Camilo A. Angulo
The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
Looking back from two theories about its origin.
Industrial Design
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips of interest for Industrial Design, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
Erik Spiekermann
From the C-Word to the D-Word
Designers must take care of the words we use to talk about our work.
Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
The citizen designer
In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
Camilo A. Angulo
Green Models in Classroom
Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
Marco Rinaldi
Are we destined to fail as entrepreneurs?
The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.
Luciano Cassisi
Less is Less, More is More
The time is coming - to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».
Fernando Del Vecchio
Some ideas are too big
We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?
Fernando Del Vecchio
A passion for design
Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
Guillermo Dufranc
Zero Waste Packaging: Possible or Not?
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.
Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
When Conviction Gets in the Way
Not all pathways lead us to the same design, nor we all have to design through the same pathway.
María de Mater O’Neill
Views and Reflections on Design Education: Local Voices from Puerto Rico
Limited inquiry that explored ways of knowing, experiences, and procedures in teaching design in Puerto Rico using a critical reflective practice approach.
Erik Spiekermann
The Seventh Commandment
The tribute, robbery and theft of authorship, have blurred boundaries in the design practice.
Fernando Del Vecchio
And where are the opportunities?
Somebody has a problem and somebody has the answer to that problem, but... ¿How can we do to meet this couple?
Mario Balcázar
The Vignelli Canon, a Tribute
Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.
Jorge Illich Carpinteyro
Design Contests
Contests aren't the cause of the main structural problems of the design profession, but an excellent reflection of such problems.
Kevin Murray
What is Southern design?
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.
José Antonio Giménez
Recipe book to get over the crisis with design
Professionals from 14 countries give their opinions and reflections about the profession and its relation with businesses and society.
Fernando Del Vecchio
Innovation on Design Is Not Inside Design
Nowadays, is common to listen in almost every conversation “innovation” term. Everything must be “innovative”. However, innovation is not the same for everyone.
Marcio Dupont
Design Thinking Is Not Design
Clarifying the role of DT in the design process and the correct use by the designer.
Fernando Del Vecchio
We Must Learn to Play the Game
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.
Pau De Riba
Reality of «Reality»
Missing the authenticity of pre-marketing, we have created an equally artificial aesthetic of tradition and handicrafts.
David Gallo
Planned Obsolescence
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.
Ricardo Rangel
Creation as the Human Essence
In a world surrounding us with material, creation has become part of our essence, a key piece in the evolution of mankind.
Pau De Riba
Invisible Design
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.
Ana Yago
Keep the User in Mind to Overcome the Crisis
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
Ana Yago
Sundays Smell of Roast Chicken
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
Andrés Gustavo Muglia
A navel too big
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?
José Antonio Giménez
Made in Spain, a Reality
We let qualified professional to leave and we reduce our manufacturing autonomy. And that obviously affects local industrial designers and weakens the companies’ room for manoeuvre.
Rodolfo Álvarez
Accomplice Design or Ethical Design
How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?
Martha Gutiérrez Miranda
Design and intelligence development
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.
Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
Realities and Conventions
Even though we refuse to accept it, there is indeed life in other brains: the culture of scorn harms us designers.
André Ricard
Fewer Products vs. More Services
A possible new horizon for the world and for the Design.
