Initial thesis title explorations
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Sade Olutola

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YOU ARE THE REASON

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KIROKAZE
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Jules of Nature
Peter Solarz
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

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NASA
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
we're not kids anymore.
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seen from Singapore
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Initial thesis title explorations
Thesis Beginning
Thesis Beginning
Digital factory.
Final manifestation and handout
Box the display is mounted in doubles as safe transportation. This thing is super fragile...
Final manifestation mounted on a box that was painted to mildly resemble a conveyor belt. The economist cover transitions through the stages of creation before it manifests into the physical object.
1 Original illustration
2 Online trader
3 Online bureau
4 Physical object.
Printing out and laying out the miniature magazines and webpages. Got a little curve in a few of them using wire to help show the transition from digital to physical.
Simplifications of the 2 websites used to purchase and make the final model to be miniturised for the presentation.
Turning the chimney into a stamp. It took bit longer than I hoped, but it’s rock solid now. It works!
3D Print has arrived and assembled. Decided not to paint as it did not match anything to do with my manifesto. It’s all about removing the need for skill from making, and apparently to paint this would require a lot of skill I do not have..
Construction and painting the chimney to house my stamp. Massive industrial chimney, produces a digital QR code. Digital - Physical. It sums up the Third Industrial Revolution as simply as possible.
Final chimney design to be printed for the stamp. Soon i’ll have a miniature QR code producing factory to make my handouts.
Went ahead with getting the square QR code as a stamp. Switched to square layout last minute as it could be made much bigger for the same price. The square design immediately identifies it as a QR code. No ornamentation jumble.
Roundified QR code reads just as easily as the standard square equivalent.
Manifesto text. Please view manifesto at: louis-george.com/qrc
Manifesto for the Rebirth of Industrial Design in the Third Industrial Revolution.
The next Industrial Revolution has begun, marked by the democratisation of tools of creation, means of production, and infrastructure of distribution (Anderson, 2012). Industrial designers, no longer limited to traditional ideas of production of previous Industrial Revolutions, must embrace the new opportunities offered by the digital age, and rethink what it means to design and manufacture on a mass scale for a global market.
The Third Industrial Revolution offers an opportunity for the rebirth of industrial design - the role of the industrial designer is transforming into the role of design thinker as they apply their knowledge to a broader range of applications which lie within the synergy between...
Maker - Designer
Think collaboratively - Empower design over the designer.
The Maker Movement is industrialising the DIY spirit. Digital design, digital manufacture and digital distribution allow anyone to create, produce, and sell their own designs. This massive shift in power blurs the line between consumer and producer, amateur and professional. By constructing, creating and managing the infrastructure of creation, manufacture and distribution, the industrial designer can work at the intersection of creativity, culture and commerce, connecting Designers, Makers and Companies in this new democratised space (High, 2014).
Bespoke Mass Manufacture
Economies of scale no longer apply - Design beyond a ‘one size fits all’ mentality.
Production is no longer limited to traditional notions of unified manufacture. The world's factories are opening up as internet based services, offering on-demand digital manufacture to everyone (Bella, 2015). By removing specialised tooling and distribution costs, bespoke designs can now be manufactured at a price competitive to traditional mass manufacture.
Localised - Globalised
Manufacture is decentralising and the marketplace is centralising - Act locally on a global scale.
No longer limited to the offering of a single company, through distributed design consumers have access to a multitude of designers, tastes and styles, that better fit their niche. A design sold through the internet is immediately international, catering to global subcultures. Equally, local design applied to a global product offers cultural sustainability by allowing designers to localise production to suit the environments and cultures of the country of consumption.
Digital - Physical
Design and manufacture is digitising - Think beyond the product.
Industrial design is at the intersection of virtual and real. Anything that can be drawn digitally can be produced physically. No longer limited to the design and production of a product, industrial designers can now just as easily sell the digital design file or the means to design and the means to manufacture.
Artisan - Machine
Everyone can access the means of production - Embrace the machine as a tool of craft.
A skilled hand is no longer a prerequisite to craft as software and digital manufacture remove the need for mastery achieved over time. The role of the artisan transitioned into the role of the industrial designer through the uprise of the machine however the craft of the artisan can be recaptured by the industrial designer through mastery of the machine.
Conforming - Disruptive
Design must fit within our abilities but redefine our limitations and challenge our expectations
Final manifesto layout. Manifesto available at http://www.louis-george.com/qrc
Cut down original manifesto from 1000 words to a brief intro and 6 main points.