Our favorite dudes Chance and Anthony. Ty and DRAM is dope too! Give it a good listen.
Knowledge is a love affair of answers.Wisdom is a love affair of questions.
--Julio olalla
AXIS, Now in Portfolio
Many of you have asked us to load the AXIS online. Axis is a gaming controller we designed for the "CTRL+S" workshop. What started as a quick 2 hour CAD exercise. Mainly for talking points about our model making process. Turned into a fun little portfolio project. We're super stoked about this, because we've been MIA from blogging for awhile. Sorry.
We're going to refine the model making presentation used @ CCA Saturday, and will upload it here in the next day.
WE'LL BE AT " CTRL+S "
If you have no plans for Saturday September 24, 2016. Between 1-5 PM come join the conversation at CCA in Timken Hall. I will be talking industrial design with Jason Mayden, Ti Chang, and Matt Swinton. Following the panel discussion there will be 4, 20 minute design workshops. I hope you can make it.
Gordon Murray The Mclaren F1 Designer
For this month's tech-talk we invite designer Gordan Murray to come talk cars, design, and career atPlayground. Gordan designs formula one cars for a living. He's a true mechanical thinker. I'd say he's more engineer minded than industrial design, but he does an amazing job at mixing science with art in creating innovative solutions. Gordon is famous for the iconic McLaren F1. A car that revolutionized many standards in modern cars today. The F1 introduced new techs such as: carbon fiber construction, automated rear spoiler, and ground control. Innovative for its time, but are things we take for-granted today. Currently Gordon continues to design. He's developed a lighter, more stronger chassis technology called iStream. Check it out here.
To me It's fascinating to hear other designers share their process. A common philosophy I hear often is: Fail. Fail a lot. Fail often. But learn from your failures and adjust as you move forward. I've taken a photo of my notebook as Gordon spoke. I'm honored to meet him and happy he signed and complimented my poor sketches.
LEARNINGS FROM ADWEEK
We love stalking Adweek for inspiration. A huge part of being an industrial designer is to pitch ideas. Sell a dream, a vision to a clients. The best way to do this I think, is through story telling. Industrial design isn't just about drawing awesome shit, CAD'ing sex appeal and cool aesthetics. To us its about capturing a clients DNA. Telling them who they are. Then telling them who/what they can become. It's more important than the final product. Lay the ground work before building the building. More and more we've realized that integrating a good analytical eye into our design process goes a long way. Be empathetic to who they are historically. Innovation is building upon the past.
Today I watched a Nike ad called "Unlimited You" -- My immediate reaction was... I thought "Just Do it" was already amazing. Cudos to Weiden & Kennedy for this one. They've captured the essence of "Just Do It" Then pushed the brand beyond it. I love it.
Adidas Y-3 Doodle
from good to great
I've been reading the book From Good to Great by Jim Collins. Like most popular informative books. The content often feel obvious. Yet it strikes me that we often overlook or under practice the values and work ethics given in these books. In one of the chapters I read this line:
"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out is largely a matter of conscious choices." --Jim Collins
I'm reminded of Malcom Gladwell's ten thousand hours of practice. Its true. Greatness is evidence of making proper decisions, and long hours of obsession and practice. Eventually you'll go from one whom appreciates to one who's a connoisseur. Are you good or great?
THIS IS WHAT APRIL FOOLS IS ABOUT
If you know us, you know we love pulling pranks on people. Here's an awesome one done by Virgin American Airlines. It shows big boys can have fun too, and that we all should add a little bit of silliness in our lives and work.
Made Forbes
Good Listening The Strumbellas "Spirits"
#WatchingTimeWithCS
Last Friday we posted an open invitation to the design community. Challenging anyone to take part in #WatchingTimeWithCS.
The whole thing started with the KAJ Alessi watch by Karim Rashid and a little dog. It then turned into a community fueled initiative that is loved and liked by KARIM himself. We're overwhelmed with everyone's enthusiasm and design submissions. As more people continue to submit designs today. We want to share all the great work done over the weekend, and that KARIM LOVES ALL THE DOPE DESIGNS.
ADD TO THE KAJ COLLECTION
Last week we designed the WATCHDOG as an ironic tribute to the KAJ watch that was destroyed by our favorite dog MANDU. What remained is the watchface, so we designed this holder for it. Check out the project here.
Today, we ask all you amazing designers out there to design a version of your own. One of our buddies did the "Whale,of a time." We want to see what you come up with.
Download the watch CAD here. Comment or email us your designs as they come here.
One more thing. Here are a design criteria.
1. HAVE A FUCKING CLEVER NAME!!! that's all. HAVE FUN. LOVE CS BROS.
Good listening adam vida - "tomorrow land"
A beautiful piece from our friends Adam, Mikos, L and Sam. Give this a listen if you enjoy good ol' hip-hop and great story telling.
MUSE work in progress
talented or obsessed
"THERE'S NO TALENT HERE, THIS IS HARD WORK. THIS IS AN OBSESSION. TALENT DOES NOT EXIST, WE ARE ALL EQUAL AS HUMAN BEINGS. YOU COULD BE ANYONE IF YOU PUT IN THE TIME. YOU WILL REACH THE TOP, AND THAT IS THAT. I AM NOT TALENTED, I AM OBSESSED."
AF1 scribbles
PROGRESS
"FAILURE DEFEATS LOSERS BUT INSPIRES WINNERS."
If your drawings suck, keep drawing. If your renderings suck, keep rendering. If your projects suck, keep working.
Aimé LEON DORE: SHERPA HOODIE
Another beautiful piece from one of our favorite brands. Well worth the two month wait.
Break Bread DTL
Hopped into a rental and drove down to south to support the homie Keith Magruder's "Break Bread" show in LA. Here is a time-lapse of the whole weekend. Enjoy it. The show is up until March 13th make sure you head over to Think Tank Gallery to check out the work.