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 [...]
About
Hugh Graham does design strategy, research, and storytelling for corporations, non-profits, and community organizations.
Listening...
- Anna: This story was used in my English 111 (college) course. This should show how wise of an individual y [...]
- Larry: I found one of these today in Sumterville, Florida. This one is in good condition and in the shape o [...]
- Patricia: went grave reading tonight in a catholic cemetery in Austin, Texas and found many headstones (most o [...]
- 21 June 2011 – Gravestone Symbolism « Wells Family Genealogy: [...] ” Dum Tacet Clamat” “Though silent, he speaks” In cemeteries throughout the w [...]
- Thesaurus: This visual map is amazing. I'm looking on it near 20 minutes and it's still amazing for me! [...]
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