Ideas generation - how to.

Amazing creativity, but if this person was supposed to be coming up with ideas for something else - major procrastination!

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

Living in small spaces

I found this whilst trawling the internet for flexible space design precedence.

And how about this for compact living!

How your environment can change your attitudes

Birmingham Interiors Show

The massive Interiors Show at Birmingham NEC is coming up between the 24th and 27th of this month (January 2010). The show occupies five massive halls covering loads of interiors products including new designs from Designers Block London exhibition, New Design Britain - featuring this year’s hottest young design talent in furnishing, lighting, soft furnishing and accessories and most importantly the award winners of the Student Lighting competition including the winner and therefore young lighting designer of the year: Beth Jackson!

Look out for Beth and her innovative extending LED pendent light at the Lighting Association Stand in the lighting section of Hall 3 and get involved in her latest lighting project for her final year project. Go to www.bethjacksondesign.co.uk for more details...

BMW fabric car

I found this ages ago whilst looking through youtube, but I think its amazing, though might be a bother to wash!

Next Step

Thank you to all those that I spoke to in the last week and who answered questions for adaptive spaces. I will be publishing the main points of the research so far on here after it has been analysed.

The next step is that I will be generating concepts soon and once I have some that I think perhaps solve some of the problems and needs of home life, I will email these to you for your approval. The aim is to get at least one final prototype that works well and can fit seamlessly into the home for a better experience of life in the ways that you want it. Therefore your participation is critical to a sound outcome. Please don't abandon me!

To get involved, simply send me your email address, which I promise not to share with any third parties, and I will personally send you my design concepts for analysis.

If you know of anybody else who might like to take part please tell them about Adaptive Spaces at willhalldesign.co.uk.

This should be an exciting journey for all of us.

Thanks

Will

iTunes U

Apple launched iTunes U a while back as part of the iTunes store, but I have only recently discovered it for myself. iTunes U is a mixture between YouTube and Wikipedia providing audio and video as a source for education. Whether they didn't have it or that I just couldn't find it, I have only recently come across design as one of the many areas covered in this giant library. I have enjoyed looking at the ways that other people work and the ingenious things that they have come up with. The iTunes store is certainly worth checking out, now offering not only music, but video, tv and education. If you don't have iTunes you can download it free from the apple site: www.apple.com/itunes/download/