NICOLA FROM BERN

Personal Blow Molding Gun

Nicola — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:24:32 +0000

by George Fereday

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Design Thinking: A Useful Myth

Nicola — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:57:07 +0000

by Don Norman

worth reading!

Dots

Nicola — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:40:43 +0000

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Produce everything you can locally

Nicola — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:36:16 +0000

«Produce everything you can locally. Virtualize everything else. The value of your home will be based on the ability of your community to offer energy independence, food security, economic vitality, and protection. Survivalist stockpiles and zero footprint frugality are pathways to failure.»

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Fucking Hell

Nicola — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:47:13 +0000

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DMY Berlin 2010

Nicola — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:02:57 +0000

Below you can see pictures of my booth at the outstanding Hangar 5 at Berlin Tempelhof.
Following designs are exhibited: Rearranged, Indie Furniture, Crutch

DMY Berlin

Creativity is just connecting things

Nicola — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:02:12 +0000

By Steve Jobs

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences that other people.

Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.

The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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9 to 5

Nicola — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:59:22 +0000

I waited so they might describe to me this place of dreams where they worked, where they give you lots of money, all time – where you only work a set number of hours. I waited for more than a year for them to speak about it. They spoke about Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, about the Cambio Campagnolo, about their stamp collections. Finally, I understood: they looked on their place of work with a sense of horror.

Excerpt from Enzo Mari, The Conversation Series, by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Enzo Mari during the launch of THE IN TEL LEC TUAL WORK
Apirl 13th, 2010, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan

A true Guideline for every Designer

Nicola — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:41:58 +0000

By designing without any stylistic or formal preconceived notions, and tending towards the natural formation of things, one gets the essence of a product. This means using the most appropriate materials of the correct thickness, reducing working hours to a minimum, combining a number of functions in one element, making all attachments simple, using as few different materials as possible for each single object, trying to abolish the need for finishing off in detail, doing any necessary lettering during the original pressing, and bearing in mind that the object should take up as little storage space as possible and should assemble itself automatically when ready for use. As for this last effect, one should, when possible, use the force of gravity, remembering that a hanging object costs less than one standing up. These are only some of the tricks of the trade which an experienced designer finds useful for coping with problems as he goes along.

Excerpt from «A prismatic Lamp», Bruno Munari’s Design as Art (1966)

Conscientious redux

Nicola — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:06:34 +0000

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