> Getting emotional with leading design experts
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Lorraine Justice
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Head of Design School
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Martin J. Beck
CloverLeaf Group
CEO
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Robert Blaich
Blaich Associates
Founder & President
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John Barratt
Teague
President and CEO
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Patrick W. Jordan
Contemporary Trends Institute
Author, speaker, consultant
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Pieter Desmet
Delft University of Technology
Assistant Professor
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Chris Bangle
BMW
Chief Design BMW Group
> Opinion and updates
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Hotel Cram (Barcelona) colours its façade with website-user generated emotions
November 25, 2007The website of hotel Cram lets users express their emotions through personalized emoticons, which are then used as statistical information to colour the hotel’s façade. An interactive experience, developed by Barcelona based Nopiun.
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Design & Emotion Conference 2008 website launched
November 16, 2007Preceding the exciting new conference that the Design & Emotion Society organizes in collaboration with the School of Design and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the conference website has been launched. Please keep a close eye on this website the coming months!
> Leading designers share their passion
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Creating Emotional Impact Through Vision
Juliane Trummer (Research & Strategy Manager at Teague)What has always fascinated me most about industrial design is its thematic complexity, touching on a broad range of fascinating topics that all relate to the human being, bringing together a wide range of problems and questions from different disciplines. Some of these disciplines are scientific and lend themselves to relative “objectiveness”. Other disciplines are difficult to quantify or are not quantifiable at all; they are abstract and relate back to basic questions about human existence such as identity & change, space & time, religion & spirituality, mind & matter.
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Total Beautiful
Roger Jackson (Industrial Designer at Teague)During my time at the London-based Samsung design studio, a colleague and I coined the phrase ‘total beautiful’. It was a phrase we gave to designs we felt were beautiful from any angle or perspective. It came about as we were admiring the Eames side chair in our office. The beautifully crafted and flowing formed seat is elegantly poised on metal Eiffel frame legs - a truly iconic aesthetic that is not merely skin deep. Matched with equal flare and function, it is an extremely controlled, engineered and ergonomically comfortable chair.
