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Action Method : Quick Review

cordbowen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:45:27 +0000

So it’s been a few months now and after reading the book Making Ideas Happen, I thought I’d write about how we put the books proposed Action Method to a test. Both myself and Sophia, my partner at Local Design Office have been using the system.

The Action Method is a practice of organizing and motivating yourself by prioritizing action based tasks. Pretty Simple. Everything you write down must be a task with an action. This keeps you focused on progress.

First off the book alone (Making Ideas Happen) was worth the read. Scott Belsky put down some great research and practice based thoughts on how creatives can achieve their potential. The research alone was incredibly interesting with examples spanning a good chunk of the creative industry.

My thoughts: It works for us .. and the great part is the systems ability to fit any method of documenting tasks. In other words, you don’t have to use the software to use the Action Method. **I will say though that we love the software and it fits us well.

For Designers: Any way to organize and not feel confined or slowed is a plus. The method is low maintenance and completely customizable for any creative type.

Bridging the Gap: As I always say .. it’s not enough to be creative.. you’ve got to understand the other side. Knowing your business and keeping it straight is the key to creative freedom.

Lecture 10: The Other Side

cordbowen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:09:03 +0000

Discussed Today:

Photo Winner: Jose Madrid (see photo below)

Intro Image: Dulux, Let’s Color | Fernanda Romano | link

Book of the week: Making Ideas Happen | link

Website of the week: Core77 | Industrial Designer Resource | link

News: Machine Project | Adaptive Reuse | link

Architecture: Ten Arquitectos: Enrique Norton | National Laboratory of Genomics | link

Industrial Design: Jaime Hayon | link

What other designers are doing: Marc Atlon | link

*Quick Note: It’s the end of the semester and if you are here and reading this, congratulations, you are truly inquisitive and are on the right path to a well rounded design career. Good luck in your future endeavors and I enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you this semester. Have a great summer! -cord

Lecture 09: Industrial Design and other stuff

cordbowen — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:35:35 +0000

Discussed Today:

Intro Image: Field Chapel in Boedigheim | Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology | link

Video: Botanist | White Canvas | link

Book of the week: Sagmeister: Made You Look

Magazine of the week: eVolvo magazine | link

Website of the week: Kuhler | Color Theory | link

Lecture 08: Dieter Rams and Sanaa

cordbowen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:38:51 +0000

Discussed Today:

Video: Archiculture | link

Books of the week: 1. The Function of Ornament | Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo
2. Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Architect: Sanaa
Industrial Designer: Dieter Rams

Lecture 07: Infosthetics and other stuff

cordbowen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:54:40 +0000

Discussed Today:

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro | link
Industrial Designer: Shane Schneck | link

Todays Topic: The Space In Between Design

Lecture 06: Contemplating the Void

cordbowen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:08:58 +0000

Todays topics:

Architect: Marc Frohn | FAR Architects | link
Industrial Design Studio: Droog | link
Industrial Designer: Paolo Ulian | link

Lecture 05: Design as a Definition

cordbowen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:34:57 +0000

Todays topics:

Intro Image: Polish Graffiti | link
Book of the week: NeubauWelt | link
Website of the week: 70 free fonts for designers | link
News: Alfa Romeo Pandio | link

Architect: David Adjaye
Industrial Designer: Michael Young

Topic: Design as a definition – Are you designing for yourself or the project?

Lecture 04: Objectified

cordbowen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:38:40 +0000

This week we will watch the movie Objectified.
More information here.

Lecture 03: Your Design Education

cordbowen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:37:14 +0000

Discussed Today:

Book of the week: World Changing, Alex Steffen (Amazon)

Website of the week: Archinect – www.archinect.com

News: Bjarke Ingles designs a chair as a collaboration with KIBISI.

Architecture: The High Line – Diller Scofidio + Renfro | website/movie

Industrial Design: Elisa Strozyk – from Designboom.

Today’s topic: Your Design Education – Ken Robinson – TED movie

Lecture 02: Immersion

cordbowen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:30:11 +0000

A lot of information today…

Things to remember:

-Video: Blue and David Ellis, Link
-Haiti: The reponsibilities of a designer
-Book: Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough
-Website: Gigposters
-Architecture: BIG, website
-Industrial Design: Ran Amitai (via www.designboom.com)
-Topic: Blogs, Google Reader and … here is a list of mentioned blogs + the comic link

Archdaily
Architecturemnp
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Inhabitat
Super Colossal
Designboom
BldgBlog
City of Sound
Dezeen

-see you next week!