Thursday, December 19, 2013

Chapter 5

page 160-193

researched: 

Doug Powell

Doug Powell is a designer and studio lead at IBM in Austin, Texas where he is helping to build the vision for IBM Design, a global effort to bring design into one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Prior to joining IBM in 2013, Powell was an independent designer, strategist and entrepreneur leading successful projects for a wide range of clients and collaborative partners in health and nutrition, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LifeScan and Pepsico. He recently served as consulting creative director for HealthSimple, working in close collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Global Design team.

Powell is the immediate past national president of AIGA. He has been a leading force in the successful launch of Design for Good, the AIGA initiative to ignite, amplify and accelerate design-driven social change.

A 1988 graduate of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Powell is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues, having presented at a variety of national conferences and forums including “Bright Ideas” on Minnesota Public Radio, the 2011 Mayo Clinic “Transform” conference and the 2012 TEDx ArtCenter. (http://www.aiga.org/about-board-bios/)


Watch Doug Powell speak in TEDx:
http://youtu.be/B-7y23DQurE



Watch Rick Valicenti speak in TEDx:
http://youtu.be/YLJ1ONtaAGo







Friday, December 13, 2013

Sampling and remixing


 Pages 147-159

•This part discusses the legitimacy of design authorship through sampling, appropriating, parodying, or copying.
•Digital media have erased the distinctions between original and copy.

•William Mitchell's definition of :
-Autographic: artforms that are unique, created in a single instance, and difficult to reproduce without degredation, like a painting.
-Allographic: artforms that are notational and performative, like sheet music or a theatrical script, original both in their conception and in their subsequent performance.

Interviewed:
Warren Lehrer
Johanna Drucker



Friday, December 6, 2013

The Art-Design Zone

page 138-145

"All art is quite useless" -Oscar Wilde

The reading discusses the difference between art and design concerning function. Art has no function, and design is useful. The reading questions  whether design is becoming less useful, a desire over need.
The reading includes Ryan McGinnes and Paula Scher's thoughts on design and art functionality.