Design Fiction

Sascha Pohflepp Presenting at Art Center Thursday July 15 21:09 © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

Just A Note: Design Fiction Is Not Design You’d Do Anyway + Motion Graphics

Just a thought and a note which is not an edict — just to say that Design Fiction can work as a way to have a thorough, sensible story that represents what could be. Yes, certainly it can. I’d argue that … Continue reading

Pretty Maps LA by Aaron Staup Cope © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

Pretty Maps – 20×200 Editions

Some of you may have noticed, mostly probably not — but the Laboratory has expanded its ranks. It’s starting to feel like a proper design collective in here. One of the lovely attributes of the people in the Lab are … Continue reading

Tuesday January 03, 15:06:53 © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

A Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2011

LOS ANGELES Projects * It was a year of mostly audio creations ahead and around of Project Audio for Nokia. Some very exciting little bits of design, fiction and design, fact. These will continue into 2012 with some more public … Continue reading

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Short Note — The Product Design Venn Diagram: Updates

This is maybe even less than a short note to point to a little more conversation that @bruces and others are having regarding the Hubberly Venn Diagram I mentioned a few blog posts ago. @AnneGalloway took some fast-furious notes of … Continue reading

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Weekending 11132011

Hello. It’s time for the weekending post. A few things. First — I was introduced to this graphic above from @bruces. It shows a Venn diagram showing a kind of perspective of what-could-be. For that reason, I chose to interpret … Continue reading

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Weekending 10302011

Oh, okay. Last week I was in London. There was some fun, cool Nokia stuff going on — besides Nokia World, which I didn’t attend only because there were also other things going on, including this event at the Design … Continue reading

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Thrilling Wonder Stories..London Edition

Thrilling Wonder Stories WONDER STORIES 3 Live in London and New York Oct 28th Created by Liam Young [Tomorrows Thoughts Today] And Geoff Manaugh [BLDGBLOG] In Association with the Architectural Association, Studio-X NYC, Popular Science We have always regaled ourselves … Continue reading

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Weekending 10232011

Okay. Maybe we will get back into the swing of the weekending note. This one won’t be comprehensive, but a note nonetheless to note a few things. First, something I found while flipping through the Internet that got me thinking … Continue reading

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Design Fiction + Advanced Designing + Trust in Volume Quarterly

The most recent — now a month or two old — issue of Volume Quarterly was on the topic of The Internet of Things. And within that was a small sub-volume of essays and articles on Trust compiled by Scott Burnham … Continue reading

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Design and Storytelling at AIGA Pivot

Back in 2010 at the University of Michigan Taubman School’s conference on “The Future of Technology” is where I first started thinking about the future as represented in graphs. I brought this visual graphical prop back again at the AIGA … Continue reading