Warren Berger spent two years studying designers in an attempt to understand what exactly it is that they do:
Designers question: to be more specific, they ask what Bruce Mau calls “the stupid questions” – the kind that are actually profound, but can make you look stupid because they address fundamental issues. When designers ask [...]
What do designers do? Ask stupid questions of course
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 3 December, 2009 to the design and art subset
Meeting the makers
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 16 June, 2008 to the comment subset
New York designer Scott Ballum is embarking on an ambitious year long project to meet, face-to-face, the people who produce the goods he buys, and also learn more about the production processes involved in their manufacture.
There’s probably not too many of us who give much thought to the mechanics that results in a can of [...]
