27 março 2011

26 março 2011

25 março 2011

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21 março 2011

DESIGN BR


Conheça a Rede social  DESIGN BR, participe e seja também um patrocinador!

19 março 2011

Saul Griffith



O grande, genial, revolucionário e moderno Da Vinci, Saul Griffith, está na PEGN, vale a pena conhecer mais dele aqui no Brasil.
Não muito conhecido por aqui.

O artigo completo está em: PEGN

17 março 2011

Do mundo do design ao design do mundo

Da Futurista Rosa Alegria
O título desse artigo é uma inevitável referência ao designer canadense Bruce Mau, criador do conceito Massive Change, que me restrinjo a traduzir como “Mudança Maciça”. Mas como as palavras muitas vezes reduzem o verdadeiro e pleno sentido do significado, vou tentar traduzi-lo no decorrer deste artigo e compartilhar com os leitores o que isso representa para a nossa mudança positiva na relação com o ambiente que nos envolve.

11 março 2011

Blog Chapa Branca



O blog chapa branca traz downloads muito interessantes para designers.

http://comunicacaochapabranca.com.br/?page_id=1202

10 março 2011

Manual de Oslo

MANUAL DE OSLO

DIRETRIZES PARA COLETA E INTERPRETAÇÃO DE DADOS SOBRE A INOVAÇÃO.

08 março 2011

Doe parte de sua fortuna..


Só lá nos Estados Unidos, por aqui quem se habilita a doar parte de sua fortuna?

http://givingpledge.org/

06 março 2011

HuffPost Green


                                    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/green/

Mindless

"My intelligence is in the cloud. My life is in the cloud. My friends, photographs, ideas and mail. My life. My mind. Take away my cloud and I am left mindless."

From the article of Don Norman:

I_have_seen_the_future_and_i_am_opposed

03 março 2011

World Changing 2.0

Já saiu a nova versão revisada e atualizada, mais info:

" We are extremely pleased to be able to announce the new edition of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, to be released this spring (and already available for discount pre-order at Powell's, Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon).

We struggled with whether to even call this book a new edition, rather than a new book: over half of the entries are new and most have been updated. While we weren't able to start completely from scratch (as in an ideal world one might when trying to cover so vast a range of topic), we do feel that we've been really successful in bringing many of the newest worldchanging ideas to the page.
Bright green business, carbon neutral cities, passivhaus green building, product backstories, post-ownership, planetary futurism, green infrastructure, deep walkability, parallel collaboration, product-service systems, zero waste communities, retrofitting the ruins of the unsustainable... it's all in there.
This is really, in many ways, the definitive statement of the Worldchanging solutions set (or as close as we can get).


The book comes with a foreword by Van Jones and an introduction by Bill McKibben, as well as with a detailed bibliography and index. The design, again, was created by our friend Stefan Sagmeister. We think Abrams has again made a beautiful book.


As with our last book, we're depending on word of mouth and reader recommendations to spread the word. So we hope that you'll share this news with others (blog it, tweet it, mention it on Facebook, or just tell your friends you're excited to read it). Once you've had a chance to read the book, we'd appreciate your positive reviews on all these sites, as well, of course."


Cover of Worldchanging book designed by Sagmeister Inc.


02 março 2011

Sustainism


Sustainism is the New Modernism


March 1, 2011
Levent OZLER


Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity - towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital and more sustainable.

As the authors of this clear-eyed manifesto argue, "Sustainism marks a shift not only in thinking and doing but in collective perception - of how we live, do business, feed ourselves, design, travel and communicate, as much as how we deal with nature."

In the twentieth century, whether we knew it or not, our world was shaped by modernist values, from the design of our cities to our homes, technologies and our conceptions of progress.
Sustainism recasts our relationship to all of these things, binding ecological issues to a larger picture of our world.


Through a series of graphically dynamic aphorisms, quotes and symbols designed for worldwide use by businesses, individuals and institutions, to signal support for sustainism, Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers show how the movement is already reshaping global culture, technology, food and media.


With this concise manifesto, they launch the term sustainism into the public consciousness.

From: http://www.dexigner.com/

The book:
http://astore.amazon.com/dexigner-20/detail/1935202227

Editorial Reviews

Review

Here's the skinny. Modernism is dead, and design needs a new "ism" to define it. Whatever that "ism" turns out to be, it needs to be all of the following: ethically and environmentally responsible; socially and geographically inclusive; collaborative; networked; sensitive to nature; and savvy enough to make the most of: a) leaps in technology, and b) both globalism and localism.

Sounds sensible? Sure, if rather familiar. There have already been several attempts to categorize this new approach to design as "the new design," "sustainable design" and part of the cultural movements of "polymodernism," "supermodernism," "super-hybridity" and so on. A book to be published next month is proposing another new "ism" -- "Sustainism."

Written by the cultural theorist Michiel Schwarz and the designer Joost Elffers, "Sustainism Is the New Modernism" bills itself as a "cultural manifesto" that proposes "a new vocabulary and a symbolic language for a new era." The result is more like a branding exercise than a conventional book. It identifies the principle elements of Sustainism -- responsible, inclusive, collaborative plus all of the other virtues cited above -- and presents them as a brief statements and slogans illustrated by different typefaces and specially created graphic symbols.

Alice Rawsthorn, International Herald Tribune, January 9, 2011