Archive for January, 2008
The end of consumer culture?
In: Design| Environment| The Generalist
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 important [...]
STORY: at the metro center for visual arts
In: Art and Culture| Denver
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 design [...]
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Hugh Graham Creative provides design strategy, research, and storytelling for corporations, non-profits, and community organizations.
- Jim Davenport: Just a slight correction to the comment by Glen Moultrie. The Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co [...]
- Glen Moultrie: In looking through old cemetaries in Alabama I find many Woodman of the World upright tombstones. Th [...]
- Sara Bucaro: I'm interested in living in coHousing in the Denver area. I will be needing a place after Dec, 2009 [...]
- thomas: sebastien foucan is one of the original second generation founders of parkour! i know that sound stu [...]
- richwicks: If a "fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees", you must also conclude that a wise man sees [...]
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