Trust the rope
Industrial designers can’t help but evaluate any product’s ability to do its job. Sure we trust airplanes like anyone else, but we still manage to gnash…
What I miss about Ireland
I stumbled on a very visual and funny post that Guy Kawasaki wrote about a recent trip to Dublin. It was light and entertaining, and inspired…
Do manufacturers ever open their own packaging?
My friend Aaron Oppenheimer has taught me a lot about the end-to-end product experience, for a consumer, through our conversations and his weekly blog postings. It’s…
The Obama Bargain
The only thing protecting the conservative black writer Shelby Steele from a witch hunt, after today’s excoriating opinion piece about Obama, is its appearance in the…
Three quick weekend recommendations
Two plays and a museum exhibit, in order of preference and urgency: “The Clean House” –a comedy at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, in Watertown.…
My dog is for sale
I love the custom manufacturing business models of Zazzle, GoodStorm and CafePress. They blend made-to-order JIT manufacturing with UGC, seemingly as effortlessly as ABC. Example: upload…
Super Tuesday
Going to the polling station always makes me happy. The obvious reasons are the same as everyone else’s: I am happy to live in a democracy…
First visit to IKEA
“Mom, I need a modern room.” I first heard those words about nine years ago when our oldest son was inhabiting the former baby nursery (think periwinkle…
Raymond Loewy: Father of American industrial design?
There’s a great exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington; “Raymond Loewy; Designs for a Consumer Culture.” It’s full of visual interest (it’d be a…
RightsAgent Launched.
I just registered this blog with RightsAgent. Cool. Great way to start aggregating everything I publish online into one place, and to control the re-publication and…
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