"How do you use design to bring new order to your home or work environment (e.g. sorting socks, herding kittens, container stories)? Have you used design to enhance your economic, expressive, or social opportunities (e.g. self-branding, creative campaigning, the new corner store)?"
Graphic Designers are sure to know of Ellen Lupton's well-known design publication Design Writing Research, however I would like to profile her project with twin sister Julia Lupton, called Design Your Life. DYL exemplifies the power of design thinking, when applied and associated to lifestyle, social situations and everyday life. This is a great project and resource from two key design voices of today. Contribute your own examples of how you Design Your Life.
"Over the past fifteen years, the word “design” has been bandied about in the popular press, as designer jeans, designer teapots, and designer drugs have captured our imagination—if not our understanding. When we hear the word design, we often think of a sleekly styled product or a great piece of fashion or an attractively decorated room. We might also think of the professional designers who have been trained to create such objects or environments. Design Your Life is not about shopping or decorating. Nor is it about a caste of specialists endowed with mysterious talents and impenetrable secrets." (2005 Manifesto)
The Principles:
ORDER: Use principles of design to organize and improve your environment at home, at work, and in the world.
OPPORTUNITY: Use design skills to enhance your expressive, economic, and social horizons.
GO PUBLIC: Use design to communicate with style and substance to publics large and small.
BE YOUR OWN BRAND: Put your own stamp on what you make and do.
PRODUCE MORE, CONSUME LESS: Design it yourself using digital tools and craft skills.
SPEND MORE, BUY LESS: Make fewer, better, and more beautiful consumer choices
TIME BY DESIGN: Use design to take control of the clock.
LIFE STORIES: Raise creative kids and grow old in style.
Link: Design Your Life
Does illustration and graphic design have a role to play in climate change? On September 20th, 2007 at London College of Communication, Eco-Labs open the discussion as part of the 2007 London Design Festival. Greening of Design & Illustration will include speakers representatives from leading UK sustainability design studio, Thomas Matthews and the British Council.
Eco-Labs explain: As creative communicators we are in a position to help to change attitudes – working towards ultimately changing behavior patterns, policies and systems. Here is a challenge for designers and illustrators: visualize a better low energy future. We used to see visions of the future with jet packs and monorails. Now we need to mainstream a picture of a more human sized, earth connected and energy realistic future.
Link: Eco-Labs
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