This article goes along the same line in my views on technology and innovation. I could see the appearance of so many creative collaborative sites. Even with my favourite photographers, designers-no one works alone. Well, no successful project happens in a vacuum or in isolation. I’ve learned my lesson after working for myself for the last 9 years. When I had a business partner it was a double edge sword—what I really appreciated was her pushing me to raise the bar on design while each of us with dominant personality managed eachother.
As designers we have a propensity for DIY projects. Everything always starts there with some exploration, experimentation and, deconstruction. The advent of sites and magazines like Make, Technology hobby shops and dyi project site scrambles our established notion of how things work. Innovation in technology or creativity always comes from this kind of discovery. Why else would we have a passion to learn new things and be challenged or to challenge the notion of convention. Being open minded enough to allow another point of view in this process-wouldn’t it push this innovation to another level? I remembered once how a design teacher once told us, “there is no I in industrial design”. I believe that it holds true to all creative endeavors that doesn’t fear to hit the next level.
I honestly look forward to trying out this environment. Yes, I’m aware of the politics when working in a group-but isn’t that way there are project managers or mediators in a creative brain storming session?
Friday, June 19, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Onward and Upward
Well, to say the least I’m on the mend. I set up a placeholder page for my new site, took care of the domain namespace and permission for the database. Tomorrow I will direct the old domain to the new site placeholder. Somewhere deep down there is still a lot of anxiety, the beast is sedated for now but the fail of failure is still there. So it’s onward from here and hopefully upward.
While I spent the day browsing I found a few interesting article in what appears to be a string of random tangent thoughts. It started with boredom. Looking for something to do—it’s Sunday I need to do something different. This started with the City of Toronto’s Event Calendar, then onward to free events at Luminato. This led to searching for an LED light kit for my paper lantern project that might lead to the formation of an art club. If you live in Toronto and are curious about it, leave a post.
From there, I checked up on the latest by my friends on Facebook and one in particular intrigued me about sustainable pre fabricated housing made of transport containers that led to one of my favourite design site that went back to Facebook who has a friend who is listed on as one of the Top 100 Most Creative People list in this issue that led to a really interesting article at Fast Companies. Then my sister came in and we had a talk about sorting out my workspace. That led to my searching for shelving solution at Ikea and looking at my desk thinking about what I want for my new box, and started looking at some new chassis and cpu fans. Then back to Ikea, Home Depot for organization ideas for this tiny space. And back to research for LED components..on and on…and at one point as I was going through the new product section, critiquing the design to myself and appreciating the company’s commitment to the environment. Then I had a thought while I was plotting on how to purge, I remembered how old computers are recycled…and found an article about it. How the components are striped by hands and thrown in an open coal fire in the middle of a small family town in rural China. The women are exposed to dioxin that is also passed down to their infants. You know the rest. This added another item in my life-to-do list to volunteer at a NGO to help these rural women to find alternative source of income. Providing them with choices knowing that there is always an alternative method or a chance, no one on earth should be going through this kind of downward spiral.
Changing the world by providing sustainable choices is a goal I hope to achieve in some way. I have a lot of respect and admiration for individuals who makes the effort from behind the scene.
While I spent the day browsing I found a few interesting article in what appears to be a string of random tangent thoughts. It started with boredom. Looking for something to do—it’s Sunday I need to do something different. This started with the City of Toronto’s Event Calendar, then onward to free events at Luminato. This led to searching for an LED light kit for my paper lantern project that might lead to the formation of an art club. If you live in Toronto and are curious about it, leave a post.
From there, I checked up on the latest by my friends on Facebook and one in particular intrigued me about sustainable pre fabricated housing made of transport containers that led to one of my favourite design site that went back to Facebook who has a friend who is listed on as one of the Top 100 Most Creative People list in this issue that led to a really interesting article at Fast Companies. Then my sister came in and we had a talk about sorting out my workspace. That led to my searching for shelving solution at Ikea and looking at my desk thinking about what I want for my new box, and started looking at some new chassis and cpu fans. Then back to Ikea, Home Depot for organization ideas for this tiny space. And back to research for LED components..on and on…and at one point as I was going through the new product section, critiquing the design to myself and appreciating the company’s commitment to the environment. Then I had a thought while I was plotting on how to purge, I remembered how old computers are recycled…and found an article about it. How the components are striped by hands and thrown in an open coal fire in the middle of a small family town in rural China. The women are exposed to dioxin that is also passed down to their infants. You know the rest. This added another item in my life-to-do list to volunteer at a NGO to help these rural women to find alternative source of income. Providing them with choices knowing that there is always an alternative method or a chance, no one on earth should be going through this kind of downward spiral.
Changing the world by providing sustainable choices is a goal I hope to achieve in some way. I have a lot of respect and admiration for individuals who makes the effort from behind the scene.
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