Articles on Industrial Design
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips on Industrial Design, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
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- Looking back from two theories about its origin.
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- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- From the C-Word to the D-Word
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- Designers must take care of the words we use to talk about our work.
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- Author:
- Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
- Title:
- The citizen designer
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- In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
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- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- Green Models in Classroom
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- Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
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- Author:
- Luciano Cassisi
- Title:
- Less is Less, More is More
- Synopsis:
- The time is coming - to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
- Title:
- Are we destined to fail as entrepreneurs?
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- The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- A passion for design
- Synopsis:
- Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
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- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- The Seventh Commandment
- Synopsis:
- The tribute, robbery and theft of authorship, have blurred boundaries in the design practice.
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- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
- Title:
- Zero Waste Packaging: Possible or Not?
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- Although to eradicate packaging waste may sound impossible to achieve, sustainability is a path to take and make improvements over time to reduce environmental impact.
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- Followers:
- 489
- Author:
- María de Mater O’Neill
- Title:
- Views and Reflections on Design Education: Local Voices from Puerto Rico
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- Limited inquiry that explored ways of knowing, experiences, and procedures in teaching design in Puerto Rico using a critical reflective practice approach.
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- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- When Conviction Gets in the Way
- Synopsis:
- Not all pathways lead us to the same design, nor we all have to design through the same pathway.
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- Author:
- André Ricard
- Title:
- The ornaments
- Synopsis:
- An incitement to reconsider the role of the ornament on design works.
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- 465
- Author:
- Mario Balcázar
- Title:
- The Vignelli Canon, a Tribute
- Synopsis:
- Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.
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- Author:
- Jorge Illich Carpinteyro
- Title:
- Design Contests
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- Contests aren't the cause of the main structural problems of the design profession, but an excellent reflection of such problems.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
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- And where are the opportunities?
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- Somebody has a problem and somebody has the answer to that problem, but... ¿How can we do to meet this couple?
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- Innovation on Design Is Not Inside Design
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- Nowadays, is common to listen in almost every conversation “innovation” term. Everything must be “innovative”. However, innovation is not the same for everyone.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- We Must Learn to Play the Game
- Synopsis:
- In the market there are good and bad designers, good and bad clients, all sort of competition and prices. All of them are some of the components of the game to play.
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- Author:
- José Antonio Giménez
- Title:
- Recipe book to get over the crisis with design
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- Professionals from 14 countries give their opinions and reflections about the profession and its relation with businesses and society.
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- 55
- Author:
- Pau De Riba
- Title:
- Reality of «Reality»
- Synopsis:
- Missing the authenticity of pre-marketing, we have created an equally artificial aesthetic of tradition and handicrafts.
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- 48
- Author:
- Marcio Dupont
- Title:
- Design Thinking Is Not Design
- Synopsis:
- Clarifying the role of DT in the design process and the correct use by the designer.
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- 65
- Author:
- Kevin Murray
- Title:
- What is Southern design?
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- Conventionally, design is a form of development that trickles down from the North to the South. But the strength of tradition in Southern cultures provides rich resources.
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- Author:
- Andrés Gustavo Muglia
- Title:
- A navel too big
- Synopsis:
- Isn't it too much to ask design to “make the world better”? Isn't there in such request an exacerbation of its goals (and of designers) above its possibilities and concerns?
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- Author:
- Rodolfo Álvarez
- Title:
- Accomplice Design or Ethical Design
- Synopsis:
- How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?
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- Author:
- Ana Yago
- Title:
- Sundays Smell of Roast Chicken
- Synopsis:
- The least one can ask of a chair is for it to be functional and ergonomic but these qualities no longer suffice Today a chair will have to adjust to the shifting tastes of society
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- Author:
- Martha Gutiérrez Miranda
- Title:
- Design and intelligence development
- Synopsis:
- Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.
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- Author:
- Ana Yago
- Title:
- Keep the User in Mind to Overcome the Crisis
- Synopsis:
- The user – buyer – needs new incentives to purchase a product. It is not enough for it to be functional, it needs to fulfil the values and the lifestyle of the user
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- Author:
- Ricardo Rangel
- Title:
- Creation as the Human Essence
- Synopsis:
- In a world surrounding us with material, creation has become part of our essence, a key piece in the evolution of mankind.
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- Author:
- David Gallo
- Title:
- Planned Obsolescence
- Synopsis:
- Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.
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- Author:
- André Ricard
- Title:
- Design and everyday's life
- Synopsis:
- Designers can make a real contribution to everyday's life quality projecting low-tech objects where the shape itself allows function.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- Some ideas are too big
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- We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
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- The challenge of communicating value
- Synopsis:
- A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.
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- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- Realities and Conventions
- Synopsis:
- Even though we refuse to accept it, there is indeed life in other brains: the culture of scorn harms us designers.
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
- Title:
- Management vs. Leadership
- Synopsis:
- We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.
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- Author:
- Pau De Riba
- Title:
- Invisible Design
- Synopsis:
- After the “premium” stage where design acts as quality mark, good design should become a “commodity”, a component of the welfare society we take for granted.
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- Author:
- André Ricard
- Title:
- From the Useful-object to the Object-tool
- Synopsis:
- Freed from its functional responsibility, useful-objects appear as single-useful formal phenomena whose morphology is used to express a particular message.
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- Author:
- José Antonio Giménez
- Title:
- Wood’s Future Is in the Rear Mirror
- Synopsis:
- If we want to be recognized, searched, and valued, we should remain faithful to our tradition, recover the virtues of craftwork and with them meet the requirements of the consumer.
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