Tastes like baker's chocolate to me
This has been eating me for months. (you like that pun don't you). So much so, that I've decided to end my blogging hiatus, so I can talk about this topic.
First: Who designs a phone, makes it black and then thinks let's call it "CHOCOLATE"? No way that happened! The original design had to have been brown. And then some tuck-in came along and did some market testing and decided no one would buy a brown phone. Voila! black chocolate was born.
And to top it off: There are now a few new phone "flavors" on the market: cherry, mint, and get this "white"! I've sat through many a naming consistency meetings, and certainly cherry, mint, and white are not all in the same category! "White" is certainly not a flavor. Of course I get that it's supposed to be white chocolate. And we all know that white chocolate isn't really pure white.
Alright, I think I've let it all out. See for yourself:
CHOCOLATE by LG
Bucky dome home to multimedia performance in Santa Monica
MASS Music Dome is a multimedia performance created by
MASS Ensemble and
o2 Creative Solutions. MASS Ensemble designs and creates innovative architectural scale stringed instruments and kinetic performances, including the
Earth Harp. o2 is an experience design firm which combines design, communications and technology to create unique immersive, sensory and interactive experiences.
MASS Music Dome combines the expertise of the two groups to provide a one-of-a-kind performance inside a geodesic dome on the Santa Monica Pier for two weeks, including custom instruments, dance, and integrated visuals which are triggered by the performance itself.
Shows run through this weekend and December 7-11. Tickets and more information available at
massmusicdome.com
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Why your choice of materials is so important
If you ever wanted proof of how important the right choice of materials and processes are in the design and development of consumer products (not that they aren't in industrial machinery) today's story in the
BBC underscores it. Here's a snippet,
Both lawsuits argue that the problems with the screen on the Nano are due to a design flaw. They alleged that Apple was aware of the issue, but chose to ignore it in the rush to get the players into the shops.
[...]
"The far-reaching response also reveals that this is not just a small problem or a bad batch of Nanos, but a defect in the overall design that should have been rectified prior to the release," he said.
design your life
This site from Ellen and Julia Lupton
is not about shopping or decorating. Nor is it about a caste of specialists endowed with mysterious talents and impenetrable secrets.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE is about thinking.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE applies ideas from design theory and practice to some of the basic problems of daily living, from organizing a household and thinking creatively in the workplace to achieving a relaxed and satisfying erotic life. Yes, design can be brought to bear on all of these things, from good housekeeping to hard work to great sex.
Etsy.com
ebay +
Get Crafty =
Etsy, a great place "to buy and sell all things handmade."
Douglas Rushkoff gives it away
Rushkoff will be posting 10 tidbits from his upcoming book, "Get Back In The Box: Innovation from the Inside Out" on his
blog. Here's a taste from the first one:
The longevity and prosperity of any enterprise depends most on its participants' ability to maintain the wellspring of innovation. And the way to do this is to remember that you are always the source of your own best ideas. The most successful businesses for the next century will turn out to have been based not on infinitely repeatable Harvard Business School lesson plans, but on a combination of competence and passion. Dissecting an enterprise after the fact to see what made it work is akin to conducting on autopsy on a person to see what made him live. The very pursuit is symptomatic of the highly fragmented approach to business we're leaving behind. [via
boingboing]
Pedal Power from Indonesia
Deez sent in this link to a
wonerful array of indi-genius designs posted by Jonathan McIntosh.
User Experience Job Market
Signs o' the times at last weekend's Conference on Designing for User eXperience (
DUX)
Kodak One Gallery : New York
Kodak has gone all out this time with the Wi-Fi enabled
easyshare-one digital camera launch opening a temporary gallery space in both
New York &
San Francisco to promote the utopian world of picture taking/printing/sharing. Pictured above, the
MTV2 launch style street mural on Ludlow St and the New York gallery space at 102 Wooster Street. Both galleries will be open till November 27.
SF and LA: Not cool anymore
"The idea of living in the middle of the desert in a prefab 1,200-square-foot home, stretching ourselves financially and driving three hours a day, wasn't appealing anymore," Mr. Cannon, 34, said.Interesting article in the NYT about a social trend of moving away from California, specifically San Francisco and LA. Apparently, the high cost of living eventually outweighs culture, good food, and sunshine. I'm doubtful of this effect on designers as we would probably be one of the last demographics to leave a major metropolitan center, unless of course it was to go another major metropolitan center.
sidenote: The Times infographics for this article are as gorgeous as always.
Xbox 360 rejects
Take a look at
what we didn't get; especially love the editorial, "Dude, even I could've done this..." [via
Engadget via
The Raw Feed]
Blue Ball Machine
(Not
that kind, though you'd assume it from
the source.) Sending you into the weekend with this
Rube Goldberg-meets-Flash extravaganza, enjoy.
Glow-in-dark car trunk release
Mark Frauenfelder calls this
"progress at its best"; Garth Johnson says,
"you may call it the apex of industrial design if you wish". Us, we'll just never leave our house, thank you very much.
100% Design Tokyo - Silent Gliss
Re-Thinking the Vertical Blind by
Silent Gliss (or is that Glass). Thanks again to Victoria for the live TKO updates.
Cut and Paste Live Design Battle
Coming to NYC on November 19th:
Ordinarily, graphic artists are given days, weeks, or even months to complete just one project. For Cut and Paste, the contestants are going to be asked to produce a freelance design with minimal preparation in only fifteen minutes in front of a live audience. cutandpastecontest.com
