Day 1 - 09/02/21

Overview

1. Github Juxtapix wiki
2. Digi-fab time conflicts with the shop
3. Chindogu
   1. playful and whimsical approach to learning industrial design
4. Artistic Practice
   1. Feedack loop of human potential and technology

Chindogu

1. Kenji Kawakami
2. New-wave unnecessarily inventions
   1. form vs. the functionality
3. Historical absurd inventions for function
   1. dimple maker
   2. horizontal reading glasses
   3. butter in a stick
   4. teleyeglasses - 1963
   5. portable radio in a straw hat
      1. exploring functionality that the general populace "would/should" utilize
4. Find the obsession of an era, a trend in a zeitgeist
5. Natasha Jen - Pentagram
   1. Design thinking is bullshit
      1. Definition: Packages and codifies the creative process to make it so that "anyone" can become a designer
   2. 1969 - 1992 → Popularization
6. Virgil Abloh - Off-White, Ikea
   1. Iterations of Ikea furniture with popular absurdist interior design
7. Allan Wexler
   1. A chair a day
   2. two for one purposes
   3. always make a model or actually build it

Absurd

1. Thinking
2. Forms
3. Functions
4. Interactions