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The other day, I got an email from someone wanting some clarification regarding an article I wrote about 14 years ago. It was called ‘DUMB’, and it explored the role of graphic design in the dumbing down of western culture, by then a process which was gaining momentum with every click of the mouse. The [...] Read more...
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan believed every unsuccessful act to be successful as discourse. Mistakes are reference points. They re-calibrate our assumptions and reorient our course of action. The culture that doesn’t identify and contemplate its mistakes is condemned to repeat them. Applied Design Thinking practices help manage risks and avoid critical failures. But it’s [...] Read more...
Conditions are ripe for collaborative design to take place in creating solutions beyond Industrial Design programs and outside of traditional R&D centers of Automotive OEMs. Read more...
Is J. Jonah Jameson calling the shots on the theater scene, or what? An article in The New York Times reports that the producers of the Broadway musical, Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark, recently held focus groups to figure out why critics had largely panned the show. I’m no fan of focus groups, but [...] Read more...
I am walking down Tremont Street in Boston, delayed by two hours and no idea where I am supposed to be but then I noticed two people in space suites standing a few steps above street level in a beautiful historical building. At that point I was sure that this is where I was supposed [...] Read more...
What's the role of government in the crowdsourcing cause competition model? Read more...
As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process. With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative process itself has become fully encompassed with digital tools for every aspect of [...] Read more...
Don’t forget about us. A core component in the Singularity-conversation is the topic of the evolving humanization of computers. But how come we don’t speak much of the reciprocal mechanization of man? It’s a two-way street, but most of us don’t consider this in the big picture. Our natural processes are constantly influenced (for better and worse) by [...] Read more...
I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it. Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing to next level, the AR [...] Read more...
PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative culinary experiences. I recently [...] Read more...
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