Design: Doodle 4 Google

Google is hosting a competition called Doodle 4 Google in partnership with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. They invited K-12 students to re-design the Google homepage logo around the theme "What I Wish for the World." Vote for the National Finalists here.

Chapter Reaction: Design

Please comment if you would like to share your overall impression/reaction to the chapter "Design."

Design

Daniel Pink says, "Design has become democratized." One example of this is the number of customizable products on the market today. Go to one of the following sites and play--"build your own" product:

• Create your own Nike sneaker


• Build your own Mini Cooper


• Customize a Harley-Davidson


• Create a custom L.L. Bean Boat & Tote Bag


• Design your own Flip video camera

After you have designed your own sneaker, car, motorcycle, tote bag, and/or video camera, return here and respond to the following:

Henry Ford once said, "People can have the Model T in any color--so long as it's black." What would Henry Ford think of the customizable products available to consumers today? What other parts of our world have become customized? How important is a customized product to you?

Design

Read Allison Arieff's "By Design" blog post "Designing Through a Depression" Read the comments as well. Some of the comments are contradictory to Dan Pink's feelings on design. How important is design to you?

Design

Check out ID Magazine's "Product of the Week" blog. (Make sure you click "Next" at the bottom of the page to see more designs.) Do any of these designs appeal to you? Why? Are any of these designs unappealing to you? Why?

Design

Keep your own design notebook. Think of Daniel Pink's Michael Graves toilet brush and look for examples of good design in your environment. Share what you are finding by either describing items that you are seeing in your environment OR sharing links of items you found online. Why do these items appeal to you? What is intriguing about their design? Which of Pink's senses do the items appeal to?