So what’s next? After a nail-biter of a month of interviews and waiting, I was finally offered an engineering/manufacturing/get-shit-done internship with CRAVE [NSFW], a luxury sex toy startup in the throes of launching their first product. It’s been just about a week now and without any long-term responsibilities I still feel adrift, but I’ve been… Continue reading CRAVE
Month: November 2011
“All the other kids with the pumped up kicks better run, better run . . .”
I’m sorry, Los Angeles, you let me down. I was braced for the snooty girls with too much foundation, the endless stop-and-go traffic; I had prepared myself for the extra effort it would take to meet people. But I was not ready for the overwhelming isolation and inaccessibility of steamy urban sprawl. Apparently a good… Continue reading “All the other kids with the pumped up kicks better run, better run . . .”
“Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.”
Principle of Design #3: Good design is aesthetic The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful. – Dieter Rams The SF Museum of Modern Art is currently hosting the “Less and More” traveling… Continue reading “Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.”