All Blog Posts Tagged 'design' (22)

This week at Design Museum Boston's summer studio at WIT, the students presented their progress to the professors, as well as a local professional who is the vice-chair for the IDSA's Boston conference. Jordan Nollman stopped by to see the classes progress as well as assist with the process thus…

   This week, in the collaboration with the Design Museum Boston team the students at WIT got a chance to visit an ongoing exhibit, "Getting There" as well as making a lot of headway in producing their own. The class has been working hard on specific workflows to help lay the fundamental…

According to their website, "EngineerVsDesigner is the dankest product design podcast on the block" and we would have to agree. Listen to Adam (an industrial designer) and Josh (an designer/engineer) interview Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano, industrial designers/Co-Founders of Design Museum Boston. It's an interesting discussion on…

It was a whirlwind few days for the Design Museum Boston team at this year's AD 20/21 show, which had EVERYTHING for sale from modern to contemporary fine art, photography, jewelry, vintage and contemporary studio furniture, decorative arts,…

The producers of AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries are pleased to announce the dates of March 15-18, 2012 for their fifth annual show at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston's South End.  Building on the success of last year’s event, producers Tony Fusco and Robert Four will once again complement AD 20/21’s spectacular selection of 20th and 21st Century dealers in fine art, furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts with the 13th Annual Boston…

I've been writing the Trade Secrets column in New England Home for years. Lately, I've stumbled across some new technologies that are apparently so disruptive the role of architects and designers will become once again central, crucial. Not marginal in the sense that designers are there to make things 'look cool ' or 'pretty.' 

For example, Bill Porter (former MIT architecture head) and his partner  Brian Anderson are using a technology called HomeSeed that allows them to…

SHIFTBoston has kicked off their next big design competition focused on improving the region through design. Put your thinking caps on in support of a very cool and real-world project. From the site:

In support of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's …

Last night Sam and I checked out the Spring reviews for MassArt's Industrial Design program. Featuring work from the Junior and Senior class, the show contained a great cross section of work that really highlighted the wide variety of interests within the…

I don't know about you, but I'm obsessed with getting interesting information via email. Sure, it means I may wake up to 30 new messages in my inbox (but I might really NEED $75 worth of filet mignon!) but I'm far too lazy to scour the internet for the newest, coolest, and of course most relevant…

Most of us Westerners feel that anything made in China is cheap, either in price and/or quality. Nicely Made in China proves to inform us otherwise. Lionel Derimais, a photographer for over 30 years, is…

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WICKED PROBLEMS. We’re not talking about witches or nor’easters: we’re talking about design.

What is a wicked problem? Design is a wicked problem. It’s complex and ill-defined. It changes as you work on it; it evolves into new problems. There are no right and wrong answers in design—there are only better solutions.

How do you solve a wicked problem? Look at it from every angle. Explore it like…

Enjoy this well-written piece by Richard Watson, co-founder of…

WICKED PROBLEMS. WICKED SOLUTIONS.