Design Process at Frog Design by Wired Mag

Here at O and E, design process is so important to what we do. Keeping up with the industry helps us learn and grow. Here in as article from Wired Magazine about the industrial design process at Frog Design.

Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process

AMA Annual Conference: "Designature"

Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to volunteer at the AMA Minnesota chapter's annual conference, held at the St.Paul River Centre. The theme of this year's conference was design, which is how myself and the local design community became involved. I thought the caliber of speakers was fantastic, and had I not already known it was a marketing conference, I would have mistaken it for an IDSA conference with all the great design content. At any rate, it was an exciting day for me as a designer, seeing so many marketers spending a day learning about the power of design.

Among the speakers I had the chance to hear were Scott Williams of Morgans Hotel Group, Joe Heron of AirForce Nutrisoda, and Eric Ryan of Method to name a few. Other sessions were lead by representatives from Juut Salon, Sonicrim, Ecolab, Sundberg-Ferar, Mosquito, Capsule, Weehouse, 3M, and others.

There was just too much good stuff to put into one post without getting too wordy, but I'm working on a summary article for our next IDSA MN newsletter, which should be out in the next couple months, and downloadable on the chapter website!

Happy Halloween!

If you didn't make it out to the IDSA Minnesota chapter's Halloween party last Thursday, well, you missed out! It was a great time and almost everyone arrived in costume. The party was held at one of our member's homes on Summit Ave in St. Paul, a truly indescribable house adorned with an eclectic mix of found objects and souvenirs from their world travels.

This posting is a few days after the event, but being that today is Halloween, I thought it would be appropriate to show off some of the costumes. Visit the IDSA MN site for a link to see these photos and others on a larger scale.

Cool Green Stuff

I'm pretty stoked today as my pre-ordered copy of Cool Green Stuff arrived in the mail today. I have a fun little online side venture going where I sell items that I make out of my recycled junk mail, and my hand-rolled paper beads are featured in this book. So, I had to order one! It is also being published out of Australia & New Zealand under the name "Cool Hunting: Green."

Besides the fact that "Junk Mail Gems" is in it, this is a pretty nice little book. It is well designed and every page features beautiful full-color photography of another cool object. Nobody paid to be in this book...artists from around the globe submitted their work for consideration, which makes for some pretty interesting designs you probably have not have seen before!

New Winter Project

No question, I am a dork at heart. For a long time I have been fascinated by the shrinking gap between the computer and the real world. Technology like rapid prototyping and 3D projection systems have been a big part of my interest in design.

Here is a project I am planning on building this winter.
A low cost desk top Fabber, seems easy enough right?

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