UGLY: How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design.
“Is ‘Good Design’ an asphyxiating dogma?
Design is a peculiar activity: It’s a creative process, but a process that subscribes to and reinforces certain restrictive attitudes. It can be rigid and self-policing, since a profession that earns its living by discerning what is good and bad must necessarily become judgmental.”
Gotta love the irony in this one…
Read the full article at Core77
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It’s coming up to that time where the end of the year is nearly upon us and all those of you who are graduating will be looking to put together your portfolio for the coming year. Lunar Design have posted a great podcast where their engineers go through what it is exactly that they look for in an application for a job at their firm. The podcast is tailored in the way of an engineers perspective but to be honest it is just as beneficial for any industrial designer. It’s great hearing from these guys first hand what it is they like, and don’t like. Definitely check it out.
Click here to go to the lunar podcast page.
Click here to download the podcast directly
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The LUNAR Elements team has recently published “The Designer’s Field Guide to Sustainability”, a tool designed to help all designers and engineers, no matter what their level of experience, design more sustainable products.
A quick note about the guide: None of these tips is a turn-key solution. They are very complex issues that often warrant added thought and discussion. Together, they provide a good start, and can help form a checklist of considerations to take along the design path to ensure that no sustainable opportunity has fallen through the cracks. Reviewed often, they can help us to make sustainability a fundamental part of our design and engineering processes.
Feel free to post thoughts, examples, criticisms or advice. All input will be collected and considered when LUNAR publishes version 2.0.
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Design site designboom recently published this great interview with the perennial italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas.
There’s also a bunch of other great interviews with top designers and other generally interesting people like Bruce Sterling, Stefan Sagmeister and Dieter Rams. Not surprisingly, you’ll find that in the interview section.
Enjoy.
Via: designboom
Catalyst Design Group in Melbourne is looking for a Design Engineer. Experience and an understanding of ProE is essential but if you feel you make up for whatever experience you lack in other areas give them a call. Contact Craig on +61 3 94286352 or email your portfolio to info@catalyst.net.au.
Lunar Design’s Icon-o-Cast is a great podcast that all industrial designers should be listening to. Every few weeks they release a new podcast from one of their 5 departments: Cover Story, From the News and ReviewsDesk, Transmissions from Earth, Man in the Moon, and Trendspotting. For full descriptions click the Read More button.
VIA: Lunar Design Icon-o-Cast and Lunar Design
All Things Digital has posted the full interview with Dean Kamen on his amazing “Luke” prosthetic. Watch part one above, then follow the link over to Core77 for 2 and 3. You really need to watch them all.
VIA: Core77.com
Okay, so it’s been around for a little while, but just in case you haven’t read it, here’s Core77’s guide to uni for design students:
Enjoy.
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MIT’s Technology Review has compiled a selection of 35 technologists, scientists and inventors doing some genuinely game-changing work. Highlights include Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame and JB Straubel who made the Tesla Roadster a reality, but some of the lesser-knowns have perhaps even more remarkable things to offer: Michelle Chang, for example, a researcher at Berkeley, is coaxing microbes to synthesize fuel and pharmaceuticals, while Harvard’s Robert Wood shows off some utterly convincing robotic flies; the smallest yet devised.
Detailed PDFs of each subject are available, and unusually detailed for this sort of feature, including profiles, images, technical briefs and video.
View them all here at technologyreview.com
