UMPC the future?

a concept video of intel UMPC.
would it be the future?

pattern is still a important trend!

pic 1 is a radio, media play, ipod dock...and so on. the functions are not really breakthrough new, so let us just look at the design. a wrap form is still to regconize. but something interesting is like the pic 2, a design from ideo in 2005.

very simple wrap-form with an intensive, random (?) pattern. this kind of design methode begann with the designer marcel wanders with his design-box(maybe some has done it before, but he really did a great job...) .

a simple asia-like form, made of wood, with amazing beautiful patterns! till now, this kind of trend is still growing.

but why pattern? pattern is a sort of structure, shows a strong image and character, just like the grafiti we always see in the undergraound station. the grafic try to transfer massege, hsow its character. it is a very strong eye-catcher.

therfore, in the most case, they appear with a object with simple form. otherwise the form will compete with the pattern...

so try ur own graphic ;D

Let's talk about vw space up

in the name, Space Up, we can read, it is a car designed for a metro-life, where we don't have much room for a bigger car to park, but we do need more room for our stuff. that's the reason why space up is here.

first of all, about the proportion. we can notice that, the "head" of the car is much shorter than what vw has now. or we can say the head is much higher now. inorder to create more space in the car, the main body is not far away from a box. more straight line, more accurate looking.

the icon of this car , i would say, is the part under the logo. they just unified the bumper and the airing and create a small eye-catch area. a simple, well designed solution. so how it reminds me on "vw new beetle".

i know they are very different. but they both have a very simple and clean front part, a very "smooth area". it is not a super extremely high designed fancy car. but proportionally, it is very very nice. i like it.


HOWEVER, space up is very similiar to some japanese metro-cars, that appeared several years ago. short but high. vw didn't create a new vision of it. especially, if we look at the logo, which sits in a lifted area. THIS IS A TYPICAL DESIGN MARK OF TOYOTA. since 3-4 years, toyota makes every car with a logo in a lifted surface as the design icon of toyota.

result: a nice car but not "new"...my opinion

MIT is trying to accuse Frank o.Gehry

Frank o Gehry, one of the greatest Architect, has made numerous famous buildings, such like:

the Medienhafen in düsseldorf,


walt-disney concert hall,


gehry tower in hannover, DZ-Bank in Berlin...etc. all of them have been build in a unique "gehry" style, asymetric shape, flowing surfaces, metallic color. all these make the building just like sculpture.

the stata center of MIT, designed by gehry, was opened in 2004. it was once the mark of the school and successfu project. But why is MIT trying to accuse gehry now?

It has something to do with so-calles the resposibility of an architect (or designer). now, 3 years later, 2007, some details of the building is getting broken, water comes through the roof, the wall has some "gaps". should a architect or designer also be response of the quality of production? it is a moral question. sometimes, we can't control, how the product would be produced. however, we are like the lawyer of the user. we are the only one, who does'nt only care about the look, but the usability. that's the difference between art and design. we deliver a whole paket, we merge every aspect of professions. maybe, we are not direct response for it, but we should give more effort and concern about it.

cheers

Masi Oka is th enew ambassador of OLPC

OLPC (one laptop per child) is a project, try to help children in the case of education and so on.
they tend to put out an easy, intuitive used laptop with just 100 dollor.

This guy MASI OKA , from the hit v-series "HEROES" is the new ambassador of OLPC.
in the series, he is playing a guy, who lives in his own fantacy world, dreams to be a hero. a child-like adult, very honest and with a real heart.

i think he is a right guy to do this job ;D

Lagerfeld+Hadid

Karl Lagerfeld, this time not for fashion design, but archtecture!
with Hadid, they made this not "interesting" style (well, a hadid building is never usual!).

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