http://designprinciplesandpractices.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:06:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Stephen Miller in The Wall Street Journal: Bruce Graham was the architect behind Chicago's Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world when it was opened in 1974 and still the tallest building in the U.S. Mr. Graham, who died Saturday at age 84, was senior design partner at ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2010/03/10/apostle-of-architectures-power-left-mark-on-chicago-skyline/ From Edward Tufte, as told to Jimmy Guterman in the MITSloan Management Review: On the (Very, Very Bad) Design of Corporate Web Sites The front page of a good news site will have 300 links on it. That’s great. And so the question is: How come your corporate Web site has only seven ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2010/03/10/how-facts-change-everything-if-you-let-them/ Winners in 7 categories, including: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture and more... [caption id="attachment_1752" align="alignnone" width="436" caption="Brit Insurance Architecture Award 2010: Monterrey Housing, Mexico"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1753" align="alignnone" width="436" caption="Brit Insurance Furniture Award 2010: Grassworks, Netherlands"][/caption] http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2010/03/09/brit-insurance-shortlist-winners/ The Earth Awards recognize design that offers groundbreaking solutions to the ecological and social challenges of the 21st century. The 2009 recipient is Neri Oxman, acknowledged for her work in interdisciplinary design and design research. From her profile at Materialecology: Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher whose work attempts to establish ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2010/03/05/2009-earth-award-winner-creative-solutions-for-the-21st-century/ From John Markoff in the New York Times: Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be. Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a system that will blend teamwork and collaboration with powerful graphics algorithms to create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2010/02/23/computers-turn-flat-photos-into-3-d-buildings/ Donald A.Norman recently posted an essay to his web site http://www.jnd.org discussing technological innovation. I've come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs. I reached this conclusion through examination of a range ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2009/12/23/technology-first-invention-second-needs-last/ From Eye blog at eyemagazine.com Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lucid thinker and vivid critic, shared some critical thoughts with Ksenija Berk last winter, in this two-part interview. His overview of basic ideas in design thinking brought to light some thoughts ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2009/12/22/power-vacuum-part-one-victor-margolin-on-design-and-sustainability/ The final issue of Volume 3 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available. Volume 3, Number 6 contains: Designing the Holocaust at the Sites of the Shoah and Museum Stores by Cayo Gamber. Clean Water, Deep Learning: A Design Project about Water Quality in the Wilson River Catchment Area, Northern ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2009/12/07/design-journal-volume-3-now-complete/ Congratulations to Olga den Besten, John Horton, Peter Kraftl and Peter Adey, the winners of the International Award for Excellence in the area of design principles and practices for their paper Building a ‘box’: Discourses of School Design in the UK Abstract: There is currently considerable activity in the UK ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2009/11/23/announcing-the-winner-of-the-international-award-for-excellence/ Congratulations to all of the International Award for Excellence finalists: Public Participation in Design of Health Empowering Information Systems: An Idealistic Fantasy or Democratic Effect? by Anders Barlach. Culture Clash as Design Curriculum by Mark Biddle, Ann McDonald and Audra Buck-Coleman. Creating Strategy by Design by James Carlopio. A Tale of Two Streets: Comparative ... http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2009/11/23/finalists-for-the-international-award-for-excellence/