Thursday, 2 June 2011

Piranesi 2011

my Piranesi

ABC "by design" podcast

Wednesday  March 9th 2011.
Trends: Joal Sanders
Directional GAY-IN-PLACE
The podcast was discussing a new design concept, designing for different types of groups/communities that are not considered by many of today's designers. In this case they were discussing a retirement housing complex in Palm Springs called BOOM for the gay community, catering for their specific needs  - "gay aesthetics".

TED TALK

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html

TED talk about new headset technology that can read the users brain waves and converts the data to movement on the screen like/instead a computer mouse. Better explanation in link above..

COFA library

Visit COFA library  26 of April checked  "Future Retro: drawing from the great age of American automobiles" regarding assignment 2: hidden stories product history. visit didn't yield any results.

MCA visit

27 of April visit Museum of Contemporary Art saw Michael Stevenson exhibition and MCA Collection: NEW ACQUISITION IN CONTEXT 2010.
The Michael Stevenson was disappointing but the New MAC collection had some interesting art work using different types of media.
 NEW ACQUISITION IN CONTEXT 2010


Product Family Tree 
Aston Martin DB sires

Monday, 11 April 2011

Past, Present & Futurtes Assignment 1: Poster Mash up