October 2007
20 posts
Remember this face.
I say this all the time, but I heard a great story on NPR the other day. The host talked about the Quaker way of holding meetings. Rather than launching into heated discussion from the beginning, someone proposes the topic of discussion. Others in the hall take 5 minutes of silence to consider and form an opinion. Then, discussion begins.
This practice of listening, reflecting and responding...
recruitID is here
Monday, 29 October and Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Now in its 6th year, recruitID is once again poised and ready to provide a fruitful two-day networking and recruitment event. This event provides a unique forum for ID students to interact with design and business professionals and showcase their talents. Planning and coordination of recruitID is done each year by students and is head up this year...
Mark Dziersk Lecturette
Wed, November 7th, 12.30 pm, 6th floor Nathan room
Mark Dziersk has recently joined laga, a design and innovation partner to the world’s leading companies, as VP, Industrial Design. Dziersk is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America, of which he is a 20-year member and has held several leadership positions including president of the organization. He has also served various...
New IDer: Shin Sano
If you’re sitting in class and suddenly you hear an extremely knowledgeable anecdote about the car industry, it’s probably from Shin Sano, this week’s featured new IDer. He’s a full-time MDM student from Tokyo, by way of New York City. I caught up with Shin in between laptop traumas and team meetings so he could tell me more about his time as a car designer and how he...
Special Exhibit: Bauhaus to Chicago
Sunday, October 14, a group of 15 current ID students made the trek to the home and gallery of Paul Young and Margaret Fox, in Michigan City, Indiana for a special showing of the exhibit “Bauhaus to Chicago”. The cool day and the simple modern architecture of the home placed in an Indiana suburb gave the perfect setting to the collection that combines work from the famed Bauhaus, New...
Why designers should care about philosophy:...
Ok, I have to admit, I’ve always been skeptical of philosophy. To me, talking about philosophy is like listening to a drunk guy talking about politics at a party—in the right state of mind, any crazy idea can be right. With that being said however, I have to admit that new IDer Daniel Erwin challenged the idea that philosophy is just conversation among the elite and/or inebriated.
On Tuesday...
ID Faculty on the Road
Below are brief updates from two of many professors who have recently presented at conferences around the world.
from Chris Conley
I’ve spoken twice recently, first at the ICSID Congress that IDSA was hosting in San Francisco and then at Adaptive Path’s MX East conference.
I continue to present on the topics of prototyping, design tools, and creative production. It is clear to me, both from...
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Past IDer: Wally Hanna
Wally Hanna came to ID+IIT as an undergrad in the fall of 1963 from a Pennsylvania village of 500 to a sprawling metropolis of 4 + million. His design career has taken him to all major US cities and some of Europe. After calling New York and Chicago home several times, he now resides in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
His daughter was born while at ID, and his son 4 years later in Chicago. He is happily...
Observed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term - another interesting wiki list
http://www.biomega.dk/biomega.aspx - sweet danish bikes
http://www.jaccuzzi.ch/ - jaccuzzi-toting french mountain climbers
http://www.actics.com/ - ethics in biz strategy
Interaction gestalt: the medium for designers in...
Take the analogy of creating a product from raw materials, and think how that translates into creating a digital interaction design. When Professor Youn-Kyung Lim, ID alum and assistant professor from the School of Informatics at Indiana University, started to talk about ‘interaction materials’ in her on-going project at the lunch lecture last week, I started to get exited. This sounded like a...
Radiohead’s In Rainbows: The Beginning of the End...
Radiohead’s new record, In Rainbows, is fantastic (although I’m not sure you can accurately call a folder of mp3s a “record”). With it, we witness the band’s return to form following a one album slump. With it, we witness the beginning of the end of how both fans and major media alike interact with content creators of note.
You may have been told that the music...
Another Dramatic Situation
According to the mid-19th century poet Georges Polti, there are exactly 36 Dramatic Situations. Browse the 100+ year old list and you will see favorites such as “Daring Enterprise”, “Obstacles to Love”, and “Self-sacrifice for an ideal”. (For reference, films such as Spaceballs, Harold & Maude, & Batman adhere to these plot bases.)
Some design scenarios...
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New IDer: Matt Gardner
Please quickly introduce yourself in a quick sentence. Major, age, etc.
I, Matthew Gardner, have entered intent on mastering design planning at ID and mastering business administration at Stuart. I am 27 for the next few days.
Married? Happily…to my wife, Alissa.
Children? Hopefully some day.
Politics? Apolitical, but I know I should be more engaged.
Religion?
Mormon. I belong to the...
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Past IDer: Chad Jennings
The New Idiom had the opportunity to interview with alumni Chad Jennings. We talked with him about his personal publishing company Blurb, his experience bringing a startup to life, and the (somewhat) bygone era of photography at ID. Tell us about yourself
I graduated from ID in the Human-Centered Communication track in Dec of ‘99 (though I started in the photography track which has...
A Brief History
As a foundation student, I have recently been told and retold of the history of the Institute of Design. Sitting in a desk on the 3rd floor listening to my instructors describe the great legends that came before me; I began to realize what I was getting myself into and what I would have to live up to! ID’s roots begin at the Bauhaus and continue to grow today, exceeding expectations and driving...
Upcoming Lecturette: Daniel Erwin
Please join us Tuesday, October 23 for a lecturette by Daniel Erwin. Location: 6th fl. Nathan Room
In 1931, an Austrian mathematician named Kurt Godel proved that logical systems based on arithmetic are always incomplete or inconsistent. Just a few years earlier Werner Heisenberg, along with Neils Bohr and others, developed a formulation of quantum mechanics which suggests that - at small scales...
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Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament
Designers show us the money.
I don’t like just anybody peering over my shoulder while I design. Imagine having four hundred people watch you command key your way to blissful design nirvana on a sexy 21” pressure sensitive Wacom Cintiq monitor. That’s what it takes to be Tewz, the crowned finalist of this year’s Cut & Paste digital design tournament held at Chicago’s Logan Square...
Lunchtime Lecturette - Marc Gobé: Emotional Design
Marc Gobé is President of Desgrippes Gobe, a branding and design firm. He spoke at the Institute of Design on Tuesday, October 2nd.
“Anything that can make a nice T-shirt is a great idea.”
Or maybe that’s just the best way to reach cynical hipsters. People, even hipsters, relate to brands emotionally. And yet the way businesses approach their brands is often with rational...
The ING DIRECT Café
Sip. Surf. Save.
Walking into the Café at Chestnut and Wabash is a pleasant surprise. A wide-open space with plenty of light coming through the windows is dotted with small tables in the center and easy chairs in the corner. An approachable counter with staff ready to serve reasonably priced coffee and sandwiches lies straight ahead. Free internet kiosks along one window are easily accessible,...
Of Interest: Observed
On expressive clothing - from frog Design Mind
On the death of journalism - Kill vs. lead from John Batelle Hard Design Problem - Hope I don’t come up with any designs this good.
Unusual Articles - This ought to kill an hour or two. Cook up a bike - LA’s Bike Kitchen
Making this list obsolete - Channel surf the web.