Skip Conversions

I don't know much about these, but from what I gather, I think they have these big yellowy things called "skips" in England that are parked out in the street and that no one really likes (get in the way of parking, eyesore, etc). People are now manipulating them to be more useful - not sure if it is individuals or a group. (I can't seem to imagine what it is they the actual skips are used for, either.)

Just thought it was interesting and am hoping this blog will become a bit more popular. :)

Check it out:
http://www.oliverbishopyoung.co.uk/conversions.html

Board Diagrams

Wade Davis: the richness of the ethnosphere

This TED conference talk from 2003 has some very interesting themes in it about the relationship of culture, language, religion, and artifact (which we could interpret as design). This is also a great excuse to introduce you all to the TED conference talks, which have just recently begun being televised.
This link is via Boing Boing, one of the most popular blogs on earth.

Day One: Images

During our discussion of "What is design", we wrote some notes on the board. Here are images of the 3 boards as they were at the end of class:

Day One: Videos

Today in class, we looked at the following videos in our exploration of "What is design":

A conversation with Milton Glaser, iconographer extraordinaire:



A documentary about Jane Mcgonigal's Cruel 2B Kind:



We also looked at a video about Reverse Grafitti (This one is slightly more informative than the one we watched in class:



Finally, we looked at a video from a group of scientists at Princeton who are researching vulnerabilities of voting machine technology: