The Flybook: iMac Duplicate? no no.. Ergonomic Laptop
Wow! Look at this laptop, I wish I had one this very minute, as my neck starts to hurt from bending my head down to look at my miniscule MacBook Pro screen. This idea is great for those who do a lot of...
View ArticleAdobe Headquarters: Platinum Coated Certification!
Adobe has been working on remodeling their San Jose headquarters and were just recently awarded Platinum LEED certification. Adobe's retrofits are the result of an upfront investment of $650,000 by the...
View ArticleShin-Yatsushiro Monument: Conceptual Design Was Bad?
Conceptual design is far from as simple and easy as it looks. From it's fundamental expression of concept, to its ability to intelligently capture people through simplicity. From far away, this...
View ArticleStockholm's Telefonplan Tower: Identity and Design
What do we think of when we identify ourselves with the towns, cities, and suburbs in which we live? Personal possession of the prevailing design of the landscape is essential to engendering urban...
View ArticleNew New York: Post 9/11 Skyscraper Resilience
Stemming from my last post about the Telefonplan in Stockholm as a factor in urban identity, I take aim at home, New York City. In the next four years New York City's skyline will be brand new. With...
View ArticleiPhone: Planning vs. Implementation
The new Apple iPhone, the craze of all design industry. After much awaited time, Jobs has taken advantage of delayed market entry to observe and capitalize on past PDA-Phone-Entertainment devices....
View ArticleA Note on Design Pedagogy
Reading a recent article on the theory behind Gropius' Bauhaus and the Applied Art Schools in Breslau and Dusseldorf, led me to finally construct a valid argument to defend both this very blog and the...
View ArticleOne Shape For All and For All One Shape
Alan McCollum, who turns 63 this year, has a long-standing interest in formal replication, and his work frequently addresses questions of materiality and value. (His installations lead one to rapidly...
View ArticleAre Designers the Enemy Of Design?
Nussbaum recently gave a talk at my school, that caused quite the stir. He details how the dynamic and evolution of the design process has brought us to this new form of design, where everyone is a...
View ArticleFacilitate Better Learning by Breaking The Cycle
Conversations are taking place all around us, and in this Conversation Age, we are looking to learn a thing or two from them. My idea for this chapter came while reading an article in Harvard Business...
View ArticleAuthenticity in Design: What¿?¿
The notion of authenticity is a motif that seems to be surfacing in this time. Transparancy, authenticity, and trust... things that I can refer my relationships to. This doesn´t seem to surprise me...
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LOCAL BLOGGER A PART OF FIRST-EVER WORLDWIDE BLOG COLLABORATION Rishi Desai a student of Parsons The New School for Design in New York City is one of 104 marketing bloggers from 10 nations authoring...
View ArticleTrials and Tribulations of Management
I was recently invited to become the project manager for a new company, and its associated business plan and launch program. I was hired, because I had worked with the sponsoring company before as a...
View ArticleEmergence of Poetics
The emergence of poetics in design is an underlying motif of complete design: that which encompasses the emotional and physical need to inhabit, utilize, or observe. The emergence of the poetic in...
View ArticleWhat Am I Talking About?
I talk a lot of gibberish, but this is the age of conversation, and apparently somebody is listening while I am blabbing.From the desk of B. Glazo:Drew writes about the changes - including a move to...
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Source: whysustainhttp://www.flux.com/0FCFAFFFF000EA49800080005BAB6/Parsons Sustainable Design Review has teamed up with Design 21, a Non-Profit commited to improving life through social design.Please...
View Article-- Flash -- Age of Conversation Monkey Hits My Table
He wants a hug before he sends off to Ohio!
View ArticleSuggestive Authors on Our Current Ecological Crisis
We are in the starts of the crisis of our era, our degradation of our social and environmental framework. A large part of my personal education rotates around the sustainability movement. In one of my...
View ArticleThe Power of Viral Marketing
Recent efforts that I have started to further a notable cause was struck with hard negative pressure, in terms of my ability to secure and transmit the reason for being and purpose for joining in the...
View ArticleiPhone: Planning vs. Implementation (REVISIT)
One year ago, in January of 2007 I posted an item about the introduction of the iPhone. Referencing the unorthodox nature of its advanced announcement and marketing efforts, and its intuitive...
View ArticleFreshDirect in NYC
FreshDirect faces a few strategic issues and problems in the expansion and development of their made to order grocery delivery system. While the company focused its efforts on cost reduction through...
View ArticleState of Greenwashing on this Earthday
Greenwashing, or the practice of marketing false claims of corporate responsibility is a response to growing consumer trends of conscious buying, specifically tailored to exploit this burgeoning...
View ArticleHealthcare in the Design World
The consensus seems to be that we must move towards a simplification of our health care processes. Today, at PSFK, I noticed that there were two companies discussing the future of healthcare in the...
View ArticleThe Courtship of Physical & Virtual
Today, I went to an event by the founders of PSFK, called likemind. It was a "coffee meetup" to be held today, June 19, 2009, in over 40+ countries. I only knew about it, because of my virtual self. My...
View ArticleAn ever more reason why the internet is a drug
Recently reading this amazing article in Slate magazine, about how the internet, and its various means of "search" are merely the devils tools. Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are nothing more than...
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