Eurodoc Tupperware's Take on Building Design Teams for Successful Products Globally Loyalty can be achieved if you care about the people who buy your products and strive to make their life a little bit easier, says Susan Perkins, Vice President - Global Design at Tupperware. Products that are relevant, serviceable and lasting are able to cross borders, but to ensure global success, cultural awareness needs to be injected into the product design process. The recipient of the 2009 Design Team of the Year Award and a speaker at the marcus evans Industrial Design Summit 2010, taking place in Cannes, France, 22 - 24 November, Perkins shares her vision of culturally sensitive and diverse teams who create products that serve a purpose, have an emotional impact on people and create brand loyalty. Why is cultural awareness in the design process important and how can it be incorporated?Cultural awareness is required to create products that solve real problems and add value to people's lives. Different cultures share different values, behaviours and approaches to life.
nz Architecture - Daniel Davis Open design comes of age (3), third of a series by Massimo Menichinelli Massimo Menichinelli (original source): In two previous posts (here and here), I started explaining that Open Design is now getting out of the underground, since many important design companies, institutions and other actors are now actively working on it. This does not mean that all the problems that we must solve in order to have a real collaborative Open Design are gone; it’s just easier now to talk about Open Design, since we have famous examples to show. With this last post I will show some important exhibitions and design festivals where Open Design has a relevant place. 04. Yves Béhar (founder of the fuseproject design agency) and famous for being the designer of the One Laptop Per Child‘s XO laptop, curated his first exhibition last year: TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality ( July 10, 2010 – October 3, 2010, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA). crowdsourcingplatformsblueprintshacksincompletesmodules 05. 06.
Urban Portal | The University of Chicago Urban Network This Week from Tokyo This week Tokyo correspondent Jean Snow eschews the customary survey of recent events in Tokyo and instead sent in this interview with one of Japan's design giants, Naoto Fukasawa. When you went freelance four years ago, one of your desires was to see more of your designs actually get produced. Now that you can expect most of what you design to make it to retail, has this affected your design process, or how you consider what to tackle next? I understand that my role as a designer is about bettering our living. Plusminuszero coffee & tea maker. For the future, I don't really have a particular set of goals, but I would like to work earnestly with each project I have, and to deliver the best results. By having such a pure/simple design aesthetic throughout your work, is there more thought that goes into the removal of unnecessary elements? KDDI INFOBAR phone. Does your approach differ greatly whether you are designing electronics or interior products?
Paul Prudence [BLOG] Emerging ‘new economy’ networks in the U.S. Excerpted from Gar Alperovitz in Yes magazine: (original with many links) “Along with the rapid expansion of small and medium-size businesses committed to building the new economy has come a sense of community and shared mission. Staff, managers and owners at many of these companies are finding more opportunities to share ideas and pool resources with like-minded professionals. In many ways the council operates like any advocacy group attempting to lobby, educate and promote legislation and strategies. The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), made up of more than 22,000 small businesses, is another rapidly growing organization that works to strengthen new-economy networks. Sarah Stranahan, a longtime board member at the Needmor Fund, recalls having a sense in late 2009 that large numbers of Americans were beginning to understand that something is profoundly wrong with the economy.
Net 03/20/2014 1. Sustainable University Day Today, Sustainable Development is a major challenge - wether it is a matter of climate change, limited resources or social injustice. On March 28, 2014, the first Sustainable University Day highlights the importance of this societal concept. The Congress takes place at the University of Bern, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Bern from 09.00 - 17.00. Please find more information on the programme's website: www.sd-universities.ch/congress The «Conférence Suisse Inter- et Transdisciplinarité ITD 14» is in preparation: Repenser les méthodes de recherche ? «call for contribution» CfP The CALL adresses primarily inter- and transdisciplinary lecturers and researchers in Switzerland. Agenda 21.02.2014 CfP 23.04.2014 deadline for contributions 14.05.2014 notice about acceptance Information about the winning projects... press release in german and french (pdf) Bibliography: Tour d’Horizon of Literature 2012 (pdf)
Lella Vignelli Painting of Lella Vignelli by Jessica Helfand after a photograph by Beatriz Cifuentes, 2010 Thirty years ago this summer, I graduated from design school in Ohio and moved to New York to take a job at Vignelli Associates. Even then, Massimo Vignelli was a legend. Other designers who heard where I would be working always seemed to have a story about him. Only a few of these were true, but most were outrageous. It was at the end of my first day when I was presented to Mrs. I quickly came to understand the relationship between these two brilliant designers. Although Massimo hired me, it was Lella who gave me my first break. Lella taught me about the value of design, literally. For some of the time I worked at Vignelli Associates, Lella was bothered by back problems, and occasionally would spend days in bed. I was young and naive when I started out. Massimo has often defined their working relationship like this: "I'm the engine, and Lella is the brakes." Lella Vignelli, circa 1980