Here are some of the video’s from the future of music project:

Patrick Duffy

Michael Hunter

Bernard ward

Aiden Quigley

DesignIntelligence selected Bob Fee as a role model for education leadership:  Well deserved!!

I met Bob in Savannah a few years ago and thought his way of looking at user experiences for inspiration was the best Design Method.

Also selected was Randy Bartlett from Auburn University. Randy orgainises a trip to Ireland every year for his students and visits us in about Easter time. We have a long standing relationship with the Auburn School of Architecture and Design. They have a great focus on drawing. Its great to see Randy getting this recognition. He has a great way of teaching drawing.

Here is a picture I took of Randy outside Jordan O Hare stadium in auburn University

Congratulations to both of them.

Interesting:

http://www.luminantdesign.com/who/people.html

There is something about good design that annoys me…i think it is the I am God aspect of it. I know better than you and this is the perfect system. Apple do that. Its annoying, maybe its just perfection that is annoying and the fascist persuit of perfection that irritates me. Swiss graphics have that quality. The modular world of apps on the iphone has the same problem…we have laid it out perfectly and there is an app for that. Of course Dieter Rams has it. So too does British Design in the 1950’s, remember the phrase “fitness for purpose”. All of those perfect design ideas make me just want to light a smoke, eat a burger, drink a rum and black and drive a 3 litre car with chrome on it. Here are the 10 commandments from Dieter: They are very sensible, I agree with them all but dont enjoy doing so.

1. Good design is innovative

2. Good design makes a product useful

3. Good design is aesthetic

4. Good design makes a product understandable

5. Good design is unobtrusive

6. Good design is honest

7. Good design is long lasting

8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail

9. Good design is environmentally-friendly

10. Good design is as little design as possible

http://www.flickr.com/groups/464886@N22/pool/

I also like (prefer) The Principles of Design by William Mayall

http://www.foylearts.net/ahutton/mobile/?p=413

http://www.foylearts.net/ahutton/mobile/?p=389

Here is an interesting post by andy rutledge

http://www.andyrutledge.com/creativity-is-not-design-test-2.php

It ties in very nicely with this post from the begining of semester

Design is rational – defendable

From Ukraines got talent: its about the German invasion of ukraine in ww2