Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Notes on Podcast (International Design Forum-Dubai)

~ Interview with Luke Williams, Frog design
~ Focused on Middle eastern
~ Dubai is borrowing western notions of design, haven't found a language of their own.
~ Trying to incorporate their own designs.
~ Thought of as a culture just starting to embrace design.
~ Started building fast and now are thinking about individual design.
~ Designer said: Design should be contemporary, never look back to the past.
~ Designer said: Steal and give back, take idea from past and rework it into something contemporary.
~ Rapid development with no thought or planning.
~ Like Sim City in real life.
~ Designers gave advice to Dubai to use there own influence to design. (simple and elegant garments)
~ Barriers against upcoming designers in the culture.
~ Design to shape and influence human behavior.

1 comment:

Jangrrrrl said...

Good job, Anne. You got some of the major nuggets of information that I was hoping you all would catch. Interesting, huh?