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• Commented on Copyright | Social | Shannen Pickens
  Another addition to this analysis could be the world of patents. As designers, many of us will probably butt up against patent law in our careers. As far as I understand, patent law is extremely complicated and patent-minded design is...
• Commented on Pleasure / Environmental / Laura Anderson
  In response to Jenny's comment, I certainly believe that as a culture, we get pleasure out of following trends. It has been well documented that shopping can be a powerful aphrodisiac for certain people, and almost every trend involves purchasing...
• Commented on Mud Bowl '93 - Children | Personal | Paul Carroll
  Ha! This is awesome. I still play in an adult wiffle ball league every summer and we chalk in the diamond and envision the stands and all of that, too, because it makes it so much more fun to actually...
• Commented on Lucy Michell | Financial | Appeal
  No way! That thing is perfect for your "brand", Lucy Michelle. I've got to wonder where that workshop that Cooper is toiling away in is located. Is it a Co-Op shop maybe? Pretty sweet regardless. Your post is great because...
• Posted Health | Other | Brendan Ryan to DHA 4365W
  Design Thinking and the River of Problems Lets face it. This last year has been a difficult one to endure for those of us that consider ourselves idealists. Hope and change have been bogged down by the political process, and...
• Posted Health | Environmental | Brendan Ryan to DHA 4365W
  Design is the key to maintaining a healthy environment in this world. People that have ideas with a bit of a conspiratorial slant and grounded economic theorists alike understand that it is going to be hard for energy companies...
• Commented on Pollution // Personal // Tessa Jonson
  Some of the most exciting designs in the world are happening in the clean energy industry. Take a look at tidal generators. They are like underwater wind turbines, and the estimate is that there is exponentially more energy potential from...
• Posted Health | Social | Brendan Ryan to DHA 4365W
  Building off of my last post on this blog, I feel like I should discuss the substantial effect that design can have on a society's mores and outlook. In the last post, I discussed how every aspect of an object...
• Posted Health | Personal | Brendan Ryan to DHA 4365W
  Let's say my life depended on it -- say, I'm a character in some bizarre existential Czechoslovakian novel -- and I had to quickly put a label on my ideological stance in this world or be killed, I would say...