Blog Review Week of 11/23-11/29

One of Apple's best selling items is its iPhone. I myself hve an iPhone and since July 11th 2008 when I waited on line for more hours than I am willing to admit. It in my opinion is the pinnacle of cellphone innovation. It has more than 100,000 applications and it is often scoffed that no matter what the task there is an application for that. This post talks about iPhone assembly...

iPhones in China Apparently the iPhones assembled in China do not say assembled in China but my take on this post is well cares. To be honest to people even check the "made in..." sticker of notation, I am going to go with NO. Innovation has lead to great intellectual discoveries while corporate greed has attributed to out sourcing so who is really surprised if any and all good are not "made in China"

Computer Graphics Term Paper

Steve Heller

Born in 1950, Steven Heller has developed a brand as a revolutionary graphic designer. His long and successful career has been attributed to his multifaceted career. He is American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design. He has established himself as one with not only an eye for graphics but an appreciation and talent for writing. He has published works in several publications such as Affiche, Baseline,Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye Graphis, How, I.D., Oxymoron, Mother Jones,The New York Times Book Review, Print, Speak, and U&lc magazines. Over the past 20 years Heller has been contributing editor to Print, Eye, Baseline, and I.D. magazines, and has had contributed hundreds of articles, critical essays. He published scores of critical and journalistic writers on design, and currently is editor of AIGA Voice: Online Journal of Whether as an author, co-author, and/or editor Heller has contributed to well over 100 books on design and popular culture, Heller has worked with a many publishers, including Chronicle Books, Allworth Press, Harry N. Abrams, Phaidon Press, Taschen Press, Abbeville Press, Thames & Hudson, Rockport, Northlight, and more. Currently Heller is completing "Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State" for Phaidon Press, an analysis of how the major dictatorships used graphics to propagate their ideologies.

He is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he lectures on the history of graphic design. Before founding this program he taught the history of illustration in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual arts for 14 years and was directed for ten years of SVA’s Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design symposiums.

Heller has produced or been curator of a number of exhibitions, including "Art Against War," "The Satiric Image: Painters as Cartoonists and Caricaturists," "The Malik Verlag," and "The Art of Simplicissumus: Germany’s Most Influential Satire Magazine," among them. He has organized various conferences, including The School of Visual Arts’ "How We Learn What We Learn," devoted to the future of design education, and the AIGA’s "Looking Closer: Graphic Design History and Criticism."

Heller is received the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Special Educators Award in 1996, The Pratt Institute Herschel Levitt Award in 2000, and the Society of Illustrators Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction in 2006.

Bibliography

About Steven Heller

http://www.hellerbooks.com/docs/about.html

Designing with illustration by Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990

Blog Review

Blog Review Week of 11/16-11/22

While I understand that the point of this BLog is to summarize the articles that we see on the other recommended blogs. This article is truly worth reposting. It is essential that while we acknowledge the marvels of innovation in Art, Technology for the sake of entertainment and Graphics we understand that is not the only places that innovation should be demanded. This article on health is thought provoking in that it establishes the need to not only look to Healthcare reforms for economic stimulation but to me explores the idea that the Healthcare reform must be lead by innovation:

Health Care Reform: US vs Singapore

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 22

I attended a briefing by the DesignSingapore Council’s International Advisory Panel on Friday that discussed making healthcare an economic driver of this city-state in the future. Now think about this. As the politics of the US continues to grind on around providing all Americans with the basics of health care, the government of Singapore has put together a panel of some of the world’s top designers to reshape it’s already terrific medical system so that it attracts people from all over the world to its facilities—and makes high value medicine a 21st century industry.

The International Advisory Panel consists of Chris Bangle, former Chief of Design for BMW and now head of Chris Bangle Associates; Richard Seymour and Dick Powell co-founders of Semourpowell, the renown British design and innovation consultancy; Steve Hayden, Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy New York and Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide; Toyo Ito, founder of Toyo Ito & Ass. architects; and many other smart folks.

The IAP said that Singapore’s medical system had a great foundation of combining both Western medicine with Eastern traditional practices. It called the remix “harmonic.”

And the panel suggested taking the next step beyond implementing efficient process planning and providing excellent facilities to innovate better experiences for patients and doctors and nurses in the practice of medicine. Better experiences lead to better health outcomes, better efficiences and lower costs.

This is similar to the work being done at the Mayo Clinic, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, Kaiser Permanente and other medical centers in the US. But not in Washington at the national policy-making level, as it is in Singapore. Singapore is a generation ahead of the US in the development of a modern health care system. It has the plumbing down—process and facilities— and is now working on the next level of value—human experience, wellness and economic growth. And it is turning to the world’s top design thinkers to help guide it. Who is determining the shape of the American health care system today? Insurance companies and their lobbyists?

Debt, equity and a third thing that might work better

As a Business major when I came across this article on the Seth Godin Blog I had to include it. The idea that innovation is free is often a misconception of my more creative counterparts. This article discusses the different ways a business strapped for cash can raise capital. IT explores the idea that banks do not like to incur risk although many would readily agree that taking on innovating projects and idea often deal with a great deal of risk.

Blog Reviews for week of 11/09-11/16

Core77

The Back to the future trilogy has been my favorite movie since I can remember. The moment I saw the Delorean take flight I was enamored. Not to mention Marty had a wining smile and a bad boy each. Since I have always been fascinated by the props they used, deep in my heart I wondered if the flux compassator really did hold the key to time travel. But that wasn't the only

innovative prop. The hoverboard, the auto adjustable sneakers, the auto dry clean jacket, the

fingerprint id machine. I jus

Class notes 11/3/09

Design principles

facilitate- to aid a process

control-

inflection point-

The old movie (black and white) and the portfolio reel had similarities the modern work had an "upgraded" shot but virtually both pieces the same shot.

Chinese movie -2046

singularity- an acute and abrupt break

Blog Reviews for week of 11/02-11-08

Customer Satisfaction

Seth's Blog

Working in retail we are brainwashed to believe that the customer is always right. But is that always the case? As a sales associate at J. Crew far too often do customers come into the store with an air of superiority and it is such a turn off. But thinking along the lines of the importance of customer satisfaction it made me wonder what really fuels innovation is it the thirst for new ideas, technology and means of inspiration or is the bulk of new inventions and ideologies simply a means of satisfying the consumer?

Back to the Future

Core77

The Back to the future trilogy has been my favorite movie since I can remember. The moment I saw the Delorean take flight I was enamored. Not to mention Marty had a wining smile and a bad boy each. Since I have always been fascinated by the props they used, deep in my heart I wondered if the flux compassator really did hold the key to time travel. But that wasn't the only

innovative prop. The hoverboard, the auto adjustable sneakers, the auto dry clean jacket, the

fingerprint id machine. I jus

t kept my eyes peeled for the hoverboard commercial or the autoadjust Nike. So when I ran across this blog entry I was filled with a pleasant surprise. Finally we may be on our way to see the engineering put behind some of this awesome ideas that have been in prototype stage for far tooo long.

Blog Reviews for week of 10/23-11/02

Quitters Never Prosper

The above saying is engrained in the mind of children over and over during adolescents. It is a common theme in society, if you are persistent then you will preserve but no one ever really addresses a simply thought what if you have no one behind you. Whether or not the radical changes that Governor Patterson has made since he took office is in the state's best interest still remains to be seen. The post on Seth Godin's Blog talks about how Governor Patterson has been pressured to quit his job. How does this relate to Design... Simply most Innovation does not happen overnight. Instead it often takes someone pulling though all the doubt and spectators and embracing their own vision.