DESIGN CULTURE NOW, national design triennial

accelerated change

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.” R. Buckminster Fuller

“The US, like other nations of the world, faces many social, economic, and environmental problems. As people trained to bridge the gam between technology, science, art , and the humanities, designers are in a unique poison to be a powerful force for positive change.” Diane Pilgrim

“In collage, discrete elements remain visually distinct. The juxtaposition and overlap of individual parts spur fresh insight. Mutations fuse discrete elements into new entities. In the process of becoming something else forms meld to assume identities that bear few traces of their constituent parts. Mutations are a gens of change; their transformations suggest latent possibilities.” Donald Albrecht

“Enormous opportunities for the design profession are being driven by the possibility  to meaningfully combine features, objects, materials, technologies, and ideas previously considered to be separate. THere are more unions of content and commerce than at any other point in history…As combinatory thing becomes the new norm, design –an intrinsically hybrid practice merging the conflicting needs of art, business, and engineering–will be on tis way toward total infiltration of human environments.” Steven Skov Holt

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.” R. Buckminster Fuller

“Biomimicry, a term often used in conjunction with design, represents a form of reverse engineering, with designers studying and copying the appearance and forms of natural organisms in offer to reproduce various processes and functions. The Nike Free Shoe, for example resulted when a group o Nike designers spent time exploring the physiognomy of the human food and sketching and studying the natural movements of animals.” Barbara J. Bloemink

DESIGN LIFE NOW, national design triennial

Pixar? pg 012

robots? 016

Seattle Central Library pg 022

music industry- mash up music, Girl Talk