If you’re a designer you need be checking out the Design Business Review. Designers are in the business of doing business; their clients rely on them to make smart, market-savvy decisions and yet there is no resource to provide the necessary knowledge to make these decisions wisely. DBR is simple, pragmatic advice on the business [...]
This BBC documentary on industrial designer Marc Newson offers great insight into his creative and production processes. It is available in 5 parts on youTube:
More on the forthcoming Objectified documentary; this time an interview with the director, Gary Hustwit: Extended Interview with Gary Hustwit – Dwell Blog – dwell.com
Bill Gates talks about two of his latest philanthropic efforts at the annual TED conference going on this week; conquering malaria and making teachers great.
Tickets are available online: Objectified Screenings.
More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week: Download this episode of the Podcast Nature Podcast on iTunes
The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology. Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon. … In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films [...]
Yesterday IDEO posted some very well presented in-process concepts for BUG UI design opportunities. They started by presenting some Mid-Project Concept Sketches. Download the PDF. Seriously, it’s inspiring. They followed up with a post on each proposed concept: Concept 1 – e-Ink over Tactile Switches Concept 2 – Color LCD w/ Capacitive Touch Concept 3 [...]
I just found this interview between Gary Hustwit, director of the new Objectified movie, and Doug Pray, director of the new Art & Copy movie. Art & Copy is all about advertising. Objectified, as I’ve previously written, is all about product design. Hustwit and Pray find some interesting common ground in discussing what they each [...]
The “Objectified” movie I wrote about earlier this month is officially scheduled to debut at the SXSW Film Fest in March with preview screenings in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and London which will be announced later. The official announcement is here: Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit.
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