This Is Thesis
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Design Research Library by Gina Giampaolo (2012), Senior Projects with Erik Brandt.
The Design Research Library is a model for collecting and consolidating meaningful design research and writing. The goal of the library is to provide readers with the tools to gain a full understanding of the evolution of critical design writing, theory, and practice. Well-informed readers are able to enter into discourse as talented writers, makers and library contributors. [NK]
(via designthinkingpsu)
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Designing Connection Manifesto
We should design to help people connect
To use our hands, mind and vision together
To make sense of where we live
The world
And who we are
Because if we didn’t
We’d feel too small
Too insignificant
Lost
Design should trigger experiences
Design is our filter for comprehension
Design is our path to understanding
You
Me
And the World
The connections between people
And how we connect
Are constantly changing
From our grandmother
To our mother
To us
Objects should be secondary to our ideas
The rules are changing
We don’t talk about the same things
We don’t talk in the same way
We don’t talk in the same mediums
How can designers play with this?
How can we help to understand
our evolving technological World?
How is our evolving technology
changing us?
Can we grow closer?
Instead of apart
We think so -
First Things First Manifesto 2000
It’d been awhile since I read this, good to be reminded of.Various authors
We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession’s time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart. -
Project Description
The Center for Person by Person Research
Found a research and educational organization interested in physical and virtual communities. This organization will investigate, document and cultivate the evolving way humans seek connection. Intended goals include facilitating dialogue on evolving human connection, encouraging non traditional methods of research, and create a network for interested people.
Deliverables:
A Quarterly Report: Booklet on past projects for interested parties to understand organization’s work.
Case Study Book(let): A need to know resource, ‘Allied Work’ projects that are not affiliated with organization but are useful to it’s practice.
Reading & Resource List: A physical and web resource to guide interested parties in their discovery and delight.
Website/Blog: Serves as framework for organization, a living document of the organization, it’s goals, work and ideas.
Branding Materials:
Business Card: To legitify practices, add official flair, potentially on designed so that anyone could give them out as a member.
Stickers & Stamp: To be used on projects that are sealed with the organization’s approval.
Badge of Membership: A web and physical badge
Beautifully Packaged Packet: To include all tangible elements, report, case study booklet, reading & resource guide, above branding materials and document of invitation/membership. This should be able to be easily mailed as well as handed out.
Possibly:
Video Project: Short video (2-3min) to introduce the idea of evolving human connection, generate interest and conversation.
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(via plantshapes)
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DESIGN ARMY -
OPEN IDEO -
JTK archive: Ten Things I Have Learned—Milton Glaser Part of AIGA Talk in London
November 22, 20011. YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people… -
Digging in deep to some old files…
Here is a selection of scans from Lawrence Halprin’s book Taking Part: A Workshop Approach to Collective Creativity. This is an excellent book. Someday I want to own it but for now it’s a million dollars on the internet.
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Center for Land Use Interpretation Case Study
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Participate: Modularity
At first I was skeptical of the connection of modularity to user generated content or participatory design. I thought of traditional physically modular design and thought it was a stretching connection. As the chapter continued though, I like the idea of modularity being the framework to create a project and build something larger from its parts. It’s a nice concept to wrap up small bit. The interviews were, again, particularly enlightening, Jonathan Puckey stuck out to me in particular in his view of the developing designer. I would love to be able to participate in some of his classes or be apart of something similar. I like the idea of developing tools and growing frameworks that can be used and manipulated without you.
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Designer of 2015
After reading the initial article on AIGA investigating the trends of the “new” designer, I was pretty sure it was going to be total intellectual bullshit, but then I read the Designer of 2015 Trends and I nodded along as I concur with the ideas. I’m not sure these findings are revolutionary but it’s probably good we’re getting them on paper?
- Wide and deep: meta-disciplinary study and practice
- Expanded scope: scale and complexity of design problems
- Targeted messages: a narrow definition of audiences
- Break through: an attention economy
- Sharing experiences: a co-creation model
- Responsible outcomes: focusing on sustainability
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(via nevercertain)
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Be Brave: A Collection of Advice
You can view this project online here.
Main Page, randomized slideshow of advice.
Archive, where all the current pieces of advice can be viewed.
Process of collecting advice.
Be Brave is a collection of advice where submissions were paired with another piece of advice and made into a .gif to add to the narrative.
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“The comedian George Carlin said, “The job of the comedian is to find where the line is drawn, deliberately cross it, and make the audience glad you took them with you.” I would say that’s the job of all artists.” — Tom Marioni
