Here is a little comic inspired in a review of a book about Dieter Rams.

This is the review:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/9472/dieter-rams-less-and-more.html

And here is my creation. Get fun!...

Knockin

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Listening exercise

I´ve a little exercise to improve your english.

I took a fragment of a program on BBC radio that tells our story through different objects.
The program is very interesting and recommend it.

Now, with respect to the exercise, what you have to do is listen carefully to the fragment. Then, in the order that most pleases you, perform the following activities:

1) Reorder the paragraphs by placing a number inside the brackets.
2) Fill in the blanks with the missing word.

Here is the fragment:



And here is the exercise:

[ ] Below it are ________ eye sockets, and a straight nose with ________ nostrils. The square jaw juts assertively ________, and the lips are closed in a strong ________ pout.-

[ ] Although ________ see him only from the waist up, he's almost nine feet high, and he ________ whatever gallery he's in.

[ ] Standing below him, you're immediately conscious of the solid ________ rock that he's made out of.

[ ] The heavy rectangular head is huge, almost as ________ as the torso below. The overhanging brow is one ________ line, running across the whole ________ of the head.

[ ] The only details on the body are the prominent ________.

[ ] In comparison to the head, the torso is only ________ in. The arms are barely ________ at all, and the hands disappear ________ the stone block of a swelling paunch.

[ ] When you're working hard ________ like this, and have only got ________ tools to chip away with, you can't do detail, so everything about this giant had ________ be big. And bold.


Finally, considering the description that makes the text, make a sketch of what you think the text is describing.

Here is the solution:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/moai.jpg/

Did you draw something like that?

I hope it was useful or entertaining

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The genius...

This time I will share with you a very interesting series of the BBC.
It's called "The Genius of Design" and tries to show us how the design changed us socially, economically and culturally from the everyday to the massive.

This first chapter introduces us to the world of design contrasting the beginning, where designer and manufacturer were the same person and the means of production were handmade, with today specializes in mass production and automated.

This series is very promising, because it has good archival material and "the opinion of major reference design," therefore the XX century as the century, as Dieter Rams or J Mays (Ford Global design chiefs)

Here, some of the objects that series use to illustrate us.


Soon am going to comment Chapter 2. See you.

Hello!

This time, I would like to share a set of print advertisements of pencils, pens and markers. Some of them very ingenious, some funny and some for vintage´s fans.

Lets Start with a work of Fisher Space Pen Co. They used as a reference an urban legend that tells the NASA spent millions in R & D (research and development) for a pen wich their astronauts can use in space.
With that myth behind, and with the heavy phrase "civilized space since 1968" Fisher shows a typical businessman, wearing suit and a hard look on his face, with a little detail, and it is not a man, but some alien with a Fisher's pen in his pocket's suit.
In my opinion, is a job with a very strong message and a good accomplishment.

The second work is a campaign of Pilot Pen Co. in conjunction with LEGO, which aims to promote a new product from Pilot Pen Co., a pen with extra-fine technology of 0.25 mm.

The result is a very nice series of posters, which you can see a different shape of LEGO in each of them, wearing one or more tattoos, done with that pen.

The third proposal is one of the most appealing, for an obvious reason, the Thai firm Prockey conducted a campaign to promote their resistant to sun and water markers, putting all the meat on the grill. And this last one is literal.

In the three compositions that comprise the campaign you can see a model, very relaxed on the beach, wearing her bikini painted on the body with durable ink markers. This means that the ink is actually resistant to the waves and sun.

This campaign has some controversy in some specialized forums regarding the use of women as objects to sell or even considers whether the campaign is really only emotive or positions the
product on the market.

Quizás quisiste decir: Some remarkables advertising

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Finally, a memory. About 66 years ago in the midst of World War II, the firm Eversharp used this context as a trigger. In the picture you can see a member of the Navy giving the "right gift" to his beloved.


Personally, the traditional BIC pen is within my heart. I purchase from a 5 pens, I always find some in a pocket in the most opportune time and I definitely feel more comfortable knowing that I carry one with me


And now the bonus track. Admire what a simple pen like this can do in the hands of an artist.


I hope you enjoyed it. See you at next post. Bye!

¨Windoro¨ an industrial design review

It’s a fact, people need to touch things. In this case not a product.. ok, not directly. When we see a product behind a window shop we need to make contact. The result: A filled shopwindow. Filled of finger marks.

It´s a fact, People always touching the shopwindow, after you finished cleaning it.

Here, there is an innovation that could to solve this problem:


¨Windoro¨ is a window cleaning robot. It´s a PIRO´s development, the Pohang Institute of RObotic, in Korea.
For ¨Windoro¨ the goal is to keep clean the shopwindows, releasing the employees for this task.



Its consists of two modules similar in appearance, except that while one of the modules controls the movement, the other makes the dirty job, cleans the window using cloth wheels and detergent.
Both modules are moving together through the glass by magnets.

In my opinion it is a good initiative, a good development of technology but a very bad product, seeing it from the point of view of industrial design.

It surely depends on batteries to work. It needs attention from employees. It´s easy to steal. Its cost should be high. It makes your job relatively slow.

I believe that a better idea should be an axis system through which a single module to slides across the glass. Furthermore, this module could be of variable length extension to clean the entire glass in one stroke.

So, it would be programmed to perform periodic cleaning without requiring the operation of the employee.
To be more stable than the magnets could move faster through the glass.
It could be programmed to clean only critical areas of the glass.

It is definitely an interesting challenge for any industrial designer...

Font: http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2010/09/24/from-korea-a-robot-that-does-windows.php

Martin´s Bio

Hi everybody,
My name´s Martin. It´s a Latin name, because my parents like it. I´m Argentinian and I live in La Plata, a big city in the east of the country. I live with my parents and my two sisters. I ´m 24 years old, and I´m at university. I´m studying Industrial Design. I´m in my second year and I really like it.

I´m going to tell you about myself. I have short hair - it´s quite dark - and green eyes. I wear glasses, but I want to get a laser operation soon.

I think I´m a positive person. I´m quite shy but friendly when others get to know me. My mother says I´m very quiet - I think she means that I don´t talk too much!

In my free time I love reading and using the computer, I have much free time because I work only at weekends, but I have classes every day. I also go swimming on Thursday morning and play football on Monday and Thursday afternoon.

Please write soon and tell me about you and your life. Don´t send any forwards please.

Best wishes

Martin