To accompany this week’s scores, here’s a highlight video with some of the participants crushing their cans:) Watch till the end to see danimal’s beast-like can-crushing prowess!
What does Michael Beirut think of us?
Read his recent post on Design Observer where he talks about The Institute of Design and Innovation:
Michael Bierut
Innovation is the New Black
Last month I was invited by Patrick Whitney, director of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, to participate in a symposium on the “‘creative corporation’ and the adoption of design by business leaders.” Naturally, I said yes, quoting Lance, the drug dealer in Pulp Fiction, who, when asked by Vincent Vega what will happen after he gives Marcellus Wallace’s wife an adrenalin injection to the heart, answers “I’m curious about that myself.”
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read on: http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=3857
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!
Consumerism in the Wild, Wild East: What to Know About Designing for China →
This was a blog article I wrote for my company (Artefact), primarily to show that we’ve done some serious research and thinking around what it takes to design products (we tend to do consumer electronics, like mobile phones, media devices, home entertainment, etc.) for China.
The lessons/insights/points are more general than specific, but our hope was to start an ongoing dialogue with our clients, other designers, researchers, and people in the community in trying to understand such a dynamic and complex part of the world, full of dynamic and complex and diverse people!
I did NOT go to China to do any research (no budget!). It is not a user-research piece, at least not based on personal experience. It was the result of a tremendous amount of reading (books, articles, blogs, reports, etc.), and numerous phone interviews or emailing/Facebooking (some in November last year and the rest this January) with professionals in design and market research, business, product design, UI/UX, and some students. The calls were to discuss some of these claims I was making and whether or not they were true, and if they had any anecdotes to share related to the claims.
In terms of acknowledging the ID students (former and current) I spoke with, they include: Lin Lin, Nanqian Xu, Ash Bhoopathy, Pinxia Ye, Fei Qi, and probably a couple others I’m forgetting.
I also briefly spoke with Anjali Kelkar, a former professor at IIT Institute of Design, about doing field work in China.
Hopefully, some of you will have some of your own knowledge, perspective, and insights to share by contributing to the ongoing dialogue on our blog, commenting, re-tweeting, or writing your own thoughts on your own blog in response.
Thanks,
Gabriel Biller (MDes, Design Planning, 2008)
Latest Ikea Design Has Critics Fuming
Some are passionate about packaging. We saw this with Tropicana when consumers complained about the package re-design. And some are simply passionate about type. A change in Ikea’s typeface has resulted in a full-on backlash. Read on!
