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Slow Design Principle After looking into some information, there is a product that I think is interesting. Karoto which is like a pencil sharpener is a tool for peeling carrots. It is a vegetable peeler and curler though it looks like a pencil sharpener. This can refer to the “slow design principle 1: reveal.” A…

by Carlos Cuevas Upon researching projects that incorporated slow design principles, I came across artist Julian Bleecker. Bleecker is known for his considerable achievement in developing innovative mobile technology and art. I found two of his projects that include principles of slow design: WiFi.ArtCache and WiFi.Bedouin. WiFi.ArtCache is simply a small-range network that brings people…

Colour Chaser- Yuri Suzuki Reveal and participate are two principles of ‘Slow Design’ which Yuri Suzuki incorporates in his project “Colour Chaser”. Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of of sound through exquisetly designed pieces. Most of Suzuki’s projects combine both visual and sound concepts…

I first decided to analyze the video we saw in class, the ‘Touch Wood’ commercial. The video is a wooden ball going down a wooden block path, and each time the ball bounces, the connection between the two would make a musical note. The ball would roll down this long path, and it would make…

One of the design projects that fit into the six design principles and that I was impressed about was the Pit-Art in Public Space. Amongst this project the two artwork by different designers were, Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, and Florentijn Hofman. In the design project that Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh did…

Immediately after reading “Priniciple 1: Reveal”in Carolyn F. Strauss’s and Alastair Fuad-Luke’s “The Slow Design Principles,” the new iPhone came to mind. It was when I read the part about materials and methods being overlooked that made me think of the iPhone 5 and eventually just Apple in general. On Apple’s website there is a video…

The first design project that really intrigued me was Tyranny of the Plug by Dick Van Hoff. These are various kitchen machines that perform actions of chopping, blending, or churning with the use of electricity. In this particular design project, it uses no electricity, and instead, it uses human energy. This fits into the slow…

Student: Ashley Villagrana Teacher: Sabrina Raaf Class: Intro to responsive arts Called the Pythagora Switch is a educational television program that airs on television. Shows the number one principal in the Slow Design principles, which is to participate. They displayed what they call interactive physical properties that we normally in everyday life can see. This…

While researching different works that use Slow Design Principles, I found a project titled     Amazingness by Anna Hillman. Amazingness, a collection of photographs taken throughout London, was Hillman’s way of presenting the sublimity and “amazingness” of nature in urban life. Through this project, Hillman captures several Slow Design Principles, particularly revealing experiences in…

I originally was going to do something different. however that fell through. so when i remembered the showing of the tic tac light, it inspired me do make it one step further, while also coming up with y own creative light switch, phone jacks. Supplies: 1 Hot wheels Car 2 LED lights, choice of colors,…