The (massive/compulsive) consumption of data is a distinctive characteristic of our time. We have access to unlimited figures on current affairs, about our environment, about anything we may wish to know. We have always measured, weighed, compared, and quantified all sorts of aspects relating to...
Blog del diseño· 22/12/2011 Extracto: Hiatus es una publicación sin ánimo de lucro que compila reflexiones personales de referentes de todo el mundo para aportar una nueva visión del diseño actual. Una veintena de los principales referentes internacionales del diseño aportan su visión más particular sobre el...
The contest called for a prototype on a 1:1 scale, but the funds were not enough to make one. Or rather, the budget was not enough, but creativity was. An ingenuous exercise in recycling allowed a group of students advised by the professor Albert Esteve...
Design these days is overrated. While it is important that we live in functional and pleasing surroundings I think beauty and efficiency can be found in so many places other than a design showroom. I hope that modern design won't ever stop people from finding...
La Ley nº 7739 p.13 Extracto: El temido copago deja la puerta abierta a la concentración de jugados que aportará sentido común al colapso judicial y, paralelamente, permitirá reducir el déficit público. Una decisión técnica que, a pesar del inminente proceso electoral, parece que saldrá adelante...
One of the main features of present-day design is the diversity of simultaneously coexisting aesthetics reviving styles that originally made their mark in such key periods as the 1950s, 1970s or 1990s through the use of the graphic resources in force at those times. Each designer...
Sublime · October, 2011 Hiatus came into being as a guide for entrepreneurs and designers on how to improve the ecological efficiency of their communication and their products. The central message is that designers have a significant role to play in steering us towards the sustainable...
When talking about Armenian design nowadays, we must fist address its origins and Armenian culture in general. Having a culture with a long history and many different eras, being situated between West and East, Armenia has always been influenced by both, and this is true not...
Six years ago, having been unemployed for a year, doing crappy design projects and hearing all over fairs and factories: "Designers? What for? I can do this myself…", I was at the juncture of choosing between becoming a removals assistant, a security agent, or a...
When I came to New York I was introduced as “a young designer from the Coast.” Even though I’d lived in California for my first 22 years, I’d never heard the term “the Coast,” which was how New Yorkers referred to L.A. and San Francisco....
