October 2009
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Video of Tetsuya Kaida guest lecture on global...
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video of Anne-Marie Kanstrup guest lecture on...
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drop in and decorate
our cookie decorating event was earlier today! i think it went great, thanks for everybody who showed up and created some phenomenal cookies. i took some single shots of just under half of the cookies for people to see. and stitched them together tonite instead of doing work, so here it is! i uploaded it onto my flickr as well, so go there for the full size. i also tried labeling the cookies by...
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A comic for ID
We’ve all had that conversation where we try to explain just what it is that we do here at ID. Here’s a comic I’ve been working on that’s inspired by just that.
The comic is from the point of view of a confused scientist who has heard about this self described tribe of “designers”, and who tries (and fails) to work out just what the heck they are doing.
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Video of Will Mazzarella lecture
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Photo alum Barbara Crane's (MS '66) exhibition...
The web article contains a nice slideshow of her work, currently on showcase at the IIT Galvin Library Kemper Art Gallery.
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/art-design/79630/photographer-barbara-crane
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DRC on Core77
Check out the ID students who made it onto Core77.
ID gets hands on
While some IDers had a few days to breathe, some of us got hands on during Intersession week. Bill Verplank led the Physical Human Factors course this week, where we saw his famous sketch (live!) from Designing Interactions, danced with dynamic objects (a show and tell of sorts), and even made cars out of legos.
Like kids in a candy store…
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IDEO Labs - not just hardware interactions
Ever wanted to have your keynote presentations take on the fun and authority of a cable news broadcast? Now you can have streaming twitter content live with just an addon.
http://labs.ideo.com/2009/06/23/keynote-tweet-participate-in-the-backchannel-of-your-own-presentation/#comments
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M.E.T.H.O.D. Man (and Woman)
So a couple years ago, a classmate made an eloquent and more-than-valid argument that ID Methods are not what we should concentrate on. And while I agree, there has been talk lately about how methods also shouldn’t be left out. They show a process, a logic, and a structure to your problem solving, as opposed to blindly throwing frameworks at a situation until a pattern emerges from the...
A few links for RecruitID prep
With the imminent advent of RecruitID, students on all floors of the Institute of Design begin to go a little haywire. While exploring options myself, I came across a few links that might be helpful (though I’m not promising anything).
The Brand Called You is an article about… well, branding yourself, which seems to be an ever salient piece of advice.
Creating a Graphic Portfolio...
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Why Design Thinking Won't Save You
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/merholz/2009/10/why-design-thinking-wont-save.html
Excerpt:
Whenever I see a business magazine glow about design thinking, as BusinessWeek has done recently with this special report, and which Harvard Business Review did last year it gets my dander up. Not because I don’t see the value of design (I started a company dedicated to experience design), but...
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Resource-Centered Design?
Greener Design has an interesting article on moving from user-centered design to resource-centered design. The idea is that our current methods of user-centered design perpetuates the economy of consumption that is slowly destroying our world. From the article:
“We’ve become a culture driven by convenience-driven solutions that makes our life easier, and more convenient with less...
Living Climate Change
Living Climate Change is a new site from IDEO that discusses new possibilities for environmental sustainability and awareness. The focus is not on what we must sacrifice, but rather on what we can create as solutions to this increasingly exigent problem. The public is invited to share ideas, so get your thinking caps on and start talking.
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REFRESHING
This is just the coolest thing I’ve seen lately. It gave me new strength to carry on as A session comes to a close.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/the_berlin_reunion.html
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Check out Jeremy’s latest article in The Innovators:
http://innovate1st.com/newsletter/september2009/TheInnovators.html
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Jeremy discusses several contemporary challenges in the field of design.
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Marty's Modern Monday
Come cheer on Marty as he goes head-to-head with SAIC instructor Charles Harrison, talking about their respective projects redesigning the iconic Fisher-Price View-Master. Monday October 19, 4:30pm at the new Sullivan Galleries at the Art Institute. Free and open to the public. http://www.saic.edu/art_design/galleries/index.html#exhibit_info/SLC_25633 OCTOBER 19 “View-master and the Art of...
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WatchLearning to make stuff out of foam core is one of the things takes up many, many late nights of the Foundation programme at the Institute of Design. It’s good fun, and here’s some of what we’ve been making.
Last week was Line Plane Volume, a classic Bauhaus exercise in proportion. It’s pretty simple to explain - you have to make an object using just one line (a strip of...
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DRC 2009 update
After the break this morning we heard from Jon Kolko and then Dan Saffer.
In Jon’s quick talk, he discussed how to remain relevant in a world where “research methods are not enough [and] research is already a commodity.”
Dan touched on the issues involved in gestural interfaces. Entertaining tidbits include singing the jingle for “The Clapper,” descrbing...
ID named in the top 30 programs for design...
Business Week names IIT’s dual degree program as one of the world’s best design schools for design thinking.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/13.htm
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DRC at the break
Robert Fabricant talked about moving the focus of design research from intuition to influence:
observations-engagement
insights-behavior
individual-collective
inquiry-conversations
inspiration-activation
Richard Saul Wurman had a conversation with the audience. He had some interesting insights but was all over the map.
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Link to the DRC