Archive for January, 2008
The end of consumer culture?
30 Jan 2008Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself to provide value and sustainability while still creating desire? When I was at Northwestern, I took some classes from a Professor of Philosophy, David Michael Levin, who once asked us whether having a choice was [...]
STORY: at the metro center for visual arts
9 Jan 2008Hadley, along with Brent Green and James Surls, is exhibiting in the current show at the Metro State Center for Visual Art. Entitled “Story”, the exhibition “brings together three artists whose artwork has a tale to tell. The exhibition is a profound collection of works that delve into created realities and visually realized narratives of [...]
“what if?” design
In: Design
8 Jan 2008The Design Continuum Design rests on a continuum between production and innovation. Along this continuum, whether working in product, communication, or interaction, designers focus on providing a compelling experience, an experience that is useful, usable, and desirable (or, as the architect Vitruvius wrote in the first century BCE, firmitas, utilitas, venustas). In those realms of [...]
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Hugh Graham Creative provides design strategy, research, and storytelling for corporations, non-profits, and community organizations.
- Laura Simpson: Dear Historians, Fancy writing on Christmas Day! My small boy has just given me " a necklace with [...]
- tl: Tibor Kalman and at least one of his disciples, Sagmeister have wrestled with the foibles of materia [...]
- Vone Bowly: Would love to obtain a copy of the Pilgrim's Progress Map you have on your website - do you know whe [...]
- landy villalobos: i use to work there with my grandfather lupe carlin [...]
- Jim Davenport: Just a slight correction to the comment by Glen Moultrie. The Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co [...]
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