Repair

One thing that attracts me to design is the process of creation. A designer has a concept in mind and works to try and produce something that represents his concept. Design can speak many languages, it's like math, complex yet so simple.

I read a post on Core77 about this years Ars Electronica whose main focus is on Repair. Repairing the troubles that humanity has gotten it self in, calling to arms those who still do not believe in the danger. Design, something that speaks to many, something that has a message to give.

I'm done

Seth Godin's blog today was about progression of work. How people get to stuck on trying to make something the best they can when sometimes the product was already a good one to begin with.

Push to go past the stages of development and seal the deal by producing a product that your proud of. Whether it be perfecting that speech, or coming out with a spectacular product... It's never an accomplishment until it actually gets done.

Ipad?

My mother got an Ipad for herself and i must admit I was intrigued by it when it was first introduced. But at second look... not so much... I was playing around with it for a while and I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

Looking at Nussbaum blog I read about what Parson's school kids had to say. Much to my surprised they agreed with my views. the Ipad isn't for creation, its for consumption. Its to sit at home and use as a multimedia machine. Not very interesting...

Natures Design

Man works to strengthen what nature has given us. But somethings man does not yet have the ability to recreate, nature still holds the upper hand. I was looking through science posts on Boing Boing and found a post on a squids eye.

Man is forced to evolve to fit natures needs... All creatures are forced to evolve. It's interesting how two creatures so different as a homo sapiens and a squid could have core things in common, like eyes.

FA 27 Assignment 1

So I was looking through the interent to find out who I look like... which is obviously no one... But firstly I don't wanna do anyone bad looking and second critirea she, I guess, would have to be hispanic. So here's what I got so far... A blog post led me to askmen and I picked three women, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, and Salma Hayek... Also Jessica Alba which my boyfriend suggested, but I think his just wishing lol.

Project

For my New Media class this semester I will first be doing a project creating a brand out of a new product. I was searching core77 to find my insperation and found the Blink an electronic Vehicle charging station.

Although this is not a new consept these stations are a rare site. I myself have never seen one before, so I thought it would be a good product to use. Looking further into it I found a different design made from GE which I happen to like the look of better.

GE started a branch dedicated to environmentally friendly design called ecomagination. Working to make it easier for people to start using electrical cars they created this wattstation which would be easy to incorporate into an urban society.

Public Art

School has started and so I'm back to blogging! I went to the city the other day with a friend of mine and I found something that I'd never seen before... Or maybe never took notice of before, like so many of the pedestrians passing by it. It was an exhibition by Tom Otterness called Life Underground. It was a series of sculptures depicting a fairytale of people who lived underground. But it also related to the bums or hobos that we constantly pass by everyday in New York.