Ethnographic Perspectives on Design
Continuing my penchant for sharing reading lists (see my mislabeled “Books” category for more), here’s one sent out to an anthropology listserv I’m on for Ethnographic Perspectives on Design. I’m guessing Carl or Anne would have some others to add…
This will be brief
I’m in San Francisco, after visiting New Zealand, Boston/Cape Cod, Des Moines, and Kansas City since graduating a month ago. I should have announced it sooner, but I’m now midway into my first week as a User Interface Designer at Google, working alongside Kevin Fox and the rest of the UI Design team. I’m honored [...]
Now More Than Ever
As this is not my blog, I’m going to shy away from directly dealing with politics. But this event is too important not to pay attention too. ARTISTS SUBPOENAED IN USA PATRIOT ACT CASE Feds STILL unable to distinguish art from bioterrorism Grand jury to convene June 15 Three artists have been served subpoenas to [...]
Bioland
Steve Dietz has a nice synopsis of a dicussion Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby participated in entitled Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious. I am always impressed by Dunne + Raby’s work, it’s smart and well-executed. What’s more, I think it’s profoundly important for design to develop critical practices and discourse from within. And Dunne + [...]