Anne et valentin

요새 사고 싶은 안경이 하나 생겼습니다.

 

Anne et Valentin 이라는 프랑스 브랜드 인데 뿔떼가 참 이쁩니다.

 

호피무늬의 테인데 제가 본 뿔테중에서는 세련되면서도 감각있는테 같아서 지르고 싶네요~ ㅋㅋ

 

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PixelPad — 'Ambient-lit 9.7-inch matte screen multi-sketch display'

I wonder if the Cupertino lawyerbots consider stuff like this within their scope or whether it's innocuous enough to slip under the Cease and Desist radar.

From the website:

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PixelPad

 

Supports milliions of colors, diagrams, sketches, languages and characters simultaneously.

Wireless — works anywhere in the world.

Unlimited functional life.

Now shipping.

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$24.

몰스킨 vs Maker's Note

매년 들고 다니는 노트로 몰스킨 플레인 라지 노트를 사용하는데, 이제 Make 잡지에서 나오는 maker's note도 고려 해봐야겠다. 가격적으로도 더 싼거 같고 내부 oganization도 더 나은거 같은데..

몰스킨 플레인 라지 가격 26,400원

$19.99

Look, it's not an iPad! It's the Maker's Notebook!! No need to stand in line to purchase one, nor to engage in debate with tech pundits about its closed ecosystem. David Letterman is highly unlikely to come to your house and lick it. (No guarantee implied.)

From the creators of MAKE magazine comes the Maker's Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations, and notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions, and more, to really useful stuff like the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages and how to say "Hello, World!" in various computer languages. The covers of this hardcover book are printed in cyan "Maker" blue with a white grid debossed front and back.

Features:

• Notebook are 1/8" engineering graph paper.
• Pages are numbered.
• Every page has a blank heading to list project name, date, sign or note, and a place to link project/related pages ("From Page___, to Page___).
• There's also a two-page ruled Table of Contents.
• # Featuring a pocket in the back, with 2 sheets of stickers.
• # Dimensions: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" x 1/2"

Grab one today in the Maker Shed!

undercoverism BackPacks

사고 싶은 백팩이 나왔네..

이쁘다. ㅎㅎ

 

Undercoverism have released these new backpacks for their accessories
section. The bags are made up of a mixture of leather, polyurethane, and
nylon material and have a high technical design appearance. They come
in green, black, and white and is now available at Zozo.

Via SwipeLife

LG전자 넷하드 NC1 - N2R1DD2 (2TB) 사용기

회사 사무실에서 그동안 작업해둔 파일들을 백업하기 위해 고심끝에 마련한 제품.

 

엘지 넷하드 NC1- N2R1DD2 (2TB) 제품.

 

원래 USB타입의 외장하드를 여러개 살려다가 개인적으로 넷하드를 한번 사용해보고 싶어서 구입한 제품이다.

 

연결하는데 시간이 오래걸리지 않았지만

새로운 인터페이스를 익히는데 사용설명서의 내용만 보고서는 좀 힘들었지만,

일단 전원부터 넣고 보는 나 로선 직접 경험해보면서 배우는게 젤 편했다.

 

전원 넣고 동봉된 CD로 프로그램 설치후에 네트워크에 물리니 금세 잡았다.

 

2Tera 바이트를 각각 1Tera 바이트씩해서 두하드에 자동으로 백업해주는 기능도 있지만, 그냥 2Tera를 다 사용하고 싶어서 볼륨설정은 각각 하고 포맷시작..

 

한 20분뒤에 설정이 완료되고 첫 접속을

해보니 와.... 속도 엄청빠르네..

 

일단 첫 인상은 대 만족..

 

무엇보다 DVD가 달려있어 백업해둔 내용을 손쉽게 DVD로 백업하는 기능이 있는게 정말 맘에 든다.

 

우리같이 디자인은 하는 사람들에게는

정말 꼭 필요한 제품인듯..

 

그리고 젤 강추 하는 기능은 FTP설정으로 웹하드로도 쓸수 있다는 점..

 

밖에 돌아다니다가도 내 하드에 있는 내용이 필요하면 인터넷으로 접근하여 데이터에 접근이 가능하다.

 

앞으로 넷하드가 널리 보급되면 아마 국내 웹하드 기업들은 다 문 닫게 될거 같다.

 

한가지 아쉬운점은 뒤쪽 포트에 USB 연결하는 포트가 있어서 랜선으로 연결이 불가능할때 USB라도 연결이 되었으면 하는것이다.

 

 

 

 

Rhodia Mouse Pad Paper Pad

로디아에서 출시한 마우스 패드..

나한테 꼭 필요할 듯..

 

메모나 스케치 하기 딱 좋은 로디아 종이.... 강추합니다.

그런데 구입할 곳은 어디지? ㅎ

 

 

The mouse pad doubles as a note pad, a good idea!  The Rhodia Mouse Pad($6.5) uses the note pad..(more...)

Buckyballs

잼있는 장난감이 나왔네요.

 

아래 동영상을 보면 사고 싶어 할듯.. ㅎㅎ

 

 

 

Buckyballs got a new packaging. Look! Trust me, they are totally addictive, once you get your fingers on them.

 

 

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Hard Graft 3Fold Bag

오 정말 사고 싶은 백팩? 이 나왔네요..

어디서 파는거지? 나한테 꼭 필요한 물품인듯...

 

NOTCOT Exclusive!!! From our awesome friends at Hard Graft ~ they have been kind enough to share it with us first! Check out their latest bag, the 3Fold! It can play portfolio case, laptop case, AND overnighter... ready for the juicy details? (I'm loving this new one! So tempted by it!)

"3FOLD multi-use leather laptop bag - Three bags in one - the 3FOLD is a slim LAPTOP BAG, a sizable A2 PORTFOLIO BAG and a spacious OVERNIGHTER. Just switch to the configuration you need, this bag is as flexible as your lifestyle demands. The function of this bag speaks volumes. Clever hooks (traditionally used for heavy duty hiking boots) make varying between the different styles possible. The 3FOLD is handmade from a bespoke vegetable tanned Italian leather which is dyed through and hand finished in grey with a hint of teal. This is juxtaposed with a chestnut brown leather shoulder strap which can be used in all three configurations. The leathers are coloured with natural dyes which enhance the look over time and use. Each limited edition 3FOLD is individually numbered and carefully assembled by a family of leather artisans in the rolling hills of Tuscany, Italy."

Take a peek at pics and specs on the next page!

TO PAGE 2 of "Hard Graft 3Fold Bag"! ----->

Tag Heuer’s Limited Edition Monaco V4 Watch

Tag Heuer has released the Tag Heuer Monaco V4 Watch, the world’s first belt-driven, ball bearing timepiece. To be released in a limited run of 150 units, this revolutionary wrist watch is available for 55,000 Euros on the market. The mechanics on this thing are truly amazing, a system never before seen in a watch like this. More at TheCoolist.

<Book> Change by Design, by Tim Brown

IDEO CEO Tim Brown의 새로운 책.. 

 

About halfway through Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, Tim Brown repeats Tom Peter's much cited comment that "the MFA is the new MBA." In doing so, however, he doesn't fully endorse the sentiment. Instead Brown observes that the dynamic skills required in business share as much in common with the creativity required for a design practice as they do with the critical thinking required for the MBA. On the back of the book jacket the author observes, "this is not a book by designers for designers, this is a book for creative leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization." In that way it straddles the gulf between the MFA and the MBA. Clearly learning to draw is a far sight from learning how to run a discounted cash flow analysis and the skill set doesn't overlap. We need both MFAs and MBAs. But the crux of what Brown is getting at is what McKinsey & Company referred to as the "T-Shaped" person, where the vertical axis represents the depth of the skill set that forms their core competency. Valuable design thinkers, however, "cross the T," holding not only deep familiarity with their core role, but also a disposition for collaboration across enterprises. A "design thinker" isn't just an artist and isn't just a number-cruncher. Instead they need to be knowledgeable enough about each to be conversant: to be a member not of a multidisciplinary team but of an interdisciplinary team.

If this all sounds a little like business-jargon-tinged self-help ... well, it is. Business books tend to be written in a peculiar dialect somewhere between anecdote and allegory, and Change by Design is no exception. Perhaps owing to the Harvard Business School case method, it seems de rigeur in business books these days to present lessons as anecdotes about business interactions (e.g. Shimano's core business of bicycle sprockets and derailleurs was flattening) followed an analysis of the market and the causes of said shift. At the "B-School" the initial case would be followed by rigorous debate and a written analysis of what the company should do to change its position. In Change by Design, the reader learns what solutions IDEO reached (e.g. returning to the comfort and familiarity of coasting bikes from childhood). Regardless of the success of that coasting initiative, however, the real lesson is in the allegory as Brown provides that proves the centerpiece of the book: "The reason for the iterative, nonlinear nature of the journey is not that design thinkers are disorganized or undisciplined but that design thinking is an exploratory process; done right, it will inevitably make unexpected discoveries along the way, and it would be foolish not to find out where they lead." Reading that, then, perhaps industrial designers should be thrilled; the processes that we learned for "needsfinding" and "directed research" truly are akin to the case method. Perhaps that's what Peters was getting at after all.

But if Tim Brown was right, and this isn't a book "by designers for designers," what can we get out of it? The rigorous analytic thinking that MBAs learn in finance classes isn't presented here. Instead we see the softer/touchier side of "inspiration, ideation, implementation" of which long-time prototypers and experimenters should already be aware. IDEO, however, has managed to out-business corporate America through design, so perhaps there's something to be learned here. Ultimately, the difference between design and art is commerce and function, so most designers will eventually need to reach out or at least speak to corporate America. Through his years as CEO of IDEO, Brown knows as well as anyone how to communicate with suits ... even if he has an MFA. Consequently, while we (designers) may not be the target audience for the book, there is certainly something to be learned here for us to "cross the T" and speak to MBAs.

The first half of the book consists of multiple cases, from HBO to Marriott, that are all used to illustrate two core concepts: (1) The "design brief" and its inherent constraints make the design and (2) all design is "human centered" design, even if the people interviewed can't articulate their concerns. Some anecdotes are stronger than others. For us to hear about Kristian Simsarian strapping a camera below his hospital gown and experiencing a hospital visit at the SSM DePaul Health Center on a gurney should be enough to send most designers out into the field. Other commentary, like how Brown thinks it's important to let workers know that it's OK to fail seems like something that would be pinned to Dilbert's cubicle wall, however true it may be. That said, Brown throws out a lot of concepts and a lot of anecdotes. Some are bound to stick for each reader. As he observed about Linus Pauling's statement "To have a good idea, you must first have lots of ideas," well, Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes.

The early portion of the book struggles with the stifling realities of the corporate American workplace, even unintentionally demonstrating how binding cubicle life can be. Upon learning that a company like Mattel needed to create a "retreat" so that cross disciplinary employees can have a "fun" space in which to collaborate, this reader wondered couldn't help but wonder if it was that hard to have fun at a toy company, the rest of corporate America must be in trouble. Clearly the MFA is more fun than the MBA, but the MBA drives the world, ... and the economy. Perhaps there's something horribly ill about corporate America and that's what Brown is getting at. Either way, many of the case studies, even in their success, should serve as cautionary tales about the nature of corporate structure. Those of us who get our hands dirty, either with actual dirt and grease or with hot glue and Chartpak markers should be happy.

In the second half of the book called "Design Thinking Meets the Corporation," Brown begins to tackle enormous, near-insurmountable problems. From treating Procter & Gamble's ability to help housewives better clean their bathrooms in the early chapters, he lurches into the "big issues." A short story illustrating Oral-B's successful product launch of a toothbrush designed for the small and awkward hands of children, suddenly turns into an environmental parable when the lead designer of the toothbrush found one washed up on a beach in Mexico largely intact. Although not discussed in detail in the book, IDEO has shifted focus in recent years to pay more attention to global human problems, and that's a good thing. In the early pages, Brown talks about how important it is to have a well structured design brief in order to better frame the problem. In the latter pages, he even tackles the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals like "Eradicating extreme poverty." After a short admission that statement is too broad to form an effective design brief, he reframes it immediately as a series of more specific initiatives like: "How might we enable poor farmers to increase the productivity of their land through simple, low-cost products and services?" These are not simple questions, but as Charles Eames responded, when asked how whether he came up with his lounge chair in a flash of insight, replied yes, "a kind of 30-year flash." With people like Brown codifying design thinking, the tools are out there to solve our problems if a few people are willing to attack them with that sort of tenacity.