Building Adaptive Capacity: Towards a Design for Sustainability 3.0, by Michael Sammet As social, economic and ecological conditions continue to worsen and with the increasing sophistication and connectivity of information technology and social media, design for sustainability is now moving towards a new qualitatively different area of exploration: designing to build adaptive capacity.

bmdesign: Found this little doozy while going through some old presentations from the pre-BMD Love Blog days: Bob Levinson’s infamous Do This Or Die ad. Direct, honest, smart, no bullshit. The text from the ad has been copied below. Is this ad some kind of trick? No. But it could have been. And at exactly that point…

bmdesign: Found this little doozy while going through some old presentations from the pre-BMD Love Blog days: Bob Levinson’s infamous Do This Or Die ad. Direct, honest, smart, no bullshit. The text from the ad has been copied below. Is this ad some kind of trick? No. But it could have been. And at exactly that point…

That’s one of the hardest things to do in comics: to create a character through which the reader can actually feel his or her own emotional memories. It’s much easier in a novel, but when you’re in a sort of half-blind state of looking at pictures on a page, you’re always being bounced back off…

That’s one of the hardest things to do in comics: to create a character through which the reader can actually feel his or her own emotional memories. It’s much easier in a novel, but when you’re in a sort of half-blind state of looking at pictures on a page, you’re always being bounced back off…

Ive is renowned for having an ‘alchemical’ sense for engineering, and the limits of what one can do with metal. As design expert Stephen Bayley puts it: ‘He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence.’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its…

Ive is renowned for having an ‘alchemical’ sense for engineering, and the limits of what one can do with metal. As design expert Stephen Bayley puts it: ‘He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence.’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its…

While organizing information graphically for these more complex control panels, I also discovered a life-long fascination with psychology after we encountered the consumers’ resistance to touching the screens. Many research subjects recalled maternal admonishment about sitting too close to or touching their home TVs. That was a lesson that has lasted throughout my career–understanding and…

While organizing information graphically for these more complex control panels, I also discovered a life-long fascination with psychology after we encountered the consumers’ resistance to touching the screens. Many research subjects recalled maternal admonishment about sitting too close to or touching their home TVs. That was a lesson that has lasted throughout my career–understanding and…