the unseen video

weather linked website http://www.theunseenvideo.com/

Design in site

A designers guide to manufacturing
example of design objects-materials and proces used to create them
http://www.designinsite.dk/

Creativity

design analysis project-2025 street furniture

Harmfull eco design

"This shower curtain slowly inflates around you while you shower. It leaves you only a few minutes to take your shower before trapping you." Better hurry. Said the authro of this stupid design.Elisabeth Buecher's My Shower Curtain is a Green Warrior (above) really got our attention. The goal of the piece was to show how water overconsumption could be countered in "either a disturbing or a gorgeous way" using innovative materials and inflatable technology.Another of those things much like eco fashion that mostly damage the spread of the cause and underastanding of the real issue.

Find what you love to do

As a followup to what is industrial design to me....It is what I Love.

assignment 2

a. GREEN Concept Mouse Pad proposed by creative. Using natural grass that gets its light from a usb cable connected to the computer , the green pad comes to offer computer addicted (or overtime working) clients a bit of relaxation at your fingertips. I dont know if this project is into production , or if it was designed to enter the market but this is a classic example of eco gone wrong. Yes it is better than a wallpaper (i hate wallpapers!!) but no, its not a answer even if it comes to aestethics.The organic shape is the best asset of this product but is destroyed by its massive impracticality.The look-good-only-once ideea puts people off right away (70% of users dont bother to clean their peripherals even once a year). So maby getting passed mouses is a better objective in the future.

b.Hussein Chalayan LED dress. Hussein is a genius at creating atmosphere.. i said it and i`ll say it again. We are looking at a creation that its single purpose is to create feeling. Because of that self-induced "statement" you never think of the production costs implied in every presentation (official information state that only 1 dress could "eat up" easily 100.000 dollars). Here is where i think all future trends must develop.. sustainability of production and cost of materials. I am not agains technology but i am against any excess in any field (especially when it comes to design category).

c.Fantastic design from Phillips.I picked this example to emphesize how simplicity works, looks, feels and not least.. sells. The earphones have a hook shape so they can easily hang by your neck when not used. I remember destroying at least 5 pairs of headphones because they were haging loose when i use to jogg.Besides its practicality , the hook shape makes it possible to hear outside noises as well as the music (to avoid the danger of not hearing a warning signal when running etc). Materials look highly well chosen, and the price is affordable.Briliant!

d.This thermometer is created after a natural gesture , it uses the instinct of hand temperature feeling to give a pleasant experience both to the user and the patient.Creating design to fit human instincts is a theory that few modern designers sustain.When coming to medical products, i think that confort and the feeling of safety makes a difference between a recovery or a trauma. Reorientating ergonomics and design to medicine is a step thats a priority in the near future .

e.Graffity - chair concept.It was made by a student and posted on his blog (i am going to be discreet about the source to be fully objective). I picked this product presentation for 3 main reasons. First is the obvious picture composition(as a proffesional photographer it upsets me most) which is disastrous. Graffity has nothing to do with that product. The woman is in contradiction with both the chair and the drawing on the background. Second, the actual chair looks like its made from rigid materials thus giving me the feeling of total disconfort. The round base shape seems a bad choice for people which cannot find a stable center of graviry (myself included).Third, opposite to Husseins work, the feeling that the overall concept is giving the consumer is that a drug dealer is trying to sell you a illegal , useless , dangerous , expensive , weird piece of furniture .Case closed.

www.coloribus.com

I have been researching guerrilla marketing and I have stumbled upon this site
which is a great resource for media and marketing campaigns, from mobile phones to social awareness campaigns

Tom Dixon vs. Mark Newson

“Often the context of materials strikes me more than the materials themselves. Context is new, not materials. --Marc Newson” this is the attitude by which designers can in a final order –destroy the world, if a designer dose not seek to be an innovator in behalf of the world he lives in, and directs all of his attention in being an innovator of things that haven’t been created. The highly acclaimed designer doesn’t show any mercy for the world he lives in, especially with his series of extruded furniture from marble..i have to say I`ve rarely witnessed a higher degree of snobbism than the one surrounding Mark Newsons extruded furniture. I remember he was asked on an interview…but why did you choose to make them out of a single block of marble…and he answered that : they could have been made out of anything, easily mass produced..but if that happened they wouldn’t have any value- and I believe that says it all about Marks Newsons concern for sustainability. On the other side…there’s Tom Dixon which despite the “risk” that Mr. Newson was fearing mass produced his chair design out of polystyrene-which is not quite marble and managed not only to give it more value but also make an active statement about Sustainability within design and furthermore bringing also awareness to the public thru his 500 chair give-away, because I believe that the public-future buyers-consumers need to be educated in order for the market to redirect itself towards supporting sustainable design. One year later Tom organized the 'Great Light Giveaway' of 1000 lights with a low energy bulb to the general public, bringing further awareness to the use of CFL's and sustainability within design.
I believe that Tom Dixon and Mark Newson are relevant examples for does and don’ts in their attitude towards design.

The energy tree- a emotional-intelectual-spiritual concept

I`ve been looking thoroughly for a product which would challenge its possessor, and in the end I found something...something that could be actually more of a incontinent then a useful convenient product...but in the end...all the good “deeds” seem at first inconvenient. The so called inconvenient product I chose was the Energy tree- Basically an actual tree that is connected to a processor that monitors your in-home environmental habits. And depending on your energy/recycling routines you will either feed your baby tree water & nutrients or poison. That's right, if you are bad to the planet you will see the effects in your very own home, as your tree begins to die. So I thought Dose the energy tree have any physical values? It wouldn’t bring exhilaration nor pleasure nor comfort, convenience, independence, security, survival...in other words..it’s not useful, nor necessarily beautiful..especially if you’re not that energy efficient and it starts dyeing.....so why would anyone want such a thing? But then Though it lacks this first category of values..it gains major ground on the other 3.If “treated well” the energy tree will bring to the user well-being: for actively changing the world staring with himself in this matter, personal growth: as understanding actively its influence on the world, recognition-if the tree grows, Nurturing and caring-not only for that little tree, but for the planet, himself and most important for his children, and his children’s children’s and so on, Status- as a maker and doer of the things he believes in and not only a thinker, self esteem-for putting all his personal resources in making a better world, Belonging- between those who support and believe in the cause, happiness-for all those above, harmony- between him and the earth, learning and gaining knowledge and appreciation of the effects of his actions, excellence-for taking part in something greater then himself, control-on the harm/good he can cause, quality-a concept for nurturing the future, choice-of the manner in which he takes action,, reliability and consistency in monitoring energy saving ,performance and efficiency in the liveliness of the tree and its correlation with the bigger picture, fulfilment, peace, freedom, trust, integrity, spiritual growth , spiritual expression ,creative expression-though you cannot customise it willingly..it does become the customised version of your habits, social conscience..for all of these it is more than obvious why the energy tree meets to fulfil them.
Despite not being a physically fulfilling product, the energy tree is by excellence an emotional-intellectual-spiritual concept.

Personal chair design

Visual presentation of concepts project-personal chair design

Estimated times forthe disappearance of mans traces

What is industrial design to me

Industrial design= applied arts which incorporates drawing ,photography ,graphic design, sculpture with theoretical knowledge form fields like sociology, psychology ,ergonomics , engineering, marketing all for the improvement and innovation of the surrounding world. Industrial design is one of those professions to which ordinary people gasp and say :”I never knew anyone gets paid to do that” and secretly wish they were one of “the ones paid to do that”. Industrial design is a never ending field of domains in which you can exercise your imagination, and if done properly, you can become an innovator.

Ferofluid at Milan design week

adidas original's liquid story installation by felice limosani

Mark Jenkins guerilla street art

Mark Jenkins: Tape Sculpture and Street Installation

Kader Attia Ghost

Kader Attia Ghost 2007 at The Saatchi Gallery - London

Diana Al-Hadid The Tower of Infinite Problems

"Diana Al-Hadid is a Syrian-American artist who lives and works in New York. Her sculptures take ‘towers’ as their central theme, drawing together a wide variety of associations: power, wealth, technological and urban development, ideas of progress and globalism. They are also – both in legends such as the Tower of Babel, and reality, such as the horrors of the World Trade Centre attacks – symbols of the problems of cultural difference and conflict. Al-Hadid’s Tower of Infinite Problems poses as a toppled skyscraper. Made from crude materials such as plaster, Styrofoam, wax, and cardboard, her structure is a monument to human fallibility. Sprawling on the floor like an imaginary archaeological find, the sculpture places the viewer in a fictional role as futuristic observer, mourning the tragic follies of a past (our current) civilization. If viewed from the end, the two parts of the structure converge in an optical illusion, creating a spiral vortex suggesting a cyclical repetition of history."(The Saatchi Gallery - London)

Chempaq logo and brand identity

Beautifull simple logo and also a see thru process of development http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Corporate-_-Brand-Identity-Chempaq/186245
Chempaq was formed to redefine the hematology test by creating a single use self contained cassette module. This PAQ (cassette) was designed to be easy to use, automatically calibrated and to deliver high accurancy and precision.

Richard Sweeny paper sculptures

He creates beautiful –harmonious simple architectural shapes out of paper using nature and decomposing it into mathematical patterns.

Banksy-reinterpretation

Banksy-reinterpretation of classic art correlated to contemporary or past historical events which empowers statements. A efficient method of making a message understandable and getting it thru to all classes of people either thru the use worldwide known art in art galleries, either thru street art-life size stencils and stickers.

Eco-fashion-threat

A potential threat of the natural evolution towards using eco friendly materials, energy, manufacturing processes is the association between eco awareness and fashion trends and items. As fashion has a come-and-go-characteristics after each season, i believe the association of ecology awareness with it will only bring upon ignorance and a shallow understanding of the real issues, but when eco fashion will go out of trend so will all the awareness they tried to create, even more creating a negative impact on the real cause as people that aren’t fashion oriented will give the eco trend the same believability as they give to fashion, as something shallow and unimportant. There has to be a clear separation that buying organic cotton clothes has nothing to do with stopping pollution, or wasting Earths resources.

Bling-bling versions

I really hate the “bling-bling” versions of products, the kitsch trend in which anything covered with Swarovski crystals becomes a high-end luxury product, especially when it comes to technology or engineered products and I phone is not wanted product because it is expensive but because it is an intelligent phone, in the same idea a Mercedes is not a sought out product because it is expensive but because of its reliability and quality. I understand that the people who issue these “bling-bling” version of product have in mind the spiritual factor of social status and belonging , still the buyers must be really stupidly-rich and snob in order to purchase such a kitsch unreasonably priced products, just like the Swarovski toilet-the most relevant example.

Nick Pugh-Originality in design

I have seen a lot of design-drawing-sketching video tutorials, yet none were actually useful, the only thing they would leave behind was a frustration that you do not have a born talent as they do, as most of the videos would turn into a demonstration of how great they were. Originality in design was the only video that actually made sense and in which you had the feeling of "behind the scene" of the common demonstration that the others complied with. Nick Pugh narrates and demonstrates they way in which he deals with a common problem that creative’s deal with, which is the feeling that everything has been done, and even that whichever idea you would have actually comes from your collective memory which has stored previous designs, paintings, graphics etc which you liked. He developed a method in which he would scribble with both hands curves, straight lines, angles, combination of both in order to release your mind of collective memory influences, and your usual drawing style to create outlines from which you could create totally new designs.

Skull skin by Ajee

I really like the combination of strong dinamic and agressive angles with soft female curves in this vinyl toy made by french graffity artist Ajee,it is one of the "things i wish I had designed".

Leonardo DaVinci exploratory sketches

Things I wish I could draw