Technology

Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips of interest for Technology, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.

Erik Spiekermann It’s Showtime

Good and bad Powerpoint.

Manuel Guerrero Graphic Design New Fields

Macro-trends and behavior patterns allow to visualize new fields of action for graphic design in the future.

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Mauricio Arboleda Acosta The smart era

A Global Web Index recent study states that Facebook is the most popular social platform of the world with a 56% of active users. Youtube is in the 2nd place.

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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?

Sebastian Guerrini I am designer anthropologist

My job, to design brands for clients who have an international projection, led me to do a different activity from the one of the traditional designer.

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Greta Sánchez Instagram: Rage for Ubiquitous Image

The most succesful image social network, beyond predjudices about it triviality, is also a tool that can be used in marketing, visual education and ethnograpic research.

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?

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.

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Mariane Garcia Unanue Ambient design and new technologies

New ambients and spaces go along with habit and behavior changes in people. In this scenario: what is the role of technology?

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Marco Rinaldi Management vs. Leadership

We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.

Fernando Del Vecchio The challenge of communicating value

A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.

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Antonio Recamier Malacca Beach: Social and Environmental Implications of Design

A call to designers and engineers to take up social and environmental impact in their designs - especially when it comes to off-shore resource extraction.

Ernesto Antonio Santos León Information and Privacy in the Digital Era

New statements are generated with the Internet evolution, especially about data. How is information being handled? What happens to the users' privacy?