Catalyst Tour

http://www.catalystpdg.com/

Next Friday we will be heading to Indy for a tour of Cataylst, an Industrial Design firm located in Indy. We will be leaving at 1 or 1:30 latest and well set a departure location soon.

Objectified Viewing!

This is the week we are screening the movie Objectified! It will NOT be outside like we thought it would since it's late October and cold. We WILL be watching it in the Senior studio Wednesday at 8:30 NOT at 5:30. People that can't make 5:30 meetings because of class or sports have an opportunity to come this week.

Paul Hatch is giving a Lecture at Purdue

Nov 11th at 5.30

Paul Hatch is coming to PAO Hall to speak about "Naked Design."

Paul is owner of TEAMS design in Chicago, and a great speaker. He will be talking about Understanding Visual Perception of Objects. Attached is the poster he designed, caution: it's promiscuous :)

Make sure you make it!

MAKER FAIRE AFRICA 2009

solar powered lamps

Inspiration for the 48-2 Competition

Ran across this and thought of the upcoming designing for Haiti project. Check out these made from local products designs.

http://www.core77.com/gallery/photos_search.asp?context_id=1&album_id=107

"Power Play" carousel - kid driven power (not child labor)

- jo

AWESOME site for product design. Has forums, videos, tutorials. Definitely check out!

http://www.productdesignforums.com/

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer

For those of you who haven't checked out the adbusters website, blog, or magazine, its about freakin time. Adbusters promote the culture jamming campaign led by Kalle Lasn and his anti-consumerism hipsters of doom.

ADBUSTERS!

Not to hate, i love adbusters - if you have any interest in culture, counter culture, DIY culture, branding, consumerism, etc, check it out.

<3

g-foxxx

Check out the website below. It provides information for different colors,such as if it is a good color for viewing on computers, under certain kinds of light, what stardard color from paint companies will match it, and other colors that will look good with a color (with mathematical reasons). It looks like a pretty interesting resource.

http://easyrgb.com/index.php?X=CALC

Info for Special Projects Group

If you are interested please email me, and say yes I can or no I cant meet Wednesday after the idsa meeting.
afclemen@purdue.edu

Thanks,
Andrew Clemenson

Perfume Fragrance Opportunity

http://www.ideawicket.com/Fine-Fragrance-Dispensing

I received an email from Ideawick through coroflot and thought I'd share it with you all. This seems incredibly ironic that it's at the same time as the bottle design for Steve's class, but check it out, who knows you might get some fat cash. Since we all have so much 'free time' to devote to third party competitions, lol. Happy Friday!

- jo

P.S. It's due by the 22nd of Sept.

Check it out Sealline's new urban backpack

Seal-Line one of Cascade Design's outdoor gear brands came up with the new urban backpack. It's water proof!

-Shellfish

Ford SynUS concept. Poor execution, but a great example of the evolution of research into a concept.




watch the video
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/concept_cars/ford_synus.html

Biomimicry

For those of you who are interested in biomimicry (copy how nature do things) here is a good website.

www.asknature.org

make sure you join to support this website, they are still in beta mode so supports are needed.


and don't anyone ever post without pictures!

-Shellfish