Issue #23: Design Is All Around
This past week I enrolled in an online digital design program focusing on UI/UX. For years I’ve had this urge to learn design, but never really knew where to start. I’m finally taking the leap and diving in head first. Not really sure where this will take me, but I want to continue applying what I learn to this project and continue to add value.
“I believe in the power of design to “speak” to people…. the fact is that physical world manifests information in a silent way that reaches and influences us unconsciously as well as consciously. Hence the particular potency of the designed world. Messages are encoded into the built world by it’s designers, and they are decoded by consumers.” ~Galen Cranz
Stay tuned for more. 😎
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READ, WATCH, LISTEN ⤵
WATCH: TEDx Talk - Body Conscious Design
(Length: 16 minutes)
A great talk on how everything around us is constantly shaping and molding our bodies. Jader Tolja is an italian MD and psychotherapist, he teaches Body Conscious Design at the Architecture Department of the Bratislava Polytechnic, at the Domus Academy of Design in Milan, and other universities and design academies. His area of research is the understanding of the specific relationships among body, mind and space.
READ: Top 10 Design Flaws In The Human Body
(Reading Time: ~5-6 minutes)
A light and quirky read on some of the flaws of the human body and some theoretical “fixes.”
“ Problem: The human brain evolved in stages. As new additions were being built, older parts had to remain online to keep us up and running… It’s as if the brain were a dysfunctional workplace, where young employees (the forebrain) handled newfangled technologies like language while the old guard (the midbrain and hindbrain) oversaw the institutional memory—and the fuse box in the basement. A few outcomes: depression, madness, unreliable memories, and confirmation bias. ”
WIKI: Labanotation (aka Kinetography)
Did you know there were notation systems out there that analyzed and recorded human movement?
I went down a Wikipedia 🐇🕳 this week on dance and its history.
Primarily used for dance, the Laban system is an “alphabet” system in that symbols represent movement components through which each pattern is “spelled out” (unlike some other notation systems, which use distinct symbols to represent established movement forms). You can read it like you would music on a page. 👇
AESTHETICALLY PLEASING 👀
Olympic Diving Diagrams (1912)
Keeping with the theme of taking a leap, here are some diagrams showing the trajectory of the major dives as performed at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
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TINY INSIGHT 🧠
Everything that we are designing, is designing us back.
We should be adapting our ideas around anatomy and our bodies.
Not the other way around.
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To Reinventing Ourselves,
Galo Alfredo Naranjo