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Oregon Manifest

David Goligorsky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:20:23 +0000

Oregon Manifest is the red letter event in the capitol of the bicycling world. This event spans from October 2 all the way through November 8th, promising six weekends of celebrating of the art, craft, and community of bicycling.

Of the events, I’m most excited about the Constructor’s Design Challenge. This is a competition that invites extreme ingenuity to bicycle building that aims to smash together a Venn diagram of combined performance, utility, and aesthetics. Registration is open until July 31st and we’re already seeing a phenomenal list of legendary frame-builders rising to the occasion including Vanilla, Independent Fabrication, Richard Sachs, Ira Ryan, and other favorite builders of mine. What’s more, the event is being judged by Rob Forbes (the founder of Design Within Reach,) Sky Yaeger (cycling industry visionary and creative mind at Swobo), Ron Sutphin (president of United Bicycle Institute), and Bryant Bainbridge (product creation at Specialized Bicycles.)

The grand prize of the Constructor’s Design Challenge is an incredible bespoke suit from Timothy Everest, the tailor for Rapha.

As you can see, this is going to be a monumental event!

ALEX WIPPERFÜRTH, Thursday, May 21st at Stanford University

David Goligorsky — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:16:17 +0000

The next speaker in the David H. Liu Lecture Series in Design at Stanford is Alex Wipperfürth.

The talk will be at 8:00pm on Thursday, May 21st, 2009. It will be in (Braun Hall, Building 320) in Room 105 at Stanford University. Hope to see you there!

Wipperfürth is a partner at Dial House in San Francisco. He is the author of Brand Hijack, and upcoming books, The Co-Creation Myth and The Fringe Manifesto. Dial House is part think-tank and part creative hot shop. The client list is diverse: from fringe (Napster, Doc Martens, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Jones Soda, Red Stripe, Altoids) to cutting edge (Current TV, New Yorker Magazine) to blue chip (Diageo, IBM, P&G/Clorox, Toyota, Coca-Cola). Projects range from innovative strategy, innovative research, meaningful creative expressions with DIY production to brand innovation. In earlier work, Wipperfürth had interviewed actual cult members and people in "consumer cults" (like Apple or Harley-Davidson fanatics) and made fascinating insights about their similarities.

Dev Patnaik book launch at Stanford University’s d.school

David Goligorsky — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:47:57 +0000

On May 6th, Stanford’s d.school is hosting a book launch lecture and reception for Dev Patnaik’s Wired to Care. The book explores the role of empathy and human-centric design principles for driving successful business practice and strategy. Dev Patnaik is an alum of the Stanford Product Design program, founder/principal at Jump Associates, and adjunct professor at Stanford University. I had the pleasure of being in his Needfinding class… one of the results of this class included a drum machine for dogs using the Arduino platform, some piezoelectric sensors, Ardrumo, Garage Band, a MIDI library, and a speaker output. All controlled by a border collie.

RSVP for the launch by May 4th. Lecture and reception at the d.school from 7:00-9:00pm on May 6th.

DR. JON CAGAN, This Monday at Stanford University!

David Goligorsky — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:19:10 +0000

The next speaker in the David H. Liu Lecture Series in Design at Stanford is Dr. Jon Cagan.

Dr. Cagan is the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s graduate program in Product Development and a distinguished professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Cagan has written two fantastic books on the topic of product development: Creating Breakthrough Products and The Design of Things to Come. Both books skillfully navigate the arc from the fuzzy front end of product development all the way up to program approval. The texts also bridge the chasm between qualitative and quantitative values in a way that is actually understandable. His Liu Lecture will be about the emerging research in the creative Design process and the role of emotion in product usage.

The talk will be at 8:00pm on Monday, May 4th, 2009. It will be in Braun Hall (Building 320) in Room 105. Hope to see you there!

Here’s the abstract:

Emerging research is uncovering the cognitive basis of creative design and the emotional basis of product usage. This talk will present studies in both of these areas. From the perspective of how designers create innovative solutions, we will look at a series of cognitive studies that uncover how designers utilize both useful and misleading information while carrying open goals of unsolved design problems. From the perspective of the person using the product, emotion plays a critical role. We will examine new methods to capture aesthetic preferences and agent-based computational tools that use those preferences to guide generation of preferred design forms.

ArtPrize

David Goligorsky — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:24:10 +0000

ArtPrize is the largest art competition in the world with prizes 10 deep. First place artist takes home a quarter million, which would probably afford you the opportunity to finally get those Golden brand acrylics you’ve had your eye on.

Partners & Spade, complimentary 2008 tax preparation TODAY ONLY

David Goligorsky — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:27 +0000

Partners & Spade, the surreal NYC aviary/retail store/brand consultancy/dreamland is offering complimentary 2008 tax preparation by CPA Steve Stojowski at the 40 Great Jones St. window between 12-8pm. Today. April 14th.

ANDY SPADE, this Wednesday at Stanford University

David Goligorsky — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:09:09 +0000

The first Liu Lecture of 2009 is this Wednesday! April 15th!

Andy Spade
April 15th, 8:00PM Building 320, room 105
Stanford University

All Liu Lectures are free and open to the public. See you there!

Spring 2009 Liu Lectures in Design at Stanford University

David Goligorsky — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:19:13 +0000

poster design by Andreas Brændhaugen
click on the poster to view a larger size

I’m really excited to present the lineup for this Spring’s David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design. All talks will begin at 8pm in building 320, room 105. Every lecture is free and open to the public!

Andy Spade will be speaking on Wednesday, April 15th. Spade had over a decade of experience with top advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, and TBWA/Chiat/Day managing accounts with companies such as Coca Cola, Evian, Reebok, Lexus, and Coach. He’s the branding and marketing man behind Kate Spade and Jack Spade (the companies that he and his wife created.) He has also been tapped to design the experiences of a number of companies including Delta’s Song Airlines and J. Crew retail experiment The Liquor Store. Spade’s latest project is Partners & Spade. It includes a highly conceptual retail experience in downtown Manhattan. Beyond all these business ventures, Spade is heavily involved in the art world. He is a patron to emerging artists, co-owner of a gallery, and curator of several exhibitions. Spade’s projects merge emotional branding, experience design, brilliant collaboration, and always a touch of surrealism.

Dr. Jonathan Cagan will be speaking on Monday, May 4th. Dr. Cagan is a co-director of the Masters in Product Development program at Carnegie Mellon and also the co-director for the school’s Center for Product Strategy and Innovation. He has the title of Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and holds appointments in the School of Design and Computer Science. He has expertise in product development and innovation methods for early stage product development. Both his design methods and computer-based design research have been applied in a variety of industries. Dr. Cagan is the author of two books: Creating Breakthrough Products (co-authored with Craig Vogel), and The Design of Things to Come (co-authored with Peter Boatwright and Craig Vogel). He has consulted with a variety of small and large companies in diverse areas on product development, brand strategy, and strategic planning. He is co-founder and chief technologist of DesignAdvance Systems, Inc., a company focused on developing CAD software for the early synthesis processes. Cagan teaches New Product Development at Carnegie Mellon and runs executive training sessions in small and large companies.

Alex Wipperfürth will be speaking on Thursday, May 21st. Wipperfürth is a partner at Dial House in San Francisco. He is the author of Brand Hijack, and the upcoming The Co-Creation Myth and The Fringe Manifesto. Dial House is part think-tank and part creative hot shop. The client list is diverse: from fringe (Napster, Doc Martens, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Jones Soda, Red Stripe, Altoids) to cutting edge (Current TV, New Yorker Magazine) to blue chip (Diageo, IBM, P&G/Clorox, Toyota, Coca-Cola). Projects range from innovative strategy, innovative research, meaningful creative expressions with DIY production to brand innovation. In earlier work, Wipperfürth had interviewed actual cult members and people in “consumer cults” (like Apple or Harley-Davidson fanatics) and made fascinating insights about their similarities.

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David Goligorsky — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:33:39 +0000

One of the finer things to come from the Bush Jr. era. It’s on eBay and the auction ends in a few days! Interestingly enough, the piece in Germany. (via Kempt)

Tweed Run, London January 24th 2009

David Goligorsky — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:56:46 +0000

The first Tweed Run took place in London recently with about 150 cyclists wearing tweeds and the like. A veritable Gentleman’s Whiskey and Chat on two wheels. We need to bring this stateside. Any takers?

More images can be found at Yorgo Tloupas’ blog and through this Flickr member.

Humans, Wow

David Goligorsky — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:36:56 +0000

Gary Hustwit’s “Objectified” film

David Goligorsky — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:16:45 +0000

Gary Hustwit, the director known for his documentary film on the Swiss typeface, Helvetica, has just released a first glimpse of his latest work. He’s spent considerable time interviewing product design’s heads of state and put together Objectified.

I’m especially inspired because in just 90 seconds of preview, there were a few familiar faces. David Kelley, a co-founder of IDEO, is an alumnus from my graduate program and is a major part of the Stanford Design program and d.school. We have had the pleasure of visiting his incredible home, which was designed by Ettore Sottsass, and saw the garage, which houses part of his collection of fantastic vehicles. Bill Moggridge is another co-founder of IDEO and is lauded as a founder of interaction design. He’s the author of a book on the subject and we’ve had the honor of his company over beers in the courtyard in front of our workspace. I can’t wait to see this film.

Louis Agassiz

David Goligorsky — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:06:57 +0000

The statue of Louis Agassiz, fallen from the Zoology building at Stanford after the earthquake in 1906. Someone was quoted in the papers as saying Louis Agassiz “was great in the abstract, but not in the concrete.”

Martin Puryear

David Goligorsky — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:28:18 +0000

The SFMOMA is running an exhibit of Martin Puryear’s sculptures. With tremendous thanks to Chris and Kate, who got me a museum membership, I’ve visited the exhibit twice already. I really liked every single piece without exception, but I think my favorite was Old Mole (1985) shown above.

Mr. Matsumoto

David Goligorsky — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:15:54 +0000

These wood and brass sculptures of common objects are phenomenal. They are by Mr. Matsumoto, who will have an exhibit of this work at the Paul Smith shop on Floral Street from September 15-20 to coincide with London Fashion Week and London Design Festival. (via Dezeen)

Upcoming Design Festivals

David Goligorsky — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:41:51 +0000

For all you design globetrotters:

London Design Festival is coming up on September 13-23, 2008.

Design Miami/Basel will take place from December 3-6, 2008.

Gentleman’s Whiskey & Chat

David Goligorsky — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:26:02 +0000

Thank you all so much for coming out to the Perpenduum Society of the Gentleman’s Whiskey & Chat! By all accounts, it was a great success.

Thanks to all the Gentlemen and Gentleladies that came out to Somerville’s Union Square on a rainy Friday evening. Thank you to GRAND for opening up their fantastic shop to our hullaballoo. Keep checking in on their fantastic design offerings! Thank you to Bloc 11 (the sister shop to Davis Square’s Diesel Cafe) for providing delicious comestibles and coffee. I highly recommend visiting Bloc 11 for a latte (perfect latte art) or a full meal. I especially like their egg sandwich on rosemary focaccia on a weekend morning. Thank you to our musical guests, The Simon Brothers (alter ego of rock group The Double-Stops) and Haruki Naginata. Thank you to Cornerstone and Bushmills for supplying not only their Bushmills Original whiskey, but also their Black Bush single malt matured in a sherry-seasoned oak cask. Both were smooth and delicious.

It was incredible to have so many people come out in all their finery for an evening of refined taste and discussion over our favorite drink. We hope this will become a tradition, so please stay tuned.

Photos are available on Flickr from Perpenduum’s own Eric and also from Sushiesque (whose blog is here!)

Whiskey & Chat, Shameless Plug

perpenduum — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:20:57 +0000

Our friend Jeremy Nunn, also of Haruki Naginata, has put together a gorgeous poster for an event we are holding in a couple of weeks.

Event details are on the Whiskey & Chat page.