I have really been enjoying commuting to class on my new Marin Hamilton 29er. The simplicity of a single-speed bike is welcoming and the more relaxed geometry and fatter tires make for a more comfortable ride. One of my goals with this new bike was to get my gear off my back and onto the [...]
Last night I rode up to Atlanta with a some of the INDD faculty to hear Joyce Bromberg, Steelcase’s Director of WorkSpace Futures- Research, present to a joint group of the Atlanta IDSA and PDMA chapters at Newell Rubbermaid’s headquarters. Joyce delivered an awesome presentation where she revealed the methods and tools Steelcase uses to [...]
I blogged a while back about how uncomfortable the stools in the studio are to my aging back. With the help of my beautiful and awesome wife, I put together a stool cover to help relieve some of the discomfort of working at my drawing board for 6-8 hours at a time. This surprisingly effective [...]
Today Auburn’s student IDSA and AIGA chapters hosted what I believe was the the 30th annual Design Interaction Symposium (though no mention of this momentous anniversary was made). Paul Rossetto and Clayton Garrels of Kohler, Ken Musgrave of Dell and Terry Slaughter of the Slaughter Group all made presentations. While the Kohler and Dell presentations [...]
What you see here is the components that make up the 8 watt MR16 LED lamp that I used to replace the halogen bulb in my DIY bike light. I took it apart because I found that the beam pattern was all wrong for commuting. Now worries, though. Remember the old prototypers’ credo “fail early [...]
