Posted by: sorafferty on: May 3, 2008
There are a selection of interesting short essays on design in an emerging world on the Torino World Design Capital website. They are a welcome contribution to the debate on design in the context of sustainable development. For me they are a refreshing reminder that there is still momentum and debate in the design [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: May 2, 2008
Nokia’s user anthropologist Jan Chipcase was followed by the New York Times on his design research visits to the developing world. What is most interesting about Chipchases’s work is that the now fairly humble mobile phone is transformed through new context.
Something that’s mostly a convenience booster for those of us with a full complement of [...]
