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Design is Translation. Design in Translation
brain spin | 'the blog', innovation, thinkingI have been studying and working in many places in Italy and abroad. Through this I have experienced many lost in translation incidents while working in a group, especially when everybody is working in a third language that it’s not his own. Sometime it is very funny, sometime frustrating. This same obstacles are there even [...]
Progress is not (always) Innovation
design consultancy | innovation advisors, thinkingI keep thinking that progress is not innovation. We always talk, and hear talking, about progress in a positivistic way, but we hardly ever hear what is the real, underlying value of progress. Are we only looking at monetary values? Or should we broaden the perspective and consider that progress-is-innovation when it is ‘good’. But than, again, [...]
Content Curation e Dj
design, on the roadBel post di Elena Favilli (che con Timbuktu, come ci racconta qui, parte per la California) su contenuti e contenitori dell’ informazione, e della formazione scolastica. Mi ha colpito soprattuto quello che si racconta alla fine, su content curation/dj (che qui di seguito riporto). E una immagine mi ritorna in mente di quando Andrea Branzi [...]
undefined warplay video
updatesFound today the video we did with Midori Yamada as final presentation for Undefined Warplay. It is rough cut and LD, but I still like it! Have a look.
Bananas
improover, on the road, researchIn a supermarket in Finland I spotted this scale used for self weighting of the vegetables and fruit. In Italy most of those have a visual representation of the thing you should wait beside the number. Here is a much less cluttered solutions, but it looks like users were making mistakes between bananas!
The improover live.
updatesI find myself observing and thinking a lot about how to changhe things around me. It’s probably part of my mindset as a designer. Livialein one day told me: you should call yourself ‘the improover’. We laughed and we finally thought it was a good idea. So I am starting to blog some of my list [...]
Cut! New York Knife maker.
on the roadVery interesting second episode of the Made by Hand series of videos on the growing makers scene. The Knife Maker follows the work of Joel Bukiewicz at Cut Brooklyn where he produces amazing professional knives.
ukulele!
researchVery interesting project of a laser cut ukulele to be folded and transported as a briefcase designed by Brian Chan. via Designboom
The media is the message. Is it?
updatesWhen the message and the content really do not go along well with the container media.
