A sobering conversation on the furute with AI.
Monday, November 18, 2024
Friday, October 04, 2024
Exhibition: CHARACTERS: Type in Action at the Museum of Design (Atlanta)
The power of typography is demonstrated in an exhibition using the stories of historical figures to communicate and impower.The Museum of Design Atlanta located at 1315 Peachtree St. NE Atlanta, GA 30309.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
An American Architect- A Conversation with Frank Llyold Wright
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright discuss the being off his career, the definition of Organic and Skyscrapers.
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Monday, September 23, 2024
The Magazine like the Album Continues to Morph - What are They Now?
The magazine much like the album, held a special place in culture especially for communication through imagery, often note by graphic designers as their inspiration for entering the profession.
As society has moved into the digital era these useful symbols of communication and commerce have suffered but surprisingly have not disappeared completely.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Book: Here/Where the Black Designers Are - Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller
Saturday, September 07, 2024
Fashion Design: 25 Influential Postwar Men’s Wear Collections
The history of fashion is considered in this NYTimes article:
25 Most Influential Men’s Wear Collections
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
The Origin of: Form Follows Function
The evolution of the classic line: Form Follows Function, its definition has changed over time embodying the evolving ethos of the profession
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Book: Barcode by Jordan Frith (Author)
Barcodes bridged the gap between physical objects and digital databases and paved the way for the contemporary Internet of Things, the idea to connect all devices to the web. They were highly controversial at points, protested by consumer groups and labor unions, and used as a symbol of dystopian capitalism and surveillance in science fiction and art installations. This book tells the story of the barcode's complicated history and examines how an object so crucial to so many parts of our lives became more ignored and more ordinary as it spread throughout the world.
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Friday, July 26, 2024
Fashion Designer: Takkahiro Miyashita
Rarely do I cover fashion design topics but the video below is informative on many levels to share here.
The YouTube channel The Casual is an excellent source of fashion insights.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Thursday, July 04, 2024
The Legacy of Virgil Abloh
Virgil Abloh defined design of the new century. Born in 1980 and died in 2019 his life and designs embodied the language of the digital generation and the democratization of design.
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Book: The World History of Design - Victor Magolin
The latest entry to my design library is the two volume series entitled the World History of Design. This thoughtful look at design historic origins will without doubt supplement my course on the same subject.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Chair_One
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Norman Teague: Designer and Educator in Chicago
The design community in Chicago is vibrant and active in bringing cultural ideas into reality. Norman Teague is building on the histories of Chicago and Africa past to inspire and remind us of the world’s connections.
Friday, June 14, 2024
World Expo 2025 - Osaka Japan
The first World Fair was in 1851 when Great Britain invited the world to witness the innovations of the Industrial Revolution. This marked a shift in how humanity would function moving from agricultural to industrial driven economies.
And so it expected that Asia and Japan specifically technological and economic influence will demonstrate where humanity has the potential to go…
Designing Future Society for Our Lives.
Official Site for World Expo 2025
USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
Saturday, June 08, 2024
Swiss Design - It’s Origin and History
How Swiss designs embraced the principles of modernism at the time the world was reshaped by World War II.
A scientific approach, Clarity, Structure, Function and a philosophy of Less was More defined an era.
The Evolution of the Washing Machine - Japan
Domestic appliances have made life so much more convenient by removing so of the drudgery from routine task, none more then laundry. The history of the washing machine, in Japan, proves this point.
Sunday, June 02, 2024
Architecture: The Musuem of the Future
This is a striking structure and raises a few questions: Who designed it? What is it? And Where is it?
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype: C. Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died on Friday at his home in Coronado, Calif. He was 89.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024
It’s Time to Replace the Mop and Bucket Method of Floor Cleaning
Dyson comes to the rescue, with the introduction of its wet floor cleaner. Just as I was thinking that why must I use a bucket and mop to clean hard surface floors which I feel is far to much effort and mess for the small areas I need to maintain specifically the kitchen and bathroom floors.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Ease of Use is Good Design
As product become more complex the designer must work to achieve simplicity in the user experience, failure to do so often results in users dissatisfaction and a barrier to the products success.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Product Design and Business Development in age of the Internet
The ease to which a product can be brought to market is significantly easier than ever...
What happens when the digital content creator partners with a product incubator to develop and market directly through the internet to millions of followers.
We will be able to track how one of the most successful YouTube reviewer of tech products, Marques Brownlee, joins Ridge.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
How Design Can Be Used as Proganda
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Product Designer: Yinka Ilori
Sunday, January 07, 2024
Friday, December 29, 2023
Fashion Design in Africa - Growing and Diverse
The growing influence of the creative in fashion design on the continent of Africa is reflective of new generation using social media tools to develop their voice and brand beyond their borders
Friday, December 15, 2023
Architecture:Jeanne Gang on why flow matters
Arguably the most accomplished female architect of the 21st century, Jeanne Gang and her Chicago based firm Studio Gang are getting noticed by the work they are creating.
Monday, December 11, 2023
Logo Design: NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) insignia 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
In 1974, as part of the Federal Graphics Improvement Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, NASA hired Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn to design a more modern logo.
NYTimes Article: How NASA Learned to Love it Logo
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
The Transistor the foundation of the Third Industrial Revolution
The first transistor created at Bell Labs in 1956, securing a Nobel Prize for their research.
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 the microprocessor
the introduction of semiconductors sparked a revolution in electronics on par with that of steel and steam engines in the Industrial Revolution.
The First African Tech Company to be Sold on Wall St.
The opportunity of providing design solutions across the continent of Africa is enormous, but how to execute will be the question many will be seeking to answer over the next decade.