On our third eight hour round trip of the term, we visited the Nissan factory down in Sunderland. Oh the joy. The aim here was to become educated on the processes involved in the car manufacturing line and to check in on how the new Nissan Leaf was coming along. It’s doing swell in case … More The Plane Graveyard
Open Design Today 27/02/14 Why on earth would you take a design, your baby, that you have been working on for countless hours and make it public and free for anyone else to abuse?! Well, for the bettering of mankind of course, a grand and noble cause that I’m guessing makes most who endeavour upon … More Open Design Today
20/02/2014 The title here is my biggest insight from today’s talk with Brian Loranger, a user experience expert with some great ideas and outlooks I had never even thought about. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling insanely jealous when seeing these billionaire geniuses who came up with one good idea and hit it big. What makes them so lucky/how on … More If you don’t have the information, how can you have the revelation?
I have been having various problems with my internet so here is an absolute avalanche of blogs! 13/02/14 I’ve never been a particular fan of minimalism, for no particular reason it just usually doesn’t do it for me (hence the pretentious title). We were shown a slide of various designs from the past, showing how … More Is great design always simple?
I have been delayed in posting due to being disgustingly-hospital-worthy ill. Apparently I missed a wonderful, if a little trippy, film 2001: A Space Odyssey in class which I will be sure to watch and dissect another time. But NOW! I have chosen my topic to scrutinise for the remainder of this course, it may … More Illness and Androgyny
The wonderful Dr Ben Craven gave us a talk on approximating values early on in the design process, showing us the importance of determining whether a project is viable or not as soon as possible. I’m already a little terrified of getting halfway through my final year project next year and finding out my idea … More Guesswork and being green
I’m not entirely sure if the title here makes sense but I really just wanted to quote a really good song which you will find a link to right at the bottom of this post. Before that I have linked to the first part in an episode by the BBC on Marc Newson, an infamous, … More Is pointless design simply art for art’s sake?
I like to think that I chose going to university to become more educated and to further my knowledge in an area of interest but in reality I was far more concerned with getting a decent wage from my job. To follow a craft or to learn a trade is a huge sacrifice when it … More An Introduction to Design and Technology
Love, PamJa 