The Design Process vs Rapid Prototyping

I’m a Marketing Designer and throughout my career I’ve often struggled with the lexicon of Graphic Design. In part this was due to my Advertising Design training from ACCD where concepts and value had to be encapsulated within a single proposition. A single …

(via Punkkat's Blog)

Placement of an Articulated Design Engine

Currency as an Articulated Engine Design Component.
Zoelite, what a great word. It sounds, well, like zeolite, something you might wear, maybe not, but certainly, if development continues, something you may eventually drive.
Zeolite is a material and technology which …

(via Punkkat's Blog)

In the beginning there was and there was not.

Design is both service oriented and self serving. It is an effective, dangerously effective, tool in delivering a message. Politically speaking, it is the most powerful tool available. More powerful than Broadcast or Radio both of which require more support, more money, …

(via Punkkat's Blog)

What type of enigine would you design.

I began a series of definitions for my business’ marketing and found something very interesting. Very interesting with respect to this group. And thought I’d surface the observation made while defining “tools”. 
Living in Switzerland I became familiar with two …

(via Punkkat's Blog)

The Extended Online Family - Product and Tool Siblings

Several years ago when asked to develop a logo for a startup and later their website - as their product was then still in definition - the project surfaced several interesting challenges.

Namely; How can you visually articulate the character of a brand in flux, and …

The Mechanical Spirit. Buoys and Meons

Reason is an ill fated lifeboat tossed within a creative sea.

Internet technology and the search for buoys
Many years ago a small island participated in a study. Researchers from around the world converged at once, taking its inhabitants by storm. All males above 13 …

Over Bodies do We Thrive - Africa

Technorati Profile

Darfur is located in Sudan. And it is not.

It hangs in your bedroom. Drowns in your coffee. It is hung to dry as clothes and hats.

Darfur, and all of Africa is being eviscerated for the sake of the world. Though news agencies have begun …

Growing Interest and Mental Health

"Hello, thanks for coming in, please take a seat."

The interview and mental tape begin.

"I am stupid", begins the recent grad. "So much that I'll walk into Dailey the other day with an idea I knew would work, I mean you should see it, great creative. Almost sold …

UX Design, Depreciated Perspective Through 1's & 0's

Consider what knowledge is. It's information. It is fact. It is trivia. It is the aggregation of loose threads assembling interest. It is also imagination, consideration, and the cognitive processes of discovery and research.

Knowledge is also a noun, and as such …

Project Revital, look for it.

Project Revital

Homelessness is an instilled institution created to support a tier of our society. Its intent rakes of the populace those who have a deteriorating ability to survive. Its reason, to deplete their motivation. It marks and labels them as those who can …

Does anyone have the right to die

17 minutes. It takes a State seventeen minutes to execute a man. One may argue, ..and about a zillion dollars to keep him alive.

There area numerous arguments revolving around Capital punishment. Is it just? Is the person guilty? Is there any possibility, as it has …

Censorship

We need to be careful before we begin to loose the resource necessary to decide for ourselves. Information.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman recently endorse a measure requiring YouTube to remove all videos relating to Al-Queda training. I wanted to watch one - not to build a …

Where does it end

I see people by the color of my eyes. Sometimes they're black, dark, sinister, marauding. Others they're yellow, standoffish and rove like wild hyenas. They're also brown, usually drunk with little regard for my rights of possessions, health, family or safety.

…

Chad Dressing Recipe for 2008

Technorati Profile

Considering this election year and that events always transpire, Information will soon again have its expiration date. Although always present, it looses impact if stored. Immediately after discovery, it looses purpose if not applied. Managed …

Design is Dead

What is design?

Recalling a friend who would stop what he was doing, excited about having spotted yet another example of "design" the elixir of our profession floating about, shouting "There it is!" pointing towards a towel, rythymic background chatter, or the …

Insert Country Here

Technorati Profile

I wrote this for a contest offered by Vanity fair some time ago, maybe 2, 3 years ago and have made some edits with a lil help from...

Insert Country Here
By George Sandoval

What with our diverse cultural mix, the large influx of countless …

Transparent Dispair - Wellness in America

Technorati Profile

Transparent Despair - Wellness in America

An improved health care system after four years still meanders through accountability. Not unlike the families that pace down hallways, within waiting rooms or driving absently along our roadways. …