Entries from April 1, 2008 - May 1, 2008
One for the parents
If you’re a parent, here’s a cool new product: Cucuyo. It’s portable baby changing station and diaper bag. It was designed by a couple of friends of mine, husband and wife team Ana Reza and Page Hadden (she formerly of frog design and Pottery Barn, he of Timbuk2 and Lowe Pro, so they know their stuff). It folds up sort of like a burrito, and unrolls into a pad for doing diaper changes, and has a pouch for storing new and old diapers. As they say, there’s no need to have a dedicated diaper bag, as this fulfills the role. Plus it comes in a bunch of cool colors and patterns.
Adam
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PrintNew coat of (blog) paint
A new look for the blog, I was getting a bit tired of the “web 2.0” look of the previous design. This one is pretty stripped down and simple. I’ve removed the photo header (all the photos I’ve used there have been ones I took myself) and instead am hoping to boost the number of photos I include in posts themselves, now that I’m doing more photography.
Buy This Book: Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
If you are in the business of designing products, have I got a book for you: It’s called Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals ($60 on Amazon). This may sound expensive until you see it: it’s a monster of a book at 500+ pages and with 1200 color illustrations and weighs several pounds.
A huge range of materials and manufacturing processes are covered in detail, richly communicated with great on-the-shop-floor photos taken by the author himself, Rob Thompson, who is an industrial designer. There are sections on familiar categories like metals…
And plastics…
…and less familiar ones like caning:
This is really a breathtaking effort in its scope and detail. Highly recommended.
La Sagrada Familia
While in Barcelona last week I had the opportunity to visit the famed Antoni Gaudi cathedral La Sagrada Familia. It really is an amazing structure, and if you can you owe it to yourself to pay it a visit. There’s not a big rush — it started construction over 100 years ago and is due to be completed around 2050. A few pictures below and more here.
Form Magazine Archive Online
Famous German design magazine Form has puts its whole archive online in the form of scanned pages. It provides a page by page account of exactly how the magazine looked, along with a search box to find particular items of interest. Unfortunately the scans are not of great quality - iffy whites, washed out blacks, and in some cases they didn’t seem to set the scanner for doing magazine photos so the dot pattern printing causes moire patterns. Nevertheless, a great archive for anyone interested in the history of design from a European point of view (and of course who reads German).