Thanks again for the time you took out of your day to stop by.

Wish you all the best on your industrial design endeavors.

Friday, usually is a day where Twitter users recommend someone they follow to those that follow them. I’m posting my Follow Friday here, just for fun. I started a small list of Industrial Designers on Twitter, you’re welcome to follow the list or pick individuals out. If you’re not on the list (and you’re a designer) don’t get offended, I just haven’t added you yet. Let me know in the comments section or by email, and I’ll add you right away.

http://twitter.com/robjensendesign/industrial-design

I’ve always admired Scott Robertson’s entertainment design. His work features off-the-wall crazy concepts with dead-eye perspective, and brilliant realism. If you haven’t heard of him or haven’t seen his work, take a second and check him out. I’m sure you’ll be inspired too.

• Scott’s Drawthrough website
• Scott’s Drawthrough blog
• Scott’s Drive book project

I’ve retired to the notion, I’ll never overcome it.

Enjoy!

For more about this video, here’s the original posting on Wallpaper

Every designer should do a sketch-a-day, then post it to the world, including myself.

Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. -Leisa Reichelt

Leisa is a Freelance User Experience Designer & Researcher.  I’ve just started following her on twitter and have been impressed with her insights into user interactions. You can follow her blog at http://www.disambiguity.com/

FZD School of Design

image from fzdschool.com

I believe design should make the world better. It should serve people.
It should make things stronger, faster, clearer—and cheaper. It
should surprise. It should engage. It should delight.
I believe design is a collaborative process. In that sense, design is
political. It is a sort of discussion. And the designer’s role is to help
facilitate the discussion. The traditional tools of drawing and prototyping
are remarkably helpful in this role. Sometimes the subject of
the discussion is abstract. In such times, designers must be able
to prototype abstractions—they must be able to create models,
which are simply tools for thinking.
I believe designers should root their work in the context of its
use. We must understand our audience. Who are they? What do
they believe? What do they want? At the same time, we must
understand the economic systems and technologies which make
products possible. All three equations—audience, business, and
technology—must be solved simultaneously.

Click here to view the entire interview with Hugh Dubberly, “Becoming a Digital Designer” article.

I watched this first on Design Sojourn’s site, and loved it. Thought I’d share it here too.

Where do new ideas come from? This film is about design strategists and how they identify the right ideas. It was produced by the global innovation consultancy Continuum.

Photo Courtesy of UC Engineers Without Borders via www.newsrecord.org

I found this story today and wanted to share. It’s about a group of students and faculty from the University of Cincinnati, some engineers and an industrial design student, who have been working on an amazing service for 3 years. Here is a short snippet from University of Cincinnati’s online student newspaper site;

After the sun had finally set, a group of eight friends sat with their mentor under a tree.

“How does all of this make you feel?” asked Dan Oerther, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati.

While Jordan Vogt, a fifth-year civil engineering student went on and on about two water tanks he had been working on the entire day, the other students he’d grown close to knew that wasn’t all that was on his mind.

The devastation, the poverty, the overall poor health of 500 villagers in Otho Abwao, Kenya, had struck a nerve.

“He was saying, ‘We’re just students; why isn’t every corporation in the world doing the exact same thing? Why wasn’t our entire project funded by someone who should be doing this?’ ” said Neil Schaner, a fifth-year engineering student, of Vogt’s frustration.

Earlier that same day, working on top of a hill to inspect the two concrete tanks that Vogt designed years earlier while halfway around the world, an elderly man, about 70 years old, walked up to him. He took Vogt’s hand in his own and, using the little English he knew, nearly caused Vogt to break down.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” the man said.

This is a must read, for the complete article click here.

Also if you’re interested here is the link to Engineers Without Borders

There’s probably many of us who are reaching out to help others in need, but I’m sure we could all do little more.