Design is Human Centered

This Tim Brown TED talk is a must watch for all designers and consumers of design. All designs should start with human need.

Magical Moon Foundation Steampunk Design Challenge

 Here is your chance to get involved to make design matter.

Join some of the region’s foremost design groups in creating custom designed Steampunk armor for young Knight of the Magical Moon – children who have turned their personal journey with cancer into an opportunity to help others. These knights are known as the Rainbow Warriors.

For more information – contact Donna Green at 781-837-1618 or donna@magicalmoon.org

Completed designs will be showcased at the “Once Upon a Steampunk Moon” extravaganza on May 3rd 2014 at Plymouth Memorial Hall.  

Babson/Olin/Massart - Integrated Product Design Final Presentation

The College of the Fenway Conference November 14-15 2013

Listened  to Colleen Macklin At the College of the Fenway Conference at Simmons College.  http://t.co/GAx5GA5Ycx and played her new Meta game, available through kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2093152267/the-metagame-discuss . I had to argue why students should be required to perform Cats by Weber in spandex. My position was it would promote diversity because under the spandex we are all Cats.

I also gave a short presentation titled “Beware of Rocks” on how in design, computer technology has become ubiquitous, an intrinsic part of the new designer’s skill set, but it can mislead, misrepresent, or distract from core principles in educating the new designer. I also talked about all the press about “Design Thinking” lately, but that my feeling was that the key actually lays in the “Design Making”.

STEPPING TO PROSPERITY

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