tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361276592024-03-17T23:03:48.642-04:00Design Thinking: History, Theory, Technology and PracticeThis blog is intended to serve as a repository for issues related to Design and a forum for this designer to share his perspective on the factors that have and are shaping the profession.
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Contact: myroncurtissmith@hotmail.comMyron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.comBlogger1078125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-69902045715391562722024-02-21T10:10:00.005-05:002024-02-21T10:10:43.486-05:00How Design Can Be Used as Proganda<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The power of design to shape perceptions and behavior, let us be mindful of the ability to create beautiful outcomes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9h2Z0I2jxRU" width="320" youtube-src-id="9h2Z0I2jxRU"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-2175015576184201182024-01-09T18:36:00.000-05:002024-01-09T18:36:14.253-05:00Product Designer: Yinka Ilori<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: FuturaPT-Medium;">A British-Nigerian </span><span style="font-family: FuturaPT-Medium;">multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage.</span></span><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: FuturaPT-Medium;"><a href="https://yinkailori.com">Yinka Ilori Website</a></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Yinka Ilori Brings Craft and Colour to the Conran Shop - Culture" aria-hidden="false" class="sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb" jsaction="VQAsE" jsname="kn3ccd" src="https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Yinka-Ilori.jpg" style="height: 373px; margin: 0px; max-width: 1920px; width: 559px;" /></div><div><br /></div></div><span style="background-color: #fcb43b; font-family: FuturaPT-Medium;"></span></div></div>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-60529016393148415252024-01-07T20:46:00.001-05:002024-01-07T20:46:35.588-05:00Contemporary Artist Jean Michael Basquit Explained<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curved text (the "worm") was retired from official use from May 22, 1992, until April 3, 2020, when it was reinstated as a secondary logo</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">In 1974, as part of the Federal Graphics Improvement Program of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" style="background-image: none; color: #795cb2; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, NASA hired Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn to design a more modern logo.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/science/nasa-logo-worm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.jnJ1.FtkdJrcA4GdZ&smid=url-share">NYTimes Article: How NASA Learned to Love it Logo</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/science/nasa-logo-worm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.jnJ1.FtkdJrcA4GdZ&smid=url-share"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The first transistor created at Bell Labs in 1956, securing a Nobel Prize for their research.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: #202124; caret-color: rgb(189, 193, 198); color: #bdc1c6; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(189, 193, 198); font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The first generation of computers depended upon the invention of vacuum tubes; for the second generation it was transistors; for the third, it was the integrated circuit; and the fourth generation of computers came about after the invention of </span><span style="font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the microprocessor</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(66, 133, 244, 0.3); color: #e2eeff; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(66, 133, 244, 0.3); color: #e2eeff; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">t</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">he introduction of semiconductors sparked a revolution in electronics on par with that of steel and steam engines in the Industrial Revolution.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The introduction of the first shoe from<span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"> JEMS a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.01312rem;">Black-owned shoe factory based in the United States.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.printmag.com/podcasts/2023/best-of-design-matters-dr-dwayne-edwards/">Interview with Dr. D’Wayne Edwards</a> <div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586616105/how-dwayne-edwards-became-a-sneaker-legend">How D'Wayne Edwards Became A Sneaker Legend</a> <div><a href="https://pensolelewiscollege.com">Pensole Lewis College</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfL8HDjX5DHD0nA6CvFfbVHZmIqR_f5L7khPfdlHN6LrKtvUFT_-uQFG8lVvOfHrcDWHSRJx8gCB5yOYQuy6LsmnzST2Bvj5pg4n9Qd3yooC5pOvvcBVR6eRp6oN0VKGNG6X-FZ_fBlb9KaOUiEL1QK1GScbShMG6wHh-oHSVjdBGeTqxgcilnw/s1200/JEM-shoe-factory.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfL8HDjX5DHD0nA6CvFfbVHZmIqR_f5L7khPfdlHN6LrKtvUFT_-uQFG8lVvOfHrcDWHSRJx8gCB5yOYQuy6LsmnzST2Bvj5pg4n9Qd3yooC5pOvvcBVR6eRp6oN0VKGNG6X-FZ_fBlb9KaOUiEL1QK1GScbShMG6wHh-oHSVjdBGeTqxgcilnw/w339-h320/JEM-shoe-factory.jpeg" width="339" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-49082584102143581202023-09-01T11:14:00.004-04:002023-09-01T15:05:09.974-04:00Architect: (Diebedo) Francis KéréThe 2022 Pritzker Prize Award winner for the work created to improve life in his home village of XXX in Burkina Faso in Western Africa.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7V9021K58qtFz7oE8VDGC1yBkpKwNPml5G4kzj7TOqsiKXHen2WfTDGvhiKbpLlbNi0c9_b8lal9_KnR6fgIw5rBJxYzYYAe96KEMrGBXKY7g0HyK_mmW4eJIYIv1Qy7ayeh-lPopQemKMIcH3Z2oaleIWfDJH-1x54przYTRvXrq2EQpSyDN6w/s640/Francis-Ke%CC%81re%CC%81-Portrait-@-Lars-Borges-480x640.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7V9021K58qtFz7oE8VDGC1yBkpKwNPml5G4kzj7TOqsiKXHen2WfTDGvhiKbpLlbNi0c9_b8lal9_KnR6fgIw5rBJxYzYYAe96KEMrGBXKY7g0HyK_mmW4eJIYIv1Qy7ayeh-lPopQemKMIcH3Z2oaleIWfDJH-1x54przYTRvXrq2EQpSyDN6w/s320/Francis-Ke%CC%81re%CC%81-Portrait-@-Lars-Borges-480x640.jpeg"/></a></div>
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Finally, where are the design opportunities?
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<a href="https://metropolismag.com/profiles/how-can-we-decolonize-design/">Article: How to Decolonize Design</a>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-56877975664134047472023-07-21T06:49:00.002-04:002023-07-21T06:49:33.440-04:00Design Education: African Futures Institute Lesley Lokko a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, sets out to tackle global issues through her new school in Accra Ghana.
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</div><a href="https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/lesley-lokko-is-africa-the-laboratory-of-the-future">Wallpaper Article: Lesley Lokko on decolonisation, decarbonisation and diversity</a>
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Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-42953463246625887682023-06-19T10:41:00.001-04:002023-06-19T10:41:50.819-04:00Architect History: Paul Revere WilliamsOne of his many noted accomplishment was being the first African American Architects to become a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Often called the architect of Hollywood, Paul William designed homes throughout Los Angeles for the celabriies of the time.
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<a href="https://www.wallpaper.com/design/jony-ive-marc-newson-lovefrom-partnership-with-ferrari">Wallpaper Article</a>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-13531377520277097412023-04-02T21:06:00.001-04:002023-04-02T21:06:37.789-04:00Industrial Designer - Noel MayoAs the first African American to lead an industrial design firm, Noel Mayo's career has mentored many and continues to impact the profession.
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<a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/noel-mayo-39">History Makers</a>
<a href="http://noelmayo.com/#">Noel Mayo Associates</a>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-90963915601384776852023-03-12T13:14:00.000-04:002023-03-12T13:14:08.214-04:00Recognizing and Reclaiming the Contributions of Black CreativesA beautiful thing is happening that is a legitmite effort to bring to light the contributions and talents of many that have long been ignored the black creative.
Two article appearing the New York Times demonstrates this enlightenment.
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/style/black-home-interior-design.html?smid=url-share">The Interior Lives of Black Homes</a>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/style/black-designers.html?smid=url-share">Putting Black Design in the Spotlight</a>Myron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828611041391100924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36127659.post-39708325054204495092023-02-22T21:11:00.003-05:002023-02-22T22:41:02.010-05:00Building A Better Future The Work and Legacy of Five African American ArchitectsDocumenting the contributions of African American Architects has become part of the work of the Smithosian Musuem.
"Pioneering African American architects, such as Harold L. Williams, Norma Merrick Sklarek, and John S. Chase, expanded the profession and paved the way for a new generation, including Philip G. Freelon and Michael Marshall."
<a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/building-better-future">National Musuem of African American History and Culture</a>
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