Bask in this glory: A friend and colleague of mine at ID just sent me the NY Times’s most popular article for today, May 29, 2007, aptly titled:
“Design that Solves Problems for the World’s Poor“
Nice!
It references the Cooper Hewitt (which I visited earlier this year), Martin Fischer’s Kickstart, and has a small gallery that shows [...]
New recycling bins in Bucktown
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago announced that he wanted to make Chicago the Greenest city ever. It would appear that lately, steps have been taken to actually make this a possibility. For instance, recently our street (and many other streets in our neighborhood of Bucktown have [...]
Well, at long last, restaurants have decided to do the right thing. Start offering smaller portions, for a lower price. I really distaste eating out sometimes, when eateries have a tendency to give me mammoth sized entrees, frown at me when I want to share it with someone, and charge me [...]
So, I’ve started making my list of summertime goals and #3 on the list is get back to updating my blog on a regular basis.
I thought I’d have more time, since school is over, but that time is rapidly becoming filled with work. This summer, I am working on a research project here in [...]
Wow. It’s almost 2am, the night before a huge Strategy Conference that we (Institute of Design) are hosting at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I really should be sleeping right now, I know, but there is so much to be done and besides, I am excited to listen to the interesting speakers [...]
Sriram and Woojin at Charette
This past weekend, we had another design charette for Wonjoon Chung, a graduating PhD student at the Institute of Design who is leaving Chicago to teach in Canada.
It was similar to the first charette (We were again designing an object for the classroom, a desk). There are a [...]
Why on earth would I want a phone designed by Dwayne Wade??
Unless, of course, in his spare time outside of playing in the NBA, he is an interaction and usability expert.. and he graduated from the Institute of [...]