February 2010
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pecha kucha night coming soon!
Hi IDers
(yay- first time posting on new idiom!!)
I’m planning to go to pecha kucha this tuesdays, so whoever wants to join let me know. Check out the details at here : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/chicago/13
And, for those of you haven’t heard of it YET, check this out : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/ Worth to visit!
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Nice Historical Rundown of Olympic Pictograms →
Steven Heller gives a good rundown of the winners and losers of Olympic Pictograms in this 4 minute video.
Designer Personality Traits
A brief article in Fast Company discusses the results of 65 designers taking the Meyers Briggs personality test. When it came to the source of energy (Extroversion-Introversion) and decision-making traits (Feeling-Thinking), designers were pretty evenly split. Interestingly enough, designers tended more toward Intuiting (instead of Sensing) and Judging (instead of Perceiving).
The author of the...
Synergy...Paradigm...GAME CHANGING
CMU professor Jesse Schell gives a presentation about how we can design health insurance, public transportation and even Facebook apps that make money - turn them all into games. Plus he gets bonus points for his Mitch Hedberg style delivery.
Transdisciplinary Design Program Starting @... →
Parsons New School of Design in NY is starting a new MFA called Transdisciplinary Design calling for experts/people in a wide variety of fields to tackle real-world issues through design. They made a video trying to describe what this is…what do you think?
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Kasparov embraces process
The chess grandmaster and current political activist is an unrecognizedly great design theorist, with the sharpest connection to our own work at ID coming in this summary of an analysis of a chess tournament with open rules regarding the number and type of players on each team:
“Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a...
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Be EPIC
Design skills for a good cause
EPIC (Engaging Philanthropy Inspiring Creatives) helps creative professionals and nonprofits join forces, making a bigger impact on the world than either could alone. In regular intervals, they pair select teams of “creatives” from the ad/design industries with select nonprofit clients dedicated to education, children and families. During an “8-week creative...
Design Over-Thinking
So, I just happened across this article titled, “So you Wanna be a Design Strategist?” by Luke Wroblewski (http://www.lukew.com/FF/entry.asp?435).
What struck me almost immediately was point #2: Don’t over research. Luke writes, “By its very nature, a designer’s job requires using both left and right brain functions. Sometimes over-thinking a solution makes it hard...
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Fire up the App Store - IDEO just released a... →
Has anyone had any experience using these cards? If so care to comment?
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The New Austin Center for Design →
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Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” →
Interesting read.
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Define IA
The Information Architecture Institute is holding a competition to define IA visually - http://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/ The deadline is today Feb 11 (i just found out yesterday myself!) but you can participate by leaving comments about how great my entry is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/58228665@N00/4349673260/
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ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ
As we all know, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a seminal figure of Modernism as well as our lovely school, has a notoriously difficult to pronounce last name. Furthermore, it seems everyone has strongly held opinions about the proper way to pronounce it. Within a week at ID I heard it pronounced at least two completely different ways, and not just by students. Some said Laszlo Moholy-Nagie, while other said...
WatchIn case you missed it, here is the video of the lecturette from Wednesday.
The website for the book is: www.innovatorssourcebook.com
Here is a description of what was discussed:
“Dan will be discussing with us his background as a student of entrepreneurship and what led to the creation of The Innovator’s Sourcebook. He will also be speaking on how the business community ...