Here’s some seriously behind-the-scenes industrial design stuff: A company called IndexSAR , which specializes in testing out wireless systems, needed a model of a human hand to stick a cell phone into. For the purposes of their testing parameters, it was determined that the hand model needed to be made out of carbon black, a material that absorbs radio waves put out by cell phones. The problem with this, as described by Vince O’Horo, Director of Industrial Design Consultancy’s modelmaking branch : “Carbon black is a difficult substance to work with.
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? Graphic design is a vast field and its bounds are nearly limitless. Similarly, there are no limits to the degree of creativity of a graphic designer
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The Tecnomatix product called Jack isn’t just a single virtual guy; it’s a software package of, giggles aside, anatomically correct and scalable human figures that can be dropped into virtual environments for “human prototyping.” The software is smart enough that you can assign Jack a task, whether it’s driving a forklift, stacking tires or moving boxes around inside a space capsule filled with other bodies, and assess his performance to hammer out the human factors issues of your designs. Can he reach the far side of the dashboard?
Continue Reading →The Tecnomatix product called Jack isn’t just a single virtual guy; it’s a software package of, giggles aside, anatomically correct and scalable human figures that can be dropped into virtual environments for “human prototyping.” The software is smart enough that you can assign Jack a task, whether it’s driving a forklift, stacking tires or moving boxes around inside a space capsule filled with other bodies, and assess his performance to hammer out the human factors issues of your designs.
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[ By Marc in Travel & Places . ] A trip to the pool or beach is practically mandatory to beat the summer heat, and dragging the same dented bucket for playing in the sand, and swinging the typical ratty towel over your shoulder, just gets old
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The IDSA has released some more information about their upcoming 2010 conference (August 4–7) and its DIY theme. They’ve have six dicussion topic themes all exploring the link between DIY and industrial design: Enabling Technologies The rise and spread of technologies that enable individuals to design and create with a scale and sophistication once available only to corporations.
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This tutorial was written for Issue 176 of Computer Arts magazine. You can see an image of the tutorial in print here . When creating a new brand identity, it’s important to ensure your design is unique and one way to ensure this, is to either create your own font or modify an existing one
Continue Reading →This tutorial was written for Issue 176 of Computer Arts magazine. You can see an image of the tutorial in print here .
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