When they ask me how ideas are born, or the ever recurrent and hollow question: "what is your inspiration when you design?", I find myself pondering the subject on two levels. I believe ideas can come from different sources, and I do not think that there...
Back when everything still had a name of its own, designers were those people who defined products, furniture, lamps, tools, appliances and new devices. Couturiers made clothes, and if these could be called haute couture, then they were presented in Paris. Graphic artists looked after...
The changing financial situation in Europe is affecting consumer goods. As a new element in the game, the present structural crisis has increased the complexity of the environment, affecting every link in the packaging chain for all kinds of products. As a result, consumers’ attitudes shift...
“Unhappy is the land that needs heroes”, wrote Berthold Brecht in 1938, in his Life of Galileo. Searching for people of supposedly super abilities and powers as an answer to society’s problems means divesting of the individual and collective responsibility to reflect and act. Resorting...
"From planting mangrove trees to bicycle-and-bullhorn early-warning systems, many of the most effective tools are about mobilising people, not expensive technology...
The wat we see a design process is mainly determined by our method of working. Our workshop is the safe "haven" where we create our furniture and objects. After the initial sketches we make a full-scale model, wich is then adjusted, tested and remodelled several times,...
Reinventar los stocks con la incorporación de nuevos materiales que mejoren las prestaciones y estimulen la atención del consumidor, esa es la receta que ha planteado hoy el diseñador y director de comunicación de Sanserif Creatius, José Antonio Giménez, para superar la recesión del sector...
Cuando una publicación cuenta con la opinión de tres responsables de diseño de firmas tan reconocidas como Volvo, Peugeot y Mazda… podría pensarse que sólo se habla de automóviles, nada más lejos de la realidad Tony Hunter, Amko Leenarts y Luciana Silvares hablan de futuro,...
“Veinte firmas internacionales y un par de sorpresas”, así definía Hiatus el director de comunicación de Sanserif Creatius, José Antonio Giménez, que es también el encargado de reunir a profesionales con “algo que decir” en cada una de las publicaciones vinculadas a Articulado, un libro...
Cinco diseñadores y una infiltrada que sabe mucho de esto del diseño… Ariadna Roussad, colaboradora de varias publicaciones especializadas. Es sólo una muestra de lo que se podrá leer en Hiatus, la continuación de Articulado, que ya está calentando motores a falta de los últimos...
