn Bailey and Richard Sedley, who are live-blogging the event, and Kevin McCullagh, who’s writing the recap./p
blockquote Jocelyn Bailey runs the Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, an interest group of MPs and peers that exists to keep the cause of good design on the Parliamentary agenda. After studying Architecture at Cambridge, she worked for Nissen Adams architects, the London Design Festival, and Blueprint magazine. She loves writing, has her own a href=”http://jossbailey.wordpress.com”blog/a, and has just completed a major piece of research for the Parliamentary Group on the subject of design in the service of the public sector.
pa href=”http://www.richardsedley.com”Richard Sedley/a is Customer Engagement Director at the UK digital agencies cScape and author of the book ‘Winners and Losers in a Troubled Economy: How to Engage Customers Online to Gain Competitive Advantage’. He is also Course Director for Social Media at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. /p
pKevin is the founder of a href=”http://www.plan.bz/”Plan/a, a product strategy consultancy based in London. While at Plan and in his previous position as Director of Seymour Powell Foresight, he has consulted to design, marketing and RD departments of brands including: Ford, HP, Mars, Nokia, Orange, O2, Psion, Samsung, Shell, Unilever and Yamaha. His background spans design, marketing, engineering and social forecasting; and he writes, speaks, and curates conferences on design, business, technology and society.br /
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Mar 09
1980s: From Readymades to Industrial Production at The Barbican, London
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pem Ron Arad’s emI.P.C.O (Inverted Pinhole Camera Obscura)/em, 2001/em/p
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pemGuest post by Victoria Kirk Owal/em/p
pTo make it as a designer in London in the ’80s, you had to pretend you knew what you were doing when you really didn’t. This was the central message from Thursday’s panel discussion at the a href=”http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10133 “Barbican Center/a in London between a href=”http://www.ronarad.com/”Ron Arad/a, a href=”http://www.katharinehamnett.com/”Katharine Hamnett/a and a href=”http://www.design-museum.de/museum/ueberuns/index.php”Rolf Fehlbaum/a, moderated by a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deyan_Sudjic”Deyan Sudjic/a of London’s Design Museum. It accompanies a href=”http://www.barbican.org.uk/ronarad”emRestless/em/a, Arad’s first major survey in the UK, showing through May 16./p
pThe conversation focused on the designers’ career paths rather than the shift from readymade to industrial production, the suggested topic. The designers recalled their individual journeys to creative and professional success in a time when London’s design scene was diffuse and less sophisticated than it is today. Fehlbaum contributed his perspective on the growth of their respective design talents and the expansion of London’s pool of designers./p
pSeveral memorable themes emerged:/p
pbThe role of constraints in creativity/bbr /
Ron and Katharine both recalled a strong desire to liberate themselves from norms, practice design without marketing constraints, and answer their own briefs. The real constraints lay in the capabilities of mass production and, in Katharine’s case, the need to stay commercially viable to pay the bills without compromising creative vision. Ron was working within the creative and technical constraints that he set for himself, which gave him unprecedented autonomy and room to experiment./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/1980s_from_readymades_to_industrial_production_at_the_barbican_london__16122.asp”(more…)/a
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Mar 08
“HOT! New Designs From Spain” kicks off in Baltimore
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pa href=”http://www.mica.edu/”Maryland Institute College of Art /acelebrates Spanish design with a panel discussion that features graphic artists Ferran Mitjans and Oriol Armengou of Toormix, a graphic design studio based in Barcelona; Nacho Carbonell, a Spanish furniture designer whose furniture is featured here; and Vicente Guallart, a Barcelona-based architect who restores and builds internationally with focuses on nature and new technologies./p
pThe event is sponsored by the Embassy of Spain with the Spain-USA Foundation as part of the program a href=”Preview Spain: Arts Culture ’10″Preview Spain: Arts Culture ’10/a. The month-long celebration of Spanish design showcases some of Spain’s young, award-winning designers and architects. Designer from a href=”http://www.toormix.com/”Toormix/a will also be holding workshops with MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program./p
pIf you cannot make it to tonight’s presentation, check on the a href=”http://societyofspain.org/events?event_id=8403″Society of Spain/a’s website to find out about other events happening in Washington DC through June, 2010./p
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Mar 08
Prototype: Craft in the Future TenseJune 10-11, Dundee, UK
Posted in: Uncategorizedpa href=”http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping/”emPrototype: Craft in the Future Tense/em /awill explore the radical and multiple ways that creative people are making their ideas real, nurturing conversations across disciplines and methods. Co-convened by the Victoria Albert Museum and the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, the symposium is scheduled for June 10-11 in Dundee in Scotland. /p
blockquotePrototyping is done in many industries – from cars to ceramics, medical equipment to publishing, architects to chefs – but the process, development and understanding for each is different. What can one discipline teach another about prototyping? What place does prototyping hold for scientists, artists, politicians, athletes or business managers? How can prototyping lead these and other disciplines to imagine and re-imagine the future?/blockquote
pThe 12 speakers: /p
pMichael Schrage, Business Innovator, MITbr /
Elizabeth Sanders, Participatory Designer, MakeToolsbr /
Stuart Brown, Biomedical Engineer, University of Dundeebr /
Norman Klein, Novelist Cultural Critic, California Institute of the Artsbr /
Simon Starling, Conceptual Artistbr /
Pieter Jan Stappers, Design Theorist and Innovator, University of Delftbr /
Hazel White, Interactive Jeweller, University of Dundeebr /
Leonardo Bonanni, Architect, Designer, Artist, MIT Media Labbr /
Frederic Schwartz, Architectural Historian, University College Londonbr /
Constance Adams, Space Travel Architect, Synthesis Internationalbr /
Rosan Chow, Designer, Deutsche Telekom Laboratoriesbr /
Chicks on Speed, Musicians, Artists, Innovators/p
pTo register or learn more, click a href=”http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping”here/a. /p
pa href=”http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping”bPrototype: Craft in the Future Tense/b/abr /
June 10-11, 2010br /
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Mar 08
Next Generation Luminaires design comp winners
Posted in: UncategorizedpLast year the Department of Energy sponsored a design competition called A HREF=”http://www.ngldc.org/” Next Generation Luminaires/A, intended to “demonstrate the diversity of solid-state lighting products ready for specification in the commercial sector.” The winners have just been announced, and since there are a ton–nearly 50–we’ll just show you the four best-in-class winners:/p
pTask lighting: The A HREF=”http://www.ngldc.org/09/winners/bestinclass_Curve.stm” Finelite Curve/A is a portable desk lamp that casts a rectangular beam, following the shape of the documents (or magazines) you’d use it to illuminate, and it features a nifty touch-activated dimmer./p
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Mar 08
Design Revolution Road Show: Top 10 Moments Thus Far
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pNow over a month into our a href=”http://projecthdesign.org/”Project H/a a href=”http://designrevolutionroadshow.com/”Design Revolution Road Show/a adventure, I’m looking back thinking how quickly it has gone by, and how chock-full-of lessons, inspiration, frustrations, and surprises it has been. On February 1st, my Project H partner-in-crime Matthew Miller and I set out in a renovated Airstream trailer on a cross-country “design for social impact tour.” What began as a book tour for my book, a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/design_revolution_an_interview_with_emily_pilloton_14857.asp”Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People/a, grew into a 75-day, 8000-mile traveling exhibition of humanitarian product design, lecture and workshop series at 35 design schools and high schools all over the US. /p
pimg alt=”emandmatt.jpg” src=”http://www.core77.com/blog/images/emandmatt.jpg” width=”468″ height=”293″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” /br /
emPhoto: Stephen Heller/em/p
pOur goal, aside from an awesome road trip, was to inspire the next generation of creative problem solvers, and to provide them with the tools necessary to embark on meaningful, community-driven design projects in their own back yards. We’ve had run-ins with undiscovered geniuses, total nutjobs, 4-year olds and 84-year olds, and pretty much everything in between./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/design_revolution_road_show_top_10_moments_thus_far_16100.asp”(more…)/a
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Mar 05
At the Armory Show, a Whiff of Amnesia
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“Can I help you forget something today?” asks Minda Glynn at the Armory Show booth of Reed Seifer Design. (Photos: UnBeige)
In the bustling aisles of the Armory Show, the art fair that runs through Sunday at New York City’s Piers 92 and 94, it’s easy to forget the [stage whisper] recession. Is there something in the air? Yes. It’s Spray to Forget, the aromatherapeutical concotion of Reed Seifer, who masterminded the smart graphic design for this year’s fair and has his own small booth (L22) alongside organizational exhibitors such as the New Museum and the Art Production Fund. The sole item on offer at Siefer’s booth, ably staffed when we visited by the peppy Minda Glynn, is a two-ounce spritzer of consciousness-editing liquid. “Spray to Forget acts as a conceptual sideways-elevator, nudging the unconscious to release a difficult memory and replace it with a more appealing one, or to create a new memory through experience,” notes Seifer. “It also happens to smell quite good.” We found the $25 blend of crystal-steeped essential oils uplifting, almost enough to make us forget that David Zwirner doesn’t offer layaway. Can’t make it to the Armory Show? Go purchase one of the 500 limited-edition bottles at Seifer’s website. Remember to shake well before spraying.
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