design thinking
just some thoughts on design
Reinventing Today’s Troubled Convenience Store
Reinventing today’s troubled convenience store With practical, customer-friendly improvements, convenience stores are ready for a comeback Abstract: Today’s urban convenience store has become anything but convenient. Plagued by persistent shoplifting, employee safety…
Theory on Museum Labels
A Theory on Museum Labels The relationship between the size of an art piece in a museum and the time spent reading its label. I have noticed something peculiar in all my years of visiting art museums. There is an understated yet undeniable relationship between the…
Sanitized Personal Workspace
Feel save at your open office desk again, with the Sanitized Personal Workspace.
UX & Architecture
UX includes all aspects of an interaction and experience by a user of a product. So my question is, why is UX not an integral part of Architecture?
Creative Singularity
Creative Singularity a reflection on the creative potential of Artificial Intelligence Will there be a ‘creative singularity’? The imminent arrival of the Technological Singularity is omnipresent, at least in the press, board rooms and TED conferences. You cannot…
Design Not Thinking
Design Not Thinking The Turning Radius Design Not Thinking If design is the execution of an idea, then this picture is a testament to the importance of correctly executing an idea. This is a wonderfully clear example of how NOT to design a bike path in a dense urban…
Starcks Royalton was a great idea
Good bye to a Great Idea A great design sacrificed to the hotel renovation cycle. A very late postmortem to a great design idea I realize I am woefully late to lament the Royalton’s remodeling, roughly 10 years too late to be precise, but sometimes it takes…
Aspiration as Design for New Dhaka
Aspiration as a Design Element in Urban Planning New Dhaka, Bangladesh Abstract Among the many challenges that Urban Planning faces in developing countries none is more readily solved and yet more often ignored as a design element than the perception and…
iWalk
This powerful app and camera has everything you need to concentrate on what’s really important while you walk; your smartphone screen.
Our curious ability to un-see
its not easy to forget a visual. This fact is particularly important when creating a visualization and should be kept at the forefront of your decision making process.
Architecture is branding
Architecture is branding Perceived Value It strikes me as funny, that after having been a professional designer for my entire adult life, the realization that design is a perceived value has only recently come around full circle. Its taken me this long to…
New York City Needs an Iconic Taxi.
New York City Needs an Iconic Taxi We need a better Taxi There is an old adage that says “criticizing is easy, offering a solution is hard”. Oddly enough in the case of New York City’s Taxi of the future, the Nissan NV200, that saying works better…
3D as a second language
3D as a second language The advantage of knowing 3D in the creative thought process Knowing different ways to say the same thing There is a theory that knowing a second language strengthens your primary language. It states that a second language speaker gains…
Bardolino Classico – A Digital Case Study
Bardolino Classico A Digital Case Study A digital study into a peculiar Italian wine We gladly took the opportunity to choose an unfamiliar wine in the US market in order to explore our collective analytical, visualization and branding abilities and learn…
Does 3D help the creative design process?
Does digital visualization help the creative design process? 3D in the creative design process. I want to be clear that this is not a conversation about the latest and greatest visualization technology. This is a conversation about if visualization actually helps the…