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CCA's Design Strategy MBA.

Interesting. California College of the Arts now offers an MBA in Design Strategy: The innovative MBA in Design Strategy, which will enroll its first class of students in fall 2008, unites the studies of design, finance, and organizational management in a unique curriculum aimed at providing students with tools and

Digital Paper. Trippy.

Whoa. Check this out. We met with a woman today who’s doing research around digital interfaces for learning technologies such as this one. But a Swedish startup called Anoto has developed a new approach. A few weeks ago in Boston, I met an Italian named Nino Tarantino, who is

I want one! Well, actually, two.

See this chair? I love it and I want two for our dining area. Possibly more once we move into a bigger space. It’s designed by Karim Rashid. Now I just have to convince Will; I’m much more an admirer of modern design than is he.

On loving Frederick, part two.

Looking south toward Seattle from a sailboat near the shores of Gasworks Park. Photo by Callie Neylan, 2011. On July 23, 2011, I recited these design stories at the Boston Globe for my friends at Ink, stories inspired by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted and the impact his legacy

No design is good design.

Last semester, I taught a course on visualizing information at MICA. I used Tufte's first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative information. I love Tufte. I love his simple, Swiss modern approach to design. His strict belief in form following function. His unwavering defense of content and firm

On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.

I often telling people designing for Excel is more like urban design than anything else. Because like a city, big software is a messy, chaotic system that is constantly evolving with millions of opinionated inputs by passionate, feeling, needy inhabitants and feisty, exuberant, competent and just as often, incompetent (but

Cool interface.

A great Flash interface at Design Within Reach (browse one of the catalogs). Found while looking for folding inspiration for the household vessel I’m creating for my industrial design class….

Worthy architecture.

originally uploaded by Neylano. "A development which spoils ten square miles of countryside will be the work of a few people neither particularly sinful nor malevolent. They may be called Derek or Malcolm, Hubert or Shigeru, they may love golf and animals, and yet, in a few weeks, they

Modeled after Paris.

It wasn’t until after we’d walked past the mall that a friend we were having dinner with told us that DC was modeled after Paris. I had just remarked to Will and Michaela on our way to the restaurant that the view of the Washington Monument from that

On Whisky-Centered Design: Designing the Glencairn Whisky Glass

TASTING whiskies can be a clinical, prosaic task, nosing and assessing, jotting notes, reconsidering, lips compressed in concentration, brow furrowed. Yet, as the spirits panel tasted 20 single malts from Islay, we reminded ourselves to step back a moment, to contemplate with no small amount of awe the magic of