Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Object Limerick
MEMORIES:
These objects simply have no price,
They are considered my happy memories devise.
They are books that tell stories about my life,
Each page reminds me of time without strife.
Each experience runs around my mind like little mice.
By: Sean Kenney
Friday, October 9, 2009
Pop Teck Talks
Christian Nold – Our environment is a emotional landscape, of which can be mapped and studied.
Vanessa German – Words are very powerful and have the ability to evoke all emotions, making it an art within its self.
Carl Honore - In this fast paced world, in order to appreciate all that surrounds us we need to “relearn the lost art of slowing down and shifting gears in our daily lives.”
Vanessa German – Words are very powerful and have the ability to evoke all emotions, making it an art within its self.
Carl Honore - In this fast paced world, in order to appreciate all that surrounds us we need to “relearn the lost art of slowing down and shifting gears in our daily lives.”
TED Talks
Ross Lovegrove – Beautiful forms can be seen in the natural growth patterns all throughout nature.
Niel Differient – Industrial Designers take into account the behavior and relationship with the many objects that surround us every day (big and small).
Tim Brown – Using play in designing and other aspect of work can be quite beneficial, through techniques like playful exploration, playful building and playful role-playing.
Niel Differient – Industrial Designers take into account the behavior and relationship with the many objects that surround us every day (big and small).
Tim Brown – Using play in designing and other aspect of work can be quite beneficial, through techniques like playful exploration, playful building and playful role-playing.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Do Good Design - Reflection 2
The second half of the book, Do Good Design by David Berman further explores the issues revolving the morals and ethics of designing and being a responsible designer. Much like the first half of the book, chapters 7-9 surface some of the hidden design tactics of the business world. Some of the biggest money making businesses use clever and smart design to impact the public in negative ways. In Chapter 8 the prominent topic is the power that the designer has. More specifically, it talks about how many marketing and sales designers have the power to impact society. Designers have the CHOICE to promote both worthy and hazardous products. The book brings up a good point in the decision to promote an unbeneficial product, such as cigarettes. Cigarette companies have created sly marketing designs in order to lure the young and uneducated (those who are less aware of the hazards of the product). These designers are not promoting a healthy world. Designers have the incredible power of controlling the relationship between the public and the commercial. The book emphasizes that designers are responsible to “communicate accurately, clearly and use (their products as) messages to reach and inform millions.” Designers have to strive to educate the society, and hopefully one day the “largest signs and most clever adds promote health behaviors.”
As the book progresses a little further the book makes a shift from how our end products can affect our global community to, how the designer can be more responsible and produce sustainable products. In addition, designers within the creative industry directly reflects their thoughts. Waste has become a huge issue today. Big changes don’t happen quickly. Knowing that, the arising designers need to make a goal to work together as a single force to better the world around us and to pass the message down. The book leaves us with a note of how urgent these issues and how valuable time really is. Ultimately, the message is, we are all called to act now in a positive, responsible and beneficial manor.
As the book progresses a little further the book makes a shift from how our end products can affect our global community to, how the designer can be more responsible and produce sustainable products. In addition, designers within the creative industry directly reflects their thoughts. Waste has become a huge issue today. Big changes don’t happen quickly. Knowing that, the arising designers need to make a goal to work together as a single force to better the world around us and to pass the message down. The book leaves us with a note of how urgent these issues and how valuable time really is. Ultimately, the message is, we are all called to act now in a positive, responsible and beneficial manor.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Do Good Design - Reflection 1
As addressed in class in Wednesday (9/23/09) the purpose of this post is to reflect and explore the purpose behind our first reading assignment (Do Good Design, By: David B. Berman pgs 1-96).
When I first picked up the book and read the title “Do Good Design” I had no idea what the book was going to address. When I thought about it further I started to think, “will the book try to identify what good design is?, or will it expose the process of designing?”
After making it through this reading assignment my thoughts were completely different. The common thread through the book so far is, how do we be responsible designers and the role we as designers play in the global environment. More specifically, I feel it addresses the morals and motives behind the designing odyssey. The book has been valuable to me because it surfaces many of the underlying, everyday design traps that most people in the common day society are not aware of. For example the book identifies the business of branding and name recognition. They use the example, that most Major League Baseball stadiums have a company name attached to it (AT&T Park – San Francisco Giants). In this example, they state how it seems like easy money for the company, but what is often not brought to people’s attention is the cost to a third party who is not involved in the direct transaction. This cost is not related to the almighty dollar. This cost is directed towards the local population. The branding of the stadium makes money but also creates a loss of culture and history in that area. On a final note, the book states this third party cost is where the “local culture is traded for homogeneity.”
When I first picked up the book and read the title “Do Good Design” I had no idea what the book was going to address. When I thought about it further I started to think, “will the book try to identify what good design is?, or will it expose the process of designing?”
After making it through this reading assignment my thoughts were completely different. The common thread through the book so far is, how do we be responsible designers and the role we as designers play in the global environment. More specifically, I feel it addresses the morals and motives behind the designing odyssey. The book has been valuable to me because it surfaces many of the underlying, everyday design traps that most people in the common day society are not aware of. For example the book identifies the business of branding and name recognition. They use the example, that most Major League Baseball stadiums have a company name attached to it (AT&T Park – San Francisco Giants). In this example, they state how it seems like easy money for the company, but what is often not brought to people’s attention is the cost to a third party who is not involved in the direct transaction. This cost is not related to the almighty dollar. This cost is directed towards the local population. The branding of the stadium makes money but also creates a loss of culture and history in that area. On a final note, the book states this third party cost is where the “local culture is traded for homogeneity.”
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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