“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” – Fernando Pessoa by Fabiane Lee-Perrella

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig

fperrella3 — 2020-12-07 17:33:14 UTC

Michael Marriott says:

"I couldn’t put it down; poetic, brilliant summing up of how to live life proper and do things properly."

Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson

fperrella3 — 2020-12-07 17:56:01 UTC

Design which works in symbiosis with the environment, local, sustainable and resilient.

Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley

fperrella3 — 2020-12-08 12:47:03 UTC

It's been a while since a film made such a visual and conceptual impact in my system.

Black Box Thinking

Loki_ — 2020-12-08 14:58:55 UTC

It's good know how can we learn from mistakes and don't be afraid of making mistakes.

The Design Process

zeqiwang999 — 2020-12-13 20:30:46 UTC

"Creative Procrastination"
and "Get Lost in Research" could be fatal to designers.

And it could be really painful:
🙁
Why I failed to make a great and convincing outcome?
I was so hard working !
That’s doesn’t make sense !
I don’t know where I made the mistake!
😱
That’s why I failed in last project.
Be aware and be careful to
"Fool yourself "
👍
This book could help you to analyze and structure design steps. Always keep a clear mind in design process.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson - Podcast

2020-12-15 14:48:27 UTC

The whole series is fascinating but in particular this episode was really amazing to me personally. She studied at Camberwell and I find her incredibly humble and talented. Junko Mori on Metal.

Podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qkNkW3jAAngVDd6NmtMqM?si=NCqSRo5jRcmxWYvV5YwKBQ

Link to her website:
https://www.junkomori.com/

MUSEUM OF MAKING

2021-01-04 12:14:50 UTC

Shape-changing interfaces that leverage swarm and soft robots

jcleverly3 — 2021-01-04 12:19:42 UTC

The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design

jcleverly3 — 2021-01-04 13:10:22 UTC

The secret Power of Trees

jcleverly3 — 2021-01-13 09:18:05 UTC

I really like how this takes account of the slightly disregarded highly beneficial aspects of trees

39 ways to save our planet

jcleverly3 — 2021-01-13 09:19:48 UTC

some extraordinary things going on- e.g. drones and robots that fix wind turbines!

Linkedin Learning

fguimaraessoares09202011 — 2021-01-14 21:02:00 UTC

Dieter Rams: Principles of Good Design

In his 50+ years of product design, Dieter Rams has left an indelible mark on the field with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsœ. The objects Dieter has designed have touched the lives of millions of people who have owned a Braun coffeemaker or stereo, an Oral-B toothbrush, or a Vitsœ 606 shelving system. Or any of the hundreds of other products Dieter has designed or overseen. This film is a documentary portrait by Gary Hustwit following one of the most influential designers alive. Gary interviews Dieter about his life and work, as he ruminates on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

This film was created by Gary Hustwit. We are pleased to offer this documentary in our library.

If Then- this is an extraordinary story

jcleverly3 — 2021-01-15 11:11:57 UTC

BLOWN AWAY ( NETFLIX SERIES )

2021-01-23 21:29:40 UTC

- Raymond Moreno 1st Year

László Moholy-Nagy, EM1, EM2, and EM3 (Telephone Pictures), 1923 by Dr. Elizabeth Otto and Dr. Steven Zucker for Smart History

fperrella3 — 2021-02-12 13:11:58 UTC

With this work László Mohioly-Nagy aimed at dissolving what Walter Gropius called 'the arrogant distinction between the craftsman and the artist'.

The Map That Made Manhattan

jcleverly3 — 2021-02-22 17:52:57 UTC

I found this absolutely fascinating

An exploration of the evolution, and lasting impact, of a visionary urban design: the Manhattan street grid. From 2014.

Life Beyond

2021-03-01 11:10:14 UTC

Exploring how life appeared on earth and how it might appear and evolve on other worlds.
Chapter two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI
Chapter one:

A lot of really interesting content here including a warning from literature, and from history. Stephen Fry and Nick Baker discuss E.M. Forster’s 1909 novella, ‘The Machine Stops’, which envisages a physical world changed, if not destroyed by technology. But what happens when that technology breaks down

jcleverly3 — 2021-03-03 11:52:35 UTC

How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution

fperrella3 — 2021-03-07 16:43:12 UTC

'Having a portfolio of tools that they could use to find tasty things to eat gave our ancestors the confidence to explore new environments, knowing they would be able to find food, whatever the season threw at them. “It really allows our ancestors to move out into the world and do new things.”'

2021-03-11 10:33:38 UTC

Dieter Rams: Principles of Good Design

The art dealer, the £10m Benin Bronze and the Holocaust

jcleverly3 — 2021-03-16 10:27:33 UTC

Extraordinary story of the effects of colonialism and more

Chalk and Maths

lilyhornsbury — 2021-03-18 14:10:14 UTC

Something quite different but still nonetheless very interesting!

Mingei: Japanese Folk Craft

jcleverly3 — 2021-03-18 19:35:12 UTC

bit of a stilted format but.....

Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic

jcleverly3 — 2021-03-18 19:58:09 UTC

DOES ART HEAL?

fperrella3 — 2021-03-25 17:36:48 UTC

The WHO hosts this discussion between researchers, practitioners and policy makers to ask the question: what is the verifiable evidence that art heals? What does that mean? What are the implications for health care and the arts community?

2021-03-26 13:08:38 UTC

Artificial Intelligence + Music

“It is plurality that defines us”: a Brazilian design guide

fperrella3 — 2021-03-30 14:33:05 UTC

razilian design guide

As part of our series exploring countries’ design cultures, we explore how Brazil’s politics of the past and present are affecting design, and how young designers are forging their own visual culture.

2021-04-28 16:18:01 UTC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Material-Making-Transformation-Nick-Kary/dp/1603589325/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=material+nick+kary&qid=1619626664&sr=8-1
- Alice Anderson

People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQUK surveillance agency says it has long valued neuro-diverse analysts – including Alan Turing

jcleverly3 — 2021-04-30 08:53:14 UTC

The Alternative Limb Project

jcleverly3 — 2021-05-02 15:22:37 UTC

This is amazing!

Dare To Repair: How We Broke the Future - Episode 1

jcleverly3 — 2021-05-11 08:37:24 UTC

Art blogs

2021-10-24 21:26:27 UTC

please read and let us know what you think

Digital Art and NFTs

fperrella3 — 2021-11-07 16:47:43 UTC

Is this just a new landscape for those with too much money to play?

Spaces of encounter and story telling to shape our public spaces.

fperrella3 — 2022-12-15 17:58:35 UTC

What do you think?

Nuts and Bolts By: Roma Agrawal

fperrella3 — 2023-03-12 12:23:35 UTC

Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In 'Nuts and Bolts', award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet.

Richard Sennett on writing instructions, from 'The Craftsman'.

2023-04-10 12:12:59 UTC

PODCAST 3 SERIES TRACE MATERIALS -

2024-01-16 10:34:28 UTC

created by fresh and engaging designers at Parsons in NY these podcast talk about 3 material sections - plastics, hemp, and mycelium and make accessible and is focused on cultural impact -

“If you put me to a wall,” he continues, “and forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10.”

2024-02-17 18:24:28 UTC

“For me, a luddite is someone who looks at technology critically and rejects aspects of it that are meant to disempower, deskill or impoverish them. Technology is not something that’s introduced by some god in heaven who has our best interests at heart. Technological development is shaped by money, it’s shaped by power, and it’s generally targeted towards the interests of those in power as opposed to the interests of those without it. That stereotypical definition of a luddite as some stupid worker who smashes machines because they’re dumb? That was concocted by bosses.”

A discussion about Craft and Design

2024-03-25 10:39:41 UTC

"Each of the practitioners spoke about how they became interested in traditional crafts, the challenges they faced in combining them with design and how they managed the sense of responsibility for heritage and the livelihood of others when working in this space."