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DfD: Design for Disassembly in the built environment: a guide to closed-loop design and building (PDF)
This is a 69-page PDF, self-explanatory title, prepared on behalf of the City of Seattle by Hamer Center for Community Design, Penn State U. Haven't had time to read through yet, but the table of contents includes: Introduction; Principles; Design Process; Case Studies; Components & Materials; Model Deconstruction Specification; References.
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A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy
From the article's "snapshot":
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Research proves attractive things work better. How we think cannot be separated from how we feel. The next time a boss, client, or co-worker scoffs at the notion that beauty is an important aspect of interface design, point their peepers here.
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Ned Kahn: Ned Kahn Studios
Great website showcasing Ned Kahn's (typically public) art projects.
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Creative Class » Blog Archive » Design and the Crisis - Creative Class
Left a comment on this entry by Richard Florida. His post was actually about design, and how it could change under economic pressure. But then someone left a comment about how bad urban 'density' is and that it benefits only developers and tax-hungry governments. Well, I couldn't let nonsense like that stand, so I posted a comment in defense of urban density. File it under "really, some people...!"
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"Create Your Own Magnetic Prototype" (adaptive path » blog » Alexa Andrzejewski »)
File this under "great idea!" Get printable magnetic sheets, print out your design elements, and move them around on a magnetic whiteboard.
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How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare
Great slide presentation on how to design for the iPhone.
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Developing the Future of Transportation: Ultra Niche Manufacturers | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
In a way, the ideas in here echo Fred Wilson and Howard Lindzon, who have said that we'd be better served by a bust-up not a bail-out of the automobile industry. Not a bust-up in the sense of 'destroy them,' but rather break them up into smaller pieces, make them perform better and meet customer needs. Find niches, instead of hogging the field. "You can have any color you want as long as it's black." That model doesn't hold anymore.
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Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Jewelry and Everything Else
Amazing - I had no idea this was available yet: Ponoko lets you submit your design, and, bang, they build it and ship it out to you. Or let you sell it to your customers. It's manufacturing 2.0 or manufacturing-for-everyone.
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"how to be creative" by gapingvoid ("cartoons drawn on the back of business cards")
Older entry, from 2004. Fun stuff.
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Architecture of Change - Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment (PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”)
Ping Magazine interview with Berlin-based Kristin and Lukas Feireiss on their book, _Architecture of Change - sustainability and humanity in the built environment_, regarding the "conscious contradiction in the title — changing and sustaining. But how can I change and sustain at the same time? This challenge is what we try to put across."
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There’s more to architecture than its simple purpose of shelter or protection, a cast to architecture. However they are creating social environments, urban spaces and the public spaces where people actually interact. So they are the catalyst for social interaction, for society to work in. This is a big topic and we can go from dictatorial architecture to that of social engagement.
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This book gives a broad overview of what’s possible in sustainable building practices or social practices in architecture. So it ranges from economically speaking very simple, modernistic architecture to very free-flowing, avant-garde forms; from small, private houses to school buildings to skyscrapers, to federal buildings. It’s not restricted at all to one certain section. And secondly it comprises all these ideas that are in a state of research or initiative.
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Bonus: gorgeous pictures/ illustrations.
Wouldn't mind having a copy of this book!
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Casey Reas @ University of applied Arts, Vienna at tagr.tv - digital || art || media || hub
Casey Reas delivers a lecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna on programming & process for visual designers.
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"The Glowing Gates of Tokyo" - PingMag
Eye-candy for night-owls... Bling for boulevard babies... Classy neon. Trust the Japanese -- can we have a bit of Japan here?
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Imaginary Forces: “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed”
- brief description of an event at the Apple Store, Santa Monica, 1/30/08: Tali Krakowsky (Imaginary Forces' Director of Experience Design) talking about current trends in the fusion of design, technology and architecture. How I'd love to be able to attend this!
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Lettering Grows in Brooklyn: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
- fascinating project about documenting various typefaces in Brooklyn
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