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ethiography
- byMike on12 Nov 08 in- Live Projects
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" Jack Kerouac lived outside the bounds of his fate, inviting change, success and failure with an idiosyncratic, non-deterministic life-style. Where the results of Cage's life were a deliberate achievement, an exploitation of a particular strain of artistic thought, Kerouac's writing and publication were the result of a certain existential serendipity. Great swings of circumstance and a tragic end."
To understand:
http://www.ethiography.co.uk
Click through. 
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World Thinkers
- byMike on30 Oct 08 inBlog
- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdOPY1Iqiw
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Year 3 Project
- byMike on8 Oct 08 in- Live Projects
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UNESCO Creativity Workshop on innovative toys for children with special needs
Originally posted on core77.com Original Article
The UNESCO Creativity Workshop on innovative toys for children with special needs is exactly as the title suggests. For two whole weeks 20 participants will live with a group of children with special needs in an attempt to develop toys that encourage play and therapeutic needs.
The aim is come out with a "DIY" manual for parents and carers, so they can re-create the toys themselves.
Design Project...
Although I am not designing toys for children with special needs, this caught my eye as it showed me a great technique of getting first hand information on disabled users - by actually living with them for a short while. This kind of hands on research could be useful for me as it would enable me to see first hand where the problems lie, and could inspire solutions.
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Year 3 Project
- byMike on7 Oct 08 in- Live Projects
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xPwftEWnDU8
"Freedom by Design™, an AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) community service program, utilizes the talents of architecture students to radically impact the lives of people in their community through design and construction solutions. Vital modifications are made to enhance the homes of low-income elderly and disabled individuals by addressing their struggles with everyday tasks such as bathing, ascending stairs and opening doors."
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X Sting
- byMike on6 Oct 08 inBlog
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Last year for a project we had to come out with a new design for a fire extinguisher. I've just come across this.
"Sporting a simple, fuss-free form, the X Sting Wish couldn’t have got more user-friendly. Just like a gun, aim and pull the trigger. Tweaked with many firing dousing options like CO², water and powder, it also features in-built LEDs that can help to illuminate your way to the problem area."
thedesignblog.org
I like the design but I don't think the different types of extinguisher are clearly identifiable. Part of our project was to make it extremely clear the type of fire extinguisher.
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Street Vending
- byMike on6 Oct 08 inBlog
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All over the world you can find people selling in the streets, from newspapers to bottles of water and packets of sweets.
Most of the time a street vendors gear is fairly clunky, unattractive, poor at its job and probably very uncomfortable for the street vendor.
This new design called the Vebo is a new take on street vendor apparatus, it incorporates the ability to sell beverages, ice cream, newspapers and sweets. It was designed by Mario Weiss.
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London Design Week
- byMike on6 Oct 08 inBlog
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Unfortunately I couldn't make it to London Design Festival but here are some images of some of the work on exhibition.
Cardboard Cafe
Interior architects B3 Designers have turned their east end studio into an intriguing Cardboard Cafe, made from 8.000 (!) cardboard boxes!
LINK
b3designers.co.uk
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Patriotism on a Pulley
- byMike on25 Sep 08 inBlog
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Experts Thoughts on Pro/E
- byMike on25 Sep 08 inBlog
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Can Pro/E be made easy to learn and remember?
By Evan Yares of EvanYares.com
Mike Payne, Executive Chairman for SpaceClaim, and one of the more colorful people in the CAD industry, was just interviewed by the Boston Globe, for his thoughts on the potential sale of PTC. You can see a video of the interview here. You can read the article here. (Both are worth looking at.)
While I think Mike’s perspective on PTC is probably as thoughtful as anyone’s (he was one of its founders), I’m more interested in his comments about products:
“When products first emerge, they’re usually priced very high. They’re for the specialists… and they usually don’t work very well. As they start to work better, then more people can use them. And if you want lots of people to use them, you have to make it far more reliable, you have to make it easy to use – but that’s not enough: You have to make it easy to learn, and easy to remember, because people are not so hung-up on being the specialist on things.”
Consider the challenge PTC faces in making Pro/E more reliable, easier to use, easier to learn, and easier to remember.
PTC spent $100 million to develop the most recent version of Pro/E (Wildfire 4.0). All told, PTC spent over $1.3 billion on R&D in the last 10 years, not counting the R&D spending at the companies it acquired. I’d have to assume that Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 is more capable, and likely more reliable, than its predecessors. Yet, I’d be really surprised if it was more than marginally easier to use, learn, or remember (at least, for non-trivial projects) -- not only because such changes are very difficult to make, from a technical perspective, but also because they’re not something that most Pro/E users are really pushing for.
Based on conversations I've had with dedicated Pro/E users, what they seem to want most of all is more reliability, more performance, and more capability. They don’t want major overhauls of a program that they already have a big investment in learning how to use.
Yet, this really raises the issue of how PTC can possibly satisfy their core users, and still have a product that’s attractive to a lot of other people.
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