ART CENTER DESIGN CONFERENCE 2008 | Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | May 7, 8 & 9, 2008. “His voice can be heard above the noise, please welcome Bruce McCall!” As a self-taught polymath and current humorist for The New Yorker, McCall indulges in nonsense. For example, a Scottish castle where people are playing golf indoors with the goal to bang the golf balls off the armor. McCall’s work is so personal, so strange that he’s invented his own lexicon: Retrofuturism: looking back to see how yesterday will view tomorrow, as they are always optimistically wrong Technoarchaeology: digging back and finding past miracles that never happened Faux-nostalgia: the ickingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened Hyperobloic overkill: taking exaggeration to the ultimate limit just for the fun of it Urban absurdism: what The New Yorker is really all about; I make life in New York look weirder than it is.
Perhaps ironically, authenticity is a major part of McCall’s seriousness. Our next speaker had a quality of fashion that Hockenberry could only begin to imitate: Aimee Mullins. The Most Innovative Companies in Design. Design mind | business. technology. design. Myris: Access With the Blink of an Eye By Ernest Beck - February 18, 2014 Forget all those user names and passwords. Instead, your iris is scanned and saved and used as a biomorphic identifier. Science fiction? The launch of Myris, an iris identity authenticator designed by frog for Eyelock, makes it very real. Project co-leaders Jason Severs, Executive Creative Director, and Dino Sanchez, Creative Director, spoke with design mind about how the iris has the potential to become the gateway to our digital world. Project Bertumbuh Takes Prototypes In-Field By Gigi Gormley - February 12, 2014 We spent the last weeks of Project Bertumbuh working out of Hubud, the Hub in Ubud, as our global team (South Africa, Indonesia, U.S., Italy, Singapore) prototyped and created business cases for our top concepts.
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