Again, with more panty dropping art work from Misaki Kawai… I lub her (.^_*.)

Overview

Aim: To devise a plan for the transformation stage from the information provided in our design brief and to reflect what we have done in the past to move on-wards.

Outline: To motivate the project and enter into a stage of insight, set of changes, and creativity. Also to identify any mistakes in order to [...]

Now that everything is coming towards an end, we are now able to put things in perspective. All the seeking, questioning, reasoning behind the method has been clarified. These answers did not appear out of nowhere, it has been a rigorous amount of thinking and guidance from Lars. The method that we chose is probably [...]

We are now wrapping up the convergence stage, that probably took the most out of me. It was going back and forth on the design of the pocket, followed with discussions. The course started off with meticulously breaking down the method in stages, and in the convergence stage we were challenged to render the book [...]

It’s been a long dis-jointed event since the last post on design methods. In a nutshell, I sort of put Stephanie in a pickle when I had left Sweden and we both wanted to continue with the course together. Then she thought of a brilliant plan to communicate via Skype, so we can move forward [...]

In class today, Stephanie and I presented how far along we have gone with our design brief. I believe that it was a successful presentation and feel positive about going into the next step of transformation. I think Lars is trying to scare us and the whole class that the transformation stage should be more difficult than exploration [...]

It’s been a long 8 hours of design history and my brain is totally fried but will find the last few minutes of energy to write this blog. The lecture began as a continuation to the last lesson and it was interesting to hear what my fellow classmates thought of the city Borås and in what [...]

How do you measure when how much it too much?. We have been analyzing how we came about our design brief. Relatively this is a simple question when someone asks how did you make this. A natural response would be to explain how it’s been fabricated but apparently I have been mis-interpreting the question. From [...]

Professor Lars Hallnas, my colleague Stephanie and I had our first discussion on Design Methods and the meeting actually reminded me of what I had already known. Design methodology has not been a force of strategy in my own practice because I don’t like to take myself too seriously. However the method I can relate [...]