Minimalia

23Sep08

I want to rid myself of most of the things that I own. There are only a few objects that I feel that I can’t live without, and while I really appreciate them, most of the rest are so expendable that I become frustrated by owning them, the wastes of space, resources, time and money [...]

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Failure of Design: Medication Packaging

03Jul08

So, here’s a situation: I’m having a severe allergic reaction without prior exposure to any known trigger. My nose is a mucus tap, my eyes are swollen and runny, I’m covered in sweat and in a state of confusion and mild panic. So by what stretch is it assumed I would be okay with performing [...]

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Tags: allergies, blister packs, design

The Pen is Mightier

20May08

I wrote this as a response to an article I read on the war in Iraq while on sabbatical last month. It is dated 5/20 in my sketchbook and is transcribed identically here.
you know I’d love to preface this with
some grand bombshell or revelation
but I know you all read the blogs
I’m sure you’ve got computers [...]

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Have a Smoke

01Nov07

So I figured out just now why everyone in the art school at my University chain-smokes. There are actually two reasons. The first is that just about every tool that we use generates a huge amount of dust. I finished a 15×20″ project in soft pastel tonight and I’ll be sneezing rainbows for a week. With all that [...]

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Tags: finals, fucking engineers, projects, smoking, stress

Principles of Acceptable Design

22Oct07

I gave some thought to what I would consider the fundamental goals of design today at work. My job is one-hundred percent mindless robot work so it’s essentially free time to brainstorm for me. Today there was drizzle.
In a nutshell — which itself is a good design, unlike blister packs — I would suggest, perhaps [...]

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Tags: blister packs, design, honest form, ikea, principles

Cradle to Cradle

18Oct07

Buy this book right now. Or get it from a library, borrow it from a friend, speed read it at Barnes and Noble, whatever you have to do.
Bill McDonough and Mike Braungart pose a totally revolutionary paradigm in product, architectural, community and systems design. Not to steal thunder from the text itself, which you should [...]

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Tags: architecture, book, cradle to cradle, design, mbdc, mcdonough, sustainability