Nancy Cheng's List: Summer Design Workshop

Follow how Stefan Diez designs furniture and products on his extensive website. Diez works directly with materials to create prototypes - models at many levels of development. He uses what he learns about fabrication processes and material properties to inform design innovations. Among his award winning work is updated furnishing for Thonet.

Dr. Pelchat identifies secret ingredients of the meal: emotion, memory and nostalgia. The connection of taste/appeal with nostalgia and memory which could have some interesting applications in trying to appeal to someone from another culture.

The Jewish Museum invited 80 artists of all backgrounds to interpret the Seder meal for Passover. The site explains the traditional symbolism of foods and discusses the rituals of the holiday along with displaying exquisite examples of tableware.

The Low Carbon Diet Calculator is designed to allow you to compare the relative carbon impacts of your food choices. Drag & drop menu items, ingredients or sample meals into your virtual pan and calculate the carbon emissions created by your meals.

DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation rated entries on sustainability and performance. Key innovations include a generous use of post-consumer-recycled (PCR) materials and shelf-stabilization/transportation efficiencies, source reduction, energy efficiencies, responsible resourcing and solutions for end of life.

The Dieline's Latest Top 10 Package Designs. See also the Pentawards: http://www.thedieline.com/pentawards08/

John Thackara is interested in how designers can lessen the negative impact of our industrialized food network. He champions local food, urban agriculture, healthy low-resource eating habits

The significance of Food: cooking gave early hominids access to a much wider range of foods, helped their brains grow, and gave them time to develop tools and technologies.

These videos show the manufacturing process of many household products, including familiar foods.

Designers reveal the relationship of our food to its the impact on the planet in these blog posts.

Article about a design firm that focuses on the social side of food. Includes a discussion of design process & visualization

Inclusive Design : What's in It for Me? a comprehensive review of current practice. Leading opinions from both industry and academia are offered. 1) The Business Case presents the industrial and management benefits (demographic, legal and ethical reasons w/ case histories demonstrating the commercial success. 2) The Designers' Case :"Who is going to use my design?" "What do they need from my design?" "How do I take any medical needs into account?" "Just how "inclusive" is my design?"

Accessibility Regulations and a Universal
Design Philosophy Inspire the Design Process
Instead of stifling creativity, a climate of access pushes architects to be inventive

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This site supports educators and students in their teaching and study of universal design. Universal design is an approach to the design of all products and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability, or situation.