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Designing for Space: Core77 visits NASA’s Industrial Design Team

check out this NASA movie with probably the most ID-like work: “From the Earth to the Moon: Epiosde 5 - Spider” It’s all about the designing of the Lunar Module (the ship that the astronauts landed on the moon).
Also, check this Space Architecture program out (I’m a graduate from the program: http://www.sicsa.uh.edu/

Attack of the Human Vending Machines!

Samsung exhibited at flat panel display intention 2008. It is technically possible to make the panel thinner.!!! this looks great display plasma display screen.

Attack of the Human Vending Machines!

Japan loves vending machines (jidoohanbaiki, I think). Food, books, clothes — get it all by pushing a button. this post shows the ubiquitous you can wear a vending machine suit and blend right in (kind of) and shows the human-powerd vending machines. It shows the obsession to its illogical extreme on post.
According to the New [...]

Tokyo Designer’s Week 2008: Kicks off Today

Tokyo Design Festival design shows the kicked off today and core will be on the ground over the next few days seeking out the freshest work and talent.

Network Citizens

Network Citizens maps the key fault-lines that people and organisations will have to address in the future world of work. Not doing so puts at risk the very qualities we had invested in them: openness, innovation, collaboration and meritocracy. Since networks can act for good or ill, incubating the talents and ideas of the many, [...]

changing driving mentality

the technology designer or employed in such a way as the alter people’s behaviour. According to Wired …
“Ford and Honda’s next-gen instrument clusters feature trees (a vine in Ford’s case) that grow more lush as drivers learn to hypermile — the fine art of maximizing fuel economy. Leaves grow like crabgrass in springtime if you [...]

obesity system influence diagram

this is shows the reflecting on the potential of maps, a next step of increasing the interactivity of the map could shows the enhance value of information of tool.

future food

“involved tracking and interpreting issues like the shift in emphasis from curative to preventative medicine, the growth in popularity of organic produce, implications of genetic modification, land use patterns in growing what we eat, the threat of serious shortages, and rising food prices.”
Check them out here. What if … these products would be a reality [...]

kashklash or the future of value

This post is about future of money, it profound sense the current finacial climate and the question it is raising are provoking us to rethink value and system organize processes related to it.

UGLY: How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design

Maarten Baas’ ‘Clay Furniture - Stacking Chairs’
Is ‘Good Design’ an asphyxiating dogma?
Design is a peculiar creative process and today, one could argue that this dogma, generally predicated on longstanding ideas of ‘rightness’ and ‘beauty’ is choking the profession down, and worse yet, stifling its creativity as it faces some truly great problems—problems which if handled [...]