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Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design
These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…
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Green Power!
Charles Buchwald and Friends is consulting on software development, corporate identity programme, and a marketing campaign for a new “green power” initiative in Veracruz, Mexico and Mexico City, DF. This exciting new initiative is anticipated to debut this fall. Watch here for more, as the project progresses.
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Wooster Magazine: The Adventurers
The summer 2012 issue of Wooster Magazine has a article entitled “The Adventurers”, about alumni with a ken for thrills. Page 20 highlights my experience with the development of hangboarding. Check it out here. By the way, if you are interested in the hangboard technology, it’s currently available for licensing, and the team would love…
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World’s Largest Top Ten List
Here is an interesting bit of shameless self-promotion collected while reviewing the archives… each of these companies laid claim to “world’s largest” as a former client: world’s largest bicycle tool manufacturer: Park Tool USA world’s largest law book publisher: West Publishing (now part of Thompson Reuters) world’s largest premium car manufacturer: BMW (one of the)…
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Greenway Partners
Sometimes Facebook can actually be useful and productive. A case in point: I recently reconnected with a friend from Northfield High School. David Narum is a partner with Greenway Partners in Arcata, California, promoting and using regenerative design to go “beyond sustainability”. It’s great to find like-minded people working to reconnect people and the planet.
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Dead Simple Site Building Tools
We are firm believers in open source CMSs (Content Management Systems). They make it easy to manage a web site… so easy that you don’t have to rely on us to edit and expand your content. It’s great for us, because it avoids those call like, “I’ve noticed an errant semicolon on page 2, paragraph…
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Abundance vs. Scarcity Thinking in Tech
Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s Editor in Chief, has written a thought-provoking article for the latest edition of said magazine. Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity presents views from his latest book about how the falling prices for information technology have the potential to change our thinking and…
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Update: Cannondale’s Folder Keeps Getting Closer
I wrote about this beautiful folding bike a while back. Then, reading through the latest issue of Outside Magazine, I saw it again… with a claim that it’s headed for bike shops next year. Checking in, I see than C’dale says it’s getting closer to production. And what an amazing amount of press this design…
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Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
Mere words cannot describe the magic beauty of these kinetic sculptures. Dutch artist and inventor Theo Jansen has brought sticks and string and pipes to life as these creatures that walk along the sand of the beach, powered by the wind. The simple leg mechanism is fascinating, not just for it’s uncanny motion, but as…