just came across this and like the graphic interface influence on the cover. it is weird thinking this phone was made back in 2008… LOL
via LINK.
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my first sketchcast!
11Jun09my first sketchcast! – Sketchcast.com.
my very first sketchcast and now that i have this… so much potential!!!!!! to PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really this is my sketching…. deliriously and with a very very basic program… time and practice will make things better! 
Our collective Intelligence
11Jun09via Introduction to Collective Intelligence on Vimeo.
so i have another long and inspiring video talk… no this is not a ted talk but a conference way back in 2007 at korea…
what is so powerful of this video is what he said a few years ago is what’s happening now in terms of being global and how we socially interact.
Bouroullec design philo
02Jun09They have very nice work, my favorite is the colorful piece in the first picture. well it is geometric (triangle is my natural default design shape) – it is weird but we – designers – have a shape we gravitate to, whether is it a circle, square, an S curve… who knows but only you know or a good observer points that out about your work.
but anyway i love that they don’t have a formula to design and it should be like that because not all problems are the same. each problem is different and must be look at to how to solve it effectively, so if you do formulas you get dull “okay” answers… it is just not satisfying. but look at the article and also they were in objectified which is truly funny how they talk to each other.
How’s your creative process?
There is no set formula. Each project suggests a different approach. Yet, it is true that from the outside, it seems that the process is marked by some essential steps. First, there is thinking and dialog. Then or simultaneously comes the extensive step of drawing. After that or together with it come the steps of the modelling and 3D drawing… that dialog with manual drawing. Last, comes the prototype step … and the process gets back to the beginning: thinking, drawing etc. Until we get satisfied by the project…. [read more]
RISD graduation tomorrow
29May09I know i have not been blogging much… I seriously been working hard on my personal work… inspirations come first. but this is brought to my attention for tomorrow… gotta love twitter.
Sir ken robinson and johnathan ives will be at risd graduation ceremony tomorrow, when do you see this? an english event!!! So for those who don’t know RISD graduation and how it is done… usually involves rain on you… in a parking lot… or baking hot… in a parking lot… for the guests… lets say you are standing for 4 hours straight so bring some lawn furniture
but see these these two great inspirators…. it is a master card priceless moment!
RISD to honor creative knight at graduation | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal.
Sir Ken Robinson, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his achievements as a writer and arts advocate, is considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on creativity. His concepts about adapting creativity to the ever-shifting global economy have been embraced by education, government and business leaders, as well as by the arts world. From 1989 to 2001, Robinson taught at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He now lives in Los Angeles.
Robinson will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree, along with four other “exceptional individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to the world of art and design,”
•Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr, an online photo-sharing Web site, made Time magazine’s list of the world’s most 100 influential people. Fake, 40, now works as chief product officer at Hunch, a customized decision-making Web site that “gets smarter the more you use it.”
•Jonathan Ive is the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple and leads the team behind the iMac, iPod and iPhone. In 2003, he was named designer of the year by the Design Museum London and was awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.
A long over due quippit – lets support DesignSojourn Mentorship
27May09I have not “quippit” in a long time, and for good reasons… when do people see me writing endless and not get anything done? I prefer to be mute (or talk when I need to) and just do! Of course this is my work mode… get me out of the office and you will see an entire different experience.
–I think it has to do with my two identities of being a PA Dutchman verses a RISDer. They are the same but complete opposites. Oh well that is another topic theory all together–
I guess I need a reflection cause well, 2006 I was burnt out from school, 2007 sort woke up and pick up interest in design research/strategy/ethnography, then 2008 addictive to web exploration (how to use the web like how I researched RISD style – it may have to do with a new laptop too), and finally 2009 woke up! But it is still morning for me this year. Still groggy, needing some tea, need to look around my studio and my mind saying “what the heck did I do late last night.”
So this is where I am at:
Few years fresh from school with tons of personal questions and these are questions that no one can really give an answer for them. Or they can be answer but I know what the answer would be and yet don’t wish to hear it… But like others I am sure you have questions about design and so I came across this Designer Mentoring Program
Reading it, I was left with this question, what is a mentor? No really, what makes people a mentor to others? What does a mentor means to someone?
Cause think, what makes a mentor different than a lecturer? A lecturer just tells you their statement and expects you to apply it. UH? Don’t you ever feel from some people that you are “told” to do something their way without questioning or debating? …that is lecturing… and you have no say or objection.
But a mentor… well, to me a good mentor is a person who you come to with a question and you ended up not really answering the question but creating an renewal sense of inspirations of newer questions for you to figure out.
So if you are curious about this program just as much as I am, you just need to be an industrial designer or in that field of product design with little or exponential amount of experience. And from my perspective it is no fun if you don’t already have a baggage of questions to get started on the journey.
The other side of my curiosity is the “how” it works and maintaining that relationship. First it is a global situation so you will be using the “IN” thing these days… social media… yeah, I am intrigue with the whole social media because for me it makes my job easier and cost effective.
Lets face it, many American clients does not see the insight of design research yet. I don’t blame them, since I am having difficulties understanding how non – visualizing researchers translate their findings to the egocentric visualizing designers for product innovation. It is that part of the design process still not easy to cross. Of I don’t forget the other bridges in the design process that is difficult to cross either.
Maybe my next quippit will be my conflicting personalities… I have to ponder on that some more it might sound like I need to go to a mental institution or something.
Design research video
22May09via Choosenick!.
Resonance from Continuum on Vimeo.
this is one of those videos of raising the bar.
the editing – the story line and the way to they use design research to marketed as an entertaining video, but seriously when you watch the actual interview it is visually boring…. the story is important and they did a gooda job of that.
Bubble Room
20May09okay… should i reconsider my career as a product designer? ….[thinking]…. nah… but it is tempting.
The Berlin based interdisciplinary collective raumlabor was founded in 1999 and is focused on visionary projects in urban and architectural contexts.
Their latest project Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure – a portable, expandable pavilion which is mounted on a van and provided place to a 10-day programme of lectures, workshops, screenings and performances, organised by the New York based gallery Storefront.
Blog Hunter #13 – putting people first
10May09
originated from Italy, hence “in italiano” – this site well, it is neat but much of the information you have to pay for the pdf reports/research about the general topic area of experience design. it ranges from medical, service, business, consumer… etc etc. (pic is the link)