Not yet tired of iPad jokes….
http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/ipad/imaxi-protect-your-apple-ipad-110014
“Hand crafted with a durable vinyl outer layer and quilted-cotton sleeve, the iMaxi will help keep your iPad clean and dry. The iMaxi’s velcro-latched wing design (direct mimic of a traditional maxi-pad) wraps around the device. After all, you don’t want the iPad slipping and sliding around.”
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!
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.
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 strong human + machine + inferior process.”
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592
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 rally,” each team creates plans, programs, and materials—on a pro-bono basis—that their nonprofit client needs to positively affect the lives of those they serve.
Are you EPIC?
Whether you are a creative or a nonprofit, we can make a big difference by working together. EPIC is pairing select teams of creative professionals with select nonprofit clients whose missions focus on education, children and families. Deadline is March 1st.
Past/Present ID/EPIC contributors:
Rober Zolna
Tim Miller
Amanda Stewart
Interested? http://iamepic.org/
or email: miguelc@id.iit.edu
Nice to meet you Miguel Cervantes
Where are you from?
Born in Mexico. Raised in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood (so sort of like being raised in Mexico). And there are bits of my heart in rural Minnesota and Paris (not Texas).
How did you end up at ID? Where were you before?
No other school would take me. Kinda. I have a B.A. in Anthropology with a French studies concentration. Naturally, I found a job as program director for a Chicago nonprofit that offers educational opportunities to under-resourced middle-school students. Nonprofit budgeting made me really resourceful, so I often found myself designing everything from event flyers to the students’ academic experiences. I enjoyed this and wanted to do more of it. Turns out that what I was doing was part of something called Design thinking, but I had no traditional design background. ID offered all of that and then some.
Tell us quickly about a project that you’re working on now that you’re really excited about.
Taking photos that John Grimes won’t crop, color correct, or straighten. I’m 0 in 3. Oh, and if you come to my presentation I’ll tell you about other side projects that have me tickled pink.
What do you do in your spare time?
Attend classes at ID. On my busy time I do my homework for said classes.
What would you do with 20 million dollars?
Pay my grad school loans. If I had anything leftover, I’d go on a gastronomic world tour.
What super-power would you most like to have, and why?
The power of staying awake for 24 hours a day. Because then I could attack super villains while they slept.
What are the websites you could not live without?
In no particular order:
www.thenewidiom.com
My music blogs.
google maps (I like knowing where I am and where I’m going)
Is there anything you would like to say to ID?
I have never encountered a more diligent, apt, and quick-minded group than I have here.
Fire up the App Store - IDEO just released a method card app →
Has anyone had any experience using these cards? If so care to comment?
Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” →
Interesting read.
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/
