Blog of Steven Sloan | Digital & Physical Design: Archive

design As designers we should strive to be ‘creators of meaning’ instead of ‘creators of materiality’. Meaning is created through responding to people and their physical and emotional needs not through surface level aesthetics. sustainability Sustainability is becoming an increasingly difficult word to use effectively. The market is becoming a breeding ground of...

Mar 31st

❝ In seeking a moral equivalent of consumerism it is our challenge to use our capabilities to awaken the higher ranges of each person’s spiritual energy, and to produce objects and communications that are filled with value. Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Ultimately, I’m not sure there is any other choice. ❞via: Hugh Graham

Mar 31st

you might notice the new them I’ve got up and running. Check out the links up top. A problem with the update: I went ahead and upgraded to 500 px width photos….in doing so any old manually coded photos will not match the new ones widths. Thanks to topherchris for providing a theme to mess around with.

Mar 31st

I hate coding….but I’m doing it anyway. Look for updates soon.

Mar 30th

You will notice you can no longer get my previous resume, it has been updated. You can now feel free to look at my resume and portfolio. My full contact info and/or a full resolution portfolio are available….just shoot me an email.

Mar 30th

❝ fix in space the bits you need, then work around those ❞unknown design instructor

Mar 30th

This just in, my diet is the single most environmentally harming aspect of my life. Oh but I do love my meat.

Mar 29th

Mar 28th

❝ The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them ❞Albert Einstein

Mar 27th

You may remember this cup of coffee. After having another cup on another trip through the Copenhagen airport I found out what makes the unique low contrast rosetta. Instead of putting the powder in with the shot of espresso, the milk is mixed to make chocolate milk before it is steamed and poured in the cup.

Mar 27th

Its 5:15 am, the sun is coming up and the snow is sticking around. [from yesterday]

Mar 27th

While waiting for tumblr to stop sucking and let me upload some photos. [such a rare occurrence, I’ll forgive it] I will bring your attention to a disturbing quote. [warning: rant beginning] ❝ The government itself has calculated that around 2000 people a year are killed because of those CAFÉ standards and our cheerful government has just voted to increase them, to make cars lighter,...

Mar 27th

Watch

If you’ve got three minutes to kill and want to watch me sketch something…go for it. Thanks to the New Frontiers for musical motivation.

Mar 27th

resume

we’ll consider this a bit of a test. this is my resume as it stands now. You should be able to download it if you like. edit: changed the file to get rid of address & cell

Mar 26th

food for thought

gravitysleeps: experience > aesthetics The question though is where does experience and aesthetics collide? Aesthetics effect the visual perception of an object and in turn the experience. That said, aesthetics as a hollow endeavor is unfortunately a common perception of ID and needs to be fought whole-heartily.

Mar 25th

This is a bit of a hodge-podge [sp?] of a post, but why split things up when there is no reason. tea musings Yes once again I am writing about tea and sweetening it with chunk [or comb-in] honey. I’ve been drinking it like a madman lately due to a heinous head-cold I’ve developed. [I blame this post] and have been noticing new things with each sip. The new discovery? Well as soon as...

Mar 25th

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travisekmark: ❝ Coming across what Dr. Biederman calls new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it. …It is something we seem hard-wired to do, says Dr. Biederman. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. ❞ WSJ, Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing...

Mar 15th

Mar 14th

Recently I purchased a comb-inn pot of honey to sweeten my tea and have noticed something extraordinary in cup. The wax that is left in the honey melts into small floating beads that slowly rise to the surface. The timing is very sensitive as the wax only melts went the very close to boiling, if you do not sweeten the tea soon enough you only get a selection of flakes at the surface.

Mar 13th

Mar 12th

❝ You cannot do good design without being able to describe your objective for bringing a new design into the world ❞Travis Ekmark

Mar 11th

a list 1. Fondue 2. Hibachi Grill 3. Coffee 4. Beer Why? good question, this is for an undisclosed project and I found the combination humorous after making the list.

Mar 11th

I have found I have a split personality when it comes to design beliefs. I appreciate beauty for the sake of beauty, but I also cannot support a product that dose not fulfill its function well. My only thought is that these two areas co-exist in my mind as beauty’s sole purpose is the enrichment of lives and in this it fulfills its function.

Mar 11th

travisekmark: ❝ i do think the table is a centre of friendships and will always remember to invite friends in around the table. the table is a piece of architecture that functions as a shrine for friendships. ❞Marcel Wanders

Mar 10th

I have been spelling ‘educated’ with a j [edjucated] all day. I have no idea why.

Mar 10th