This a beautiful music video for the musician Passion Pit and uses kinetic sculptures. It is directed by The Wilderness, a consortium of independent designers who work together to create amazing motion graphic projects.
Alberto Seveso has some really unique design aesthetics, mixing photos with graphic.
Orla Kelly has the extremely well executed sense of style, vintage modern without being predictable.
A co-worker of mine went to a PDMA-IDSA event presented by Steelcase. It covered their observational research methods. They gave everyone at the presentation a notebook that their researchers take with them to do
I’ve been really impressed by the PDMA (Product Development and Management Association) lately. They have had some great conferences and free webinars. This most recent webinar covered the topic of product portfolio management and was very interesting. Portfolio Management: Accelerate Innovation to Drive Business ResultsClick here to download a .pdf of the slide show presentation, and click to go the PDMA website where you can listen to the rebroadcast by entering your contact information.
I really enjoy the work of Loeffler Randall. I love how his pieces seem to effortlessly wrap around people. When you go to his site make sure to pay attention to some of the interesting details he puts on shoes.
Ivana Helsinki has created quite a mood around her work on her website. I think I enjoyed her website as much as her work. When you visit her site, make sure the volume on your computer is up.
I recently attended the Georgia Chapter PDMA Summit 2008 that discussed the Politics of Innovation. It was fantastically practical with great speakers. You can download their presentations by clicking here.
My favorite speaker was David Owens, Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University and former CEO of Griffin Technology. He had the great thesis that “creative people must be stopped” and he fought against “thinking outside the box”. My hope is that he will one day be able to erase that cliche from the face of the earth. What David Owens is getting at in terms of product development is that thinking outside the box make no sense because the constraints of “the box” are good constraints can be agreed upon, measured, offer focus, and constraints drive adoption. Designers fight back with constraints because by the time you design a product that fits all the constraints you end up with a puny idea that is not all that interesting. David Owens then jumps in with what he considers a the drive to innovation. Owens says that innovation doesn’t come from coming up with wacky ideas outside of constraints, he instead encourages designers to find ways to expand your constraints. When your constraints are broader, your ideas have more room to grow (see his diagram below).
Callum Innes does not have a website that I can find where we can browse through his work with any sort of organization. It’s a shame because his work is gorgeous. The best option I could find is with Google Image Search (thank you Google).
Anyhow, I click on the images below to be take to the Google Gallery.
The Guardian Art and Design Blog had an interesting article that used Callum Innes as a center piece of discussion. The writer proposed that art did not have to shocking to be progressive - something I feel I agree with and would love see a return to a time when art was art and not a carnival quest to push the line of offensiveness or weirdness.
I’m in a kick of looking at to the past of art. In the process of my looking I ran across this great story about Mark Rothko’s paintings commissioned for the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan. Click here to view an excerpt from an unknown documentary on the paintings.
If you’d rather read about click here to be taken to a story from Guardian.
