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Research paper written in collaboration with Erik L. van Bergen for PDMA NL. The power of the mind: Visual thinking in innovation
Research project that I did together with Marta Sá, Gijs Kunst, Geert van der Linden and Robert Peterson about the impact of design policies in countries competitiveness. You can download the article here.
Who is a designer? what entitles him or her as one? what ability does he or she possesses to be the one responsible of designing our environment? What role is there left to play by everyone else? Human beings are curious by nature, and our curiosity is primarily based on maintaining our very basic senses [...]
*only available in spanish Artículo que escribí para RforRelease, puedes visitar la publicación gratuita y ver este escrito con fotografías del evento pg. 68 El día y la hora pactados por los chicos de Mitosis010 para llevar acabo su evento finalmente pasaron. Este 24 y 25 de abril se reunieron los exponentes más importantes de [...]
So, let’s say that you are wealthy and rich, let’s imagine that you don’t have the necessity to generate any kind of income, you simply do not have to worry about it…well, then what would you do? … I assume that for some of you this will be the opportunity to fantasize with different kinds [...]
Ok, so iPad was launched and as any apple product in the recent years a lot of worldwide attention was put into it, I had the opportunity to watch a streaming video from the launching event, in a sort of way I felt that the crowd behaved somehow like in a concert, by moments the [...]
Perhaps the very repeated question of “how will the future look like?” have to be reformulated to “how will the future NOT look like?”, for what I know this might be far easier to predict if we take on account that we live in a deeply individualistic society immerse in a world full of generalized [...]
*only available in spanish CNC – control númerico por computadora, cada vez más al alcance de nuestras manos, aquí les dejo DIYLILCNC 1.0 un proyecto desarrollado por el instituto de arte de chicago para que cualquier individuo con conocimientos básicos de herramientas pueda generar su propio CNC de 3 ejes totalmente funcional, con una inversión [...]
Since the last 1st of November in Monterrey, Mexico there has been a corrupt transit police cleanup, trust exams are being applied to more than 1400 elements, those who don’t approve it will be fired from this department. A couple of days ago I saw a video that the behavioral economics investigator Dan Ariely posted [...]
Sugar skulls, engravings, poetry and paintings are some of the media that Mexicans use to make fun of the death, elements with which a lot of us grow and coexist, that is the way we say to the death that we don’t care so much about her and that we are waiting for her to [...]
*only available in spanish El SEE ( Sharing Experience Europe ) es un proyecto de once naciones europeas entre las que se encuentran Dinamarca, Reino Unido, Francia, Finlandia e Italia, entre otras, para compartir experiencia y conocimiento acerca de como realizar e integrar políticas nacionales de diseño a otros países del mundo. En su primer [...]
*only available in spanish Gracias a el blog design mind de los diseñadores del mundialmente famoso despacho Frog Design fue que me encontré con el termino chino ShanZhai. Shanzai es el termino utilizado en china para referirse a los productos piratas que salen al mercado para satisfacer la necesidad de personas que no podrían comprar [...]
First of all the following statement needs to be done: 50% OF THE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN MEXICO FEELS DISCRIMINATED That’s right, days ago I read this in el universal (in Spanish) and even though for Mexican people this might not be a surprise, the surprising thing about this is that the president of the [...]
A couple of days ago a friend took me to a restaurant that is in the middle of the road from Monterrey to Saltillo, called “El Pariente” (which means something like The Family Relative, but its like the “pal” or “mate” expression in english), when I was coming down the car I realized that I [...]
