Design Conversations

YouTube Founder Chad Hurley Speaks at RCA's Innovation Night Posted by Micah Walter, on Wednesday July 14, 2010 The Royal College of Art and Innovation has posted a new video as part of their “Innovation Night” event. This year, guest speaker Chad Hurley, founder and CEO of YouTube.com talks about building one of the top ten web services in less than a year. YouTube, Chad Hurley, founder, Royal College of Art, RCA, innovation, innovation night, 2010, Show RCA, degree show, InnovationRCA
The Product Nutrition Label Revealed: Q+A with Joe Gebbia Posted by Alan Rapp, on Tuesday July 13, 2010 Joe Gebbia is a San Francisco-based industrial designer and self-described “designtrepreneur,” as well as founding partner of the green materials consultancy Ecolect. Joe Gebbia, Industrial Designer, Ecolect, sustainable, practices, gap, reliable, Information, consistent, standards, evaluation, assessment, materials, manufacturers, Product Nutrition Label, sustainability, index, lifecycle, Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, footprint, verifications, qualitative, USDA nutrition label, context, optimize, transparent, Europe, GreenBox, subscription, inspiration, Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition
The Product Nutrition Label Revealed: Q+A with Joe Gebbia Posted by Alan Rapp, on Tuesday July 13, 2010 Joe Gebbia is a San Francisco-based industrial designer and self-described “designtrepreneur,” as well as founding partner of the green materials consultancy Ecolect. Joe Gebbia, Industrial Designer, Ecolect, sustainable, practices, gap, reliable, Information, consistent, standards, evaluation, assessment, materials, manufacturers, Product Nutrition Label, sustainability, index, lifecycle, Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, footprint, verifications, qualitative, USDA nutrition label, context, optimize, transparent, Europe, GreenBox, subscription, inspiration, Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition
Goodbye Parking Meter, Hello NYC Hoop Posted by Laura Forde, on Monday July 12, 2010 Janette Sadik-Khan, New York’s Transportation Commissioner, has transformed the city’s streetscape—ostensibly a change that directly impacts every resident and visitor to New York. New York City, NYC, NYC hoop, bicycle, bike, bike rack, CityRacks Design Competition, Department of Transportation, DOT, Google, Transportation Alternatives, cast metal, crossbar, footprint, parking meter
Goodbye Parking Meter, Hello NYC Hoop Posted by Laura Forde, on Monday July 12, 2010 Janette Sadik-Khan, New York’s Transportation Commissioner, has transformed the city’s streetscape—ostensibly a change that directly impacts every resident and visitor to New York. In less than three years, the New York City Department of Transportation has added hundreds of miles of bike lanes and dozens of pedestrian plazas. New York City, NYC, NYC hoop, bicycle, bike, bike rack, CityRacks Design Competition, Department of Transportation, DOT, Google, Transportation Alternatives, cast metal, crossbar, footprint, parking meter
Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones Posted by Angela Riechers, on Friday July 09, 2010 Over the next two weeks on the Cooper-Hewitt Design Blog, students from an interdisciplinary graduate-level course on the Triennial taught by the Triennial curatorial team blog their impressions and inspirations of the current exhibition,‘Why Design Now?’. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, death, mortality, Capsula Mundi, Anna Citelli, Raoul Bretzel, coffin, biodegradable, cornstarch, plastic, tree, eco-burial, cremation, ashes, Nadine Jarvis, bird-feeder, mold, materials
Watt Watchers Posted by Jenny Florence, on Thursday July 08, 2010 The PSA’s have been espousing “The More You Know” for two decades, and the designers in this year’s Triennial agree. Some of their most innovative designs are about becoming a little more aware of our nasty consumption habits. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, energy, power, consumption, usage, awareness, tracking, Interactive Institute, Power Aware cord, Magnus Gyllenswärd, Anton Gustafsson, light, illuminate, Energy Aware Clock, Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell, Jin Moen, watt
Students Blog the Triennial Posted by Matilda McQuaid, on Thursday July 08, 2010 This past Spring before the Triennial opened, we taught an interdisciplinary graduate-level course offered to MA students in Cooper-Hewitt’s Decorative Arts and Design History program and MFA students in the School of Visual Arts new Design Criticism program. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, graduate, course, interdisciplinary, MA, masters, Decorative Arts and Design History program, curating, blog posts
Learning Interaction Design Posted by Bill Moggridge, on Friday July 02, 2010 The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design offers a sophisticated post-experience program in interaction design, attracting students from Denmark and all over the world, as well as consulting with companies and organizations. Copenhagen, interaction, design, interactive, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, courses, education, teaching, learning, talk, context, Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, Gillian Crampton Smith, Royal College of Art, Computer Related Design, CRD, products, Interactive Design Institute Ivrea, IDII, Simona Maschi
Flying Liveries Posted by Bill Moggridge, on Wednesday June 30, 2010 When did you first see the Alitalia livery? It was designed by Walter Landor in 1967, working from his original headquarters, a retired ferryboat moored in San Francisco called The Klamath. Livery, airlines, Alitalia, Walter Landor, brands, visual, identity, Swissair, aircraft, airplane, Swiss, rectilinear, Zurich, San Francisco, 1967