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The Professor Makes the Case: Design and Business Getting Together

December 18, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

In 1985, The Professor wrote a short essay that was published in the pages of Innovation, the periodical published by the Industrial Designers Society of America. The article was entitled “Design, the […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Macrotrends, Post Industrial Landscape

Angularity as Macrotrend: Part 1 @ Sneakers

November 16, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Sneakers again?!? You betcha! See the post “The Professor Finds a Pair” from 13 June 2014 for his previous sneaker pronouncements. Yes, but first the backstory: In 2003 and 2004, The Professor […]

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Design Disciplines, Macrotrends, Passions, Post Industrial Landscape, The Professor

The Professor Yells, Shouts and Scores concerning “Scream”

September 7, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

No, The Professor is not the examining the existential yell/yelp of the Edward Munch painting. And no, he’s not focused on the nicely nuanced Sarah Michelle Gellar movie about a […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture

The Professor and the Fictitious Fruit[s]

August 4, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

As The Professor has pursued his enthusiasm for teaching the design arts, he has occasionally had reasons to pursue conceptual projects. Usually these were next-generation studies of what a product might […]

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Design Disciplines, Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture, Projects Previous, Current, Future

The Professor Looks Back: Cameras 1994

July 12, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

    Toward the end of 1993, Graphis magazine offered The Professor a project to produce a column on products. It was a bold move on the part of Graphis […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture

The Professor: Self-Portrait in Products and Brands

July 9, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

In 1988, The Professor saw the work of Ashley Bickerton at Sonnabend Gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, NYC. It was a revelation. It was neither painting nor sculpture in […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Passions, Post Industrial Landscape

The Professor’s Process: Willful Misinterpretations #2

July 1, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Some years ago, The Professor was teaching in New York at Parsons School of Design. It was clear to The Professor, even in that late-1980s time period, that simply solving […]

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Design Disciplines, Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture

The Professor remembers: the Brookfield house

June 24, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

  The white 1800s farmhouse in the photo is near its end; it suffered from a bad address located at the ugly intersection between capitalism, real estate and zoning. Because […]

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Design Disciplines, Post Industrial Landscape

The Professor has a dream, writes a dead man

June 12, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Dear Ettore, Even though I only met you a few times, and even though you have been gone for seven years now [which is why I’m putting this out into […]

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Passions, Post Industrial Landscape, The Professor

The Professor opines on hidden history [3DP]

June 7, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Often when the subject of 3-D printing [3DP] comes up, especially out here in the San Francisco Bay area where The Professor is based, he finds himself chuckling. There are […]

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Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture

The Professor looks at the tampon box anew

June 6, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

[“tampon chandelier” courtesy of joana vasconcelos] The Professor met someone in Boise, Idaho who once reported that his Mom regularly used a Tampax® box to hide her best jewels and […]

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Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Market Product Alteration [PMPA], Uncategorized

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