The Flight Mode

Thoughts based on daily observations

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Petit Market | nendo | 2021 |

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Face Shield | Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah | 2020 |

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Safeefah x Clay | Pepa Reverter and Abdallah Al Mulla | 2019 |

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MOBILE PPS (Personal Protective Space) for Doctors | Plastique Fantastique | 2020 |

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Feel The Peel | Carlo Ratti Associati | 2019 |

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Animal-Free Roncalli Circus | Circus-Theater Roncalli | 2019 |

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Soba Trestle | Stefan Diez | 2015

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Crust | Raw Edges | 2019

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It’s Flare Digest #90 yay! Role of designers

“designers should focus on being good teammates rather than leaders. Worrying too much about whether design has enough influence over a product or a company distracts from the real vision: making great products that solve people’s problems” (John Maeda)

https://www.fastcompany.com/90320120/john-maeda-in-reality-design-is-not-that-important

Undoubtedly designers have seen how the discipline has evolved along these years and in parallel to how society has been ‘evolving’.  As it's natural, when evolution occurs, we end up with -at least- 3 roles:  The old, the transition, and the new.

-  The old has been well described by Maeda, “Beautiful industrial design means nothing when paired with poor engineering”

-  The transition involves designers who are investigating what else is out there, what other tools and skills can be adopted.  Design that understands its humanized function, the so hipped term ‘Human-Centered Design’

-  The new resides in the academies, in all new creatives who are facing new challenges and experimenting with new environments to understand ways to generate a positive change.

But neither an old, transition or new design should be detached from social value.  And to be social implies a) Face a community in the search for solutions, and b) Bring a multidisciplinary team who, understanding the root problem, produce these solutions without any particular discipline ego.

Who is in your team nowadays?

What role are you playing in your team?

How is your team facing ‘design’? https://design.co/dit2019-v007/#1

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Living Seawall | Volvo, Sydney Institute of Marine science, Reef Design Lab | 2019 |

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See the latest delivery innovation from Domino's. The DomiCopter - taking deliveries to new heights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on4DRTUvst0

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MARS Case | Open Architecture & Xiaomi | 2018 |

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Survival Foods (Chicken Stew) | Sei Enterprise Inc | 2016 |

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Brizi | Pollution monitoring and air purifier for babies | Map | 2017 |

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Twisted Chair | Ward Wijnant | 2018 |

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Skeleton | Nendo X Valerie Objects | 2018 |

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Virtual Eyes | Jaguar Land Rover | 2018 |