Transdisciplinary Design

Last week, some friends and I took up an invitation to hear Ray Kurzweil keynote the World Technology Awards. When I first read his book…

As part of our Design For The 21st Century class, we have small recitation groups. For  mine, a group I love, we are required to…

Critical Design has been gaining more and more momentum in the design circles in the past few years and lately it’s been a major part…

“Scale comes from measuring, but also must be juxtaposed against something.” – Jamer Hunt In our Design For This Century course, Jamer Hunt made the…

Collaboratively authored by Howard Chambers, Francis Carter, Mai Kobori, and Steven Dale The inagural visualizing.org Marathon, sponsored by SEED magazine and GE, kicked off with…

The magic of collaboration is evident when the collective output exceeds the individual inputs of a team (buzzword=synergy). A successful collaboration is a measure of…

Several weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum graced the TD studio with his wit and wisdom. In a brief conversation, between carefully calculated bites of a Banh…

Apparently, it’s called “Black Friday” because retailers hope strong sales on this day – the busiest shopping day of the year – will help put…

Picture an industry where an average work-week is sixty to one-hundred hours long. Projects last an intense four to eight months, and on any given…

I’m working on a design map for my Design For This Century class final project. The map is still only in superdraft stages. In the…